Blackstone and China’s Bright Food Group Plan Bid for GNC

Blackstone Group (BX) and Chinese food company Bright Food Group plan to bid for GNC Holdings, Bloomberg News reported.

The purchase of vitamin and nutrition-supplement retail chain GNC could be announced as soon this month, Bloomberg News said witho…

Pepsi to Take $3.8 Billion Stake in Russian Company

PepsiCo (PEP) will buy a 66% stake in Russian food and beverage company Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods for $3.8 billion.

The deal will make Pepsi the largest food and beverage company in Russia, the company said in a statement. It will also boost annual global…

Weight Watchers Unveils New Points Program

Weight Watchers International (WTW) unveiled the successor to its iconic calorie-counting Points program. The new PointsPlus program will not only identify the number of calories in a foodstuff but also favor food that the body works harder to convert …

Hormel Foods Reports Earnings of 90 Cents Per Share

Hormel Foods Corp. (HRL) reported earnings of 90 cents per share for the final quarter of fiscal 2010, compared with 77 cents per share a year earlier.

Sales rose 23% from a year earlier to $2.1 billion, the company said in a statement.

“We hit the…

Tyson Foods Reports Quarterly EPS of 57 Cents

Tyson Foods (TSN) reported earnings of 57 cents per share for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010, compared with a loss of $1.23 per share a year earlier.

The company reported goodwill impairment charges of 7 cents per share in the quarter, up from $1….