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Unilever In Advanced Talks To Merge Food Business With McCormick : Report

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Unilever is in advanced discussions to combine its food business with spice-maker McCormick, creating a new food giant; terms and valuation were not finalized in the report. If completed, the deal would be a major sector-level M&A event likely to move both companies' equity prices and reshape competitive dynamics, while attracting regulatory/antitrust scrutiny.

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Unilever is in advanced discussions to combine its food business with spice-maker McCormick, creating a new food giant; terms and valuation were not finalized in the report. If completed, the deal would be a major sector-level M&A event likely to move both companies' equity prices and reshape competitive dynamics, while attracting regulatory/antitrust scrutiny.

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