UK: Kraft handed Cadbury bid deadline
By: just-food.com | 30 September 2009
Kraft Foods has been set a deadline to make a formal offer for Cadbury or the US food giant will be forced to put any takeover ambitions on hold for six months.
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Kraft Foods has been set a deadline to make a formal offer for Cadbury or the US food giant will be forced to put any takeover ambitions on hold for six months.
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