Arby's Owner to Buy Wendy's


	Arby's Owner to Buy Wendy's

reimers

4-25-2008 12:15 PM

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4-25-2008 12:19 PM

gwendolyn

My two fave fast food joints. I hope they'll start making combo-restaurants!

Yum!

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corporations to make changes to boost their stock price has a new
challenge: turning around one of the fast-food industry's more
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it will pay about $2.34 billion in an all-stock deal for <SPAN title="Click here to update the right column." class="ra_cword_wrap"><A class="ra_cword" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Wendy's</A><SPAN class="ra_icon"> </SPAN></SPAN>
International Inc., the nation's third-largest hamburger chain,
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of the Tim Hortons coffee-and-doughnut chain and cutting corporate
expenses - since 2005 to increase the company's stock price. His
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