date:Mar 20, 2014
Food manufacturer TreeHouse Foods Inc is weighing a bid for Michael Foods Group Inc, joining a list of suitors that includes much larger rival Tyson Foods Inc , people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
A deal, which could be between $2 billion and $2.5 billion, would be a big bite for TreeHouse, which has a market value of around $2.7 billion.
Michael Foods, the egg and dairy products producer owned by Goldman Sachs Group Inc's private equity unit, is in the advanced stage of finding