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Burger King To Merge With Tim Hortons

2014-09-15 17:37:33| Food Processing

$11.5 billion deal will create the world's third largest quick-serve restaurant company.

Heard Off the Street: Burger King deal will leave Canadians with bad taste

2014-09-07 06:28:27| Food - Topix.net

Fast food purveyor Burger King Worldwide's plans to acquire Canadian coffee brewer Tim Hortons for $11 billion has raised quite a stink this side of the border, where some U.S. lawgivers are up in arms over the willingness of yet another company to renounce its U.S. citizenship for tax purposes. Miami-based Burger King will move its headquarters to suburban Toronto as part of the transaction, joining the exodus of companies relocating to another Promised Land to avoid U.S. tax rates.

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Burger King urged use Tom Hortons acquisition to correct appalling' palm oil policies

2014-08-28 10:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: Burger King's newly-announced $11bn acquisition of Canadian coffee and doughnuts chain Tim Hortons may have already faced criticism over its tax arrangements, but now the deal is also taking flak over the two companies' environmental track record. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) this week called on both companies to use the planned merger as an opportunity to re-evaluate palm oil policies, which saw Burger King ranked at the bottom of the NGO's recent league table on companies' sustainable...

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