Irish baker IAWS is buying Swiss peer Hiestand in a deal worth around 4 billion Swiss francs ($3.93 billion) to form one of the world's biggest baked good companies. IAWS said on Monday it was ...

DUBLIN/ZURICH, June 9 (Reuters) - Irish baker IAWS is buying Swiss peer Hiestand in a deal worth around 4 billion Swiss francs ($3.93 billion) to form one of the world's biggest baked good companies.

IAWS comes in two guises - IAWS Plc and IAWS Co-op. For most, the distinction is blurred, but a world of difference exists between the two groups. IAWS Co-op has been very much in the headlines since ...

In a blaze of iced double chocolate brownies, blueberry muffins and "supreme indulgence" cookies, IAWS plc has cooked up another appetising acquisition. The Irish food group's $561 million (€448 ...

IAWS chief executive, Killian, said the Hubert acquisition put his firm's products in more than 50,000 outlets across the UK, Ireland, France and North America, and with the company's other brands, ...

DUBLIN, March 12 (Reuters) - Irish bread and pastries maker IAWS said it expected to beat an earlier forecast of 10 percent earnings growth for the year after posting a 12.1 percent rise in adjusted ...

IAWS, which is planning to create a company with combined sales of €2.3bn through its purchase of Swiss firm Hiestand, has been given the green light to go ahead with the deal by the Swiss takeover ...

FOOD GROUP IAWS has seen a 35 per cent increase in revenues to €1.9 billion in the first nine months of its current financial year, with spin-off agri-nutrition company Origin Enterprises recording a ...

IAWS Co-op will soon convert to a plc and complete its part-takeover of SWS, before starting trading in the enlarged group’s shares by June 2006 at the latest, chief executive Philip Lynch has ...

IN ITS first share sale and placement since 1996, the Irish Agricultural Wholesale Society has sold 3.5m shares in IAWS to raise a total of ?29.75m. Separately, a further 5.5m shares were placed on ...

Food group IAWS has reported a 19% rise in pre-tax profit for the year ending July 2004 and said it was well placed to enhance shareholder value through its spread of businesses. IAWS, which makes ...