Fortune Brands hired Goldman Sachs in 2000 to find a buyer for its office products division.
If the market rebounds, Fortune Brands Home and Security is poised to jump into action.
For now, Fortune Brands has plenty of spare capacity and isn't envisioning new plants.
Penney, Target and Fortune Brands, all to the benefit of shareholders who tagged along for the ride.
Shares of Fortune Brands sell for only 14 times estimated 2002 earnings, which are expected to increase 31%.
Most analysts think investors should stand pat on Fortune Brands Home, with five of seven analysts rating it hold.
Most analysts think investors should stand pat on Fortune Brands Home, with seven of nine analysts rating it hold.
Beam has had a good run since its split from Fortune Brands last year, and I expect more good results to come.
Example engagements include Intel, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Fortune Brands, the Fortune Growth Summit, The Conference Board: Learning from Legends, and Excellence in Government.
Still, Klein is confident that Fortune Brands is poised to withstand any weakening in the housing rebound, and to thrive if it strengthens.
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Another marketer, Fortune Brands, recently launched its first major national ad campaign in quite some time for its Jim Beam line of bourbon products.
FBHS, a Fortune Brands spin-off that manufactures faucets, cabinets and security products, is poised to explode if the housing market chews through its excess inventory begins to recover.
American Cotton Oil is part of present-day Unilever, American Tobacco was folded into what is now Fortune Brands and National Lead is NL Industries, to name a few.
Instead of the complicated deal with Fortune Brands, Diageo could simply try to buy Jack Daniels, whose sales volumes and selling price are higher than Jim Beam's in America.
Fortune Brands Home and Security, which spun off from Fortune Brands just two weeks ago ( read about the spinoffs here) is poised to capitalize on a housing recovery.
It took 50% ownership in United Stationers and in 1997 installed a chief executive, Randall Larrimore, who had headed Fortune Brands' hardware division, including Moen Inc. and Master Lock Co.
One low-volatility stock is Fortune Brands (nyse: FO - news - people ), which has a 52-week beta of 0.52 and a Barra Risk Factor of only 5.
In Beam, you have a company that was recently spun off from a larger conglomerate (Fortune Brands) that made no sense, and a management team that is eager to prove what an independent Beam can do.
William Ackman of Pershing Square, an activist hedge fund, has built up his stake in Fortune Brands, a conglomerate with interests ranging from golf to spirits to home furnishings, and may try to force it to sell some of its parts.
It will probably have to stay clear of Fortune's vodka brands too, because of antitrust concerns.
Fortune could take on such brands without regulatory problems, though it would probably not be allowed Allied's whisky.
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While tobacco is vilified nowadays, Morgan Stanley analyst David Adelman says the company's brands are still worth a fortune.
Though tobacco is vilified nowadays, David Adelman, an analyst with Morgan Stanley, says that the company's brands are still worth a fortune.
Francis no longer GGW Brands, which has made a fortune selling videos and magazines of young women flashing their breasts.
If and when, for example, Sam Su of Yum Brands becomes the first Chinese CEO of a Fortune 500 company born in China then they will accept a free flow of non-Chinese executive talent throughout their organizations.
Achieved by exciting senior executives at Fortune 500 companies on go-to-market brand strategies, innovating new brands, building key client relationships and helping them generate billions in new business growth.
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When William Wrigley settled on gum as the way to make his fortune in Chicago at the end of the 19th Century, he had no idea that the brands he created - Juicy Fruit, Spearmint and Doublemint - would still be growing, more than a century later.
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