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Speaker 2: Craft Higns to separate into two publicly traded companies. Jen

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Speaker 2: Bartashis joins a senior retail stables and packaged food analyst

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Speaker 2: at Bloomberg Intelligence. Jen, what is craft Higns doing? It

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Speaker 2: wasn't just like ten years ago they put the companies.

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Speaker 3: Together, Hi, Paul.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it was just about a decade ago that they

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Speaker 4: put the companies together with the plans that it would

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Speaker 4: become kind of a package food powerhouse. But trends have

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Speaker 4: changed and consumers have changed, and it just hasn't materialized

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Speaker 4: the way they originally thought it would.

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Speaker 5: So what did the two companies get out of this merger?

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Speaker 6: Then?

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Speaker 4: So you know when they when when we're looking at

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Speaker 4: what they brought together, they brought together some products where

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Speaker 4: multiple years where scanner data shows that Kraft Heind's brands

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Speaker 4: Uh, there is that possibility, you know, it's the It

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Speaker 4: definitely echoes what Kellogg did. They took their emerging markets,

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Speaker 7: You mentioned several times how the consumer has changed. Let's

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Speaker 4: It is, indeed scarlet. It's a slow moving shift, and

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Speaker 2: Lots of deals out there, but the deals aren't, you know,

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Speaker 2: analyst here. Ken Ken, I mean when you look at Pepsi,

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Speaker 8: Well, you know, given the PepsiCo stock before today was

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Speaker 2: Lot's going on in the world of global healthcare. We

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Speaker 2: want to check in with sampaz Ellie. He's a director

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Speaker 2: of research for Global Industries any Senior Biotech, Pharmaceuticals, all

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Speaker 8: Hey, Sam, We've.

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Speaker 2: Had a lot of turnover and a lot of uncertainty

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Speaker 6: Oh, that's a very big question, Paul, and lovely to

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Speaker 6: talk to you again. It's been a while. There's all

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Speaker 6: And there's been major upheavals in terms of people that

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Speaker 6: Let's see what they say about COVID vaccine. But already

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Speaker 6: So there are these issues. And of course we've got

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