Logan Beirne

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The Great Bank Consolidation Continues: Heartland Bank Buys Town...

HBT Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: HBT), the holding company for Heartland Bank and Trust Company  announced its plan to acquire Town and Country Financial for $101 million. Heartland’s Chairman and...

TreeHouse Foods Serves up Meal Prep Business in Divestiture

TreeHouse Foods, Inc. announced an agreement to sell a significant portion of its meal preparation business to Investindustrial for $950 million. TreeHouse is shedding this segment to instead focus...

Flush Pfizer Acquires Global Blood Therapeutics

Flush with cash from its groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer announced its all cash acquisition of Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. for $5.4 billion earlier this month. The biopharmaceutical company develops...

Amazon Vacuums up iRobot

In its second major acquisition in almost as many weeks, Amazon announced its purchase of iRobot Corporation. The all cash deal valued at $1.7 billion promises to bring the Roomba and...

Amazon’s Acquisition of One Medical May Be Tough Pill...

In its latest foray into healthcare, Amazon announced that it will acquire primary care organization One Medical for $3.9 billion. The all-cash deal demonstrates Amazon’s continued appetite for applying...

JetBlue Swoops in as Frontier-Spirit Merger Collapses

As predicted in April, JetBlue Airways has jettisoned the Frontier-Spirit merger. The months-long struggle between the rival airlines has convinced Spirit Airlines Inc.’s shareholders to reject Frontier’s $2.9 billion...