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Food giant Mars to buy Hotel Chocolat in £534m deal | BusinessNews

Hotel Chocolat has agreed to a £534m takeover offer from Mars, the maker of goods from Snickers bars to Pedigree dog food. The UK specialist chocolatier retailer said the cash offer represented a 170% premium to its London share price of 139p. Shares soared by 164% at the market open in response. Mars has proposed to pay 375p for each Hotel Chocolat share under the terms. As an alternative, investors can elect to secure a share in the bid company for each Hotel Chocolat share they already own. The board has recommended the deal. The company, which has a 20-year… Read More

The Wildest Hotel Dining Requests

Long gone are the days of stale bread baskets and passable prime rib epitomizing hotel dining. Now, smoked and cured fish trolleys and caviar-topped everything are just a few of the many extravagant culinary experiences guests can expect while staying at some of the world’s best hotels. But when the bar for hotel dining gets raised, so do the demands. “We receive a lot of extravagant requests from our guests,” Gerardo Say Colmenares, the executive sous chef at Mandarin Oriental, Canouan, shares with Food&Wine. “While ordering a lavish bottle of Champagne on an anniversary dinner is still the norm, many… Read More