Kraft Heinz Offers to Buy Unilever in $143 Billion Deal -<br />LONDON — Kraft Heinz Company said on Friday that it had offered to buy Unilever in a $143 billion deal<br />that would potentially combine some of the world’s best known consumer brands.<br />Kraft said its offer had been declined, but that it looked forward to “working to reach agreement on the terms of a transaction.”<br />Unilever said, however, that the proposal “fundamentally undervalues” the company and<br />that it saw “no merit, either financial or strategic” for the deal.<br />The deal, if it were to happen, would combine Unilever consumer staples like Dove soap, Hellman’s mayonnaise<br />and Lipton tea with Kraft Heinz’s Oscar Mayer weiners, Heinz ketchup and Kraft macaroni and cheese.
