{"id":2523,"date":"2006-08-30T08:57:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T08:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2006-08-30T08:57:42","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T08:57:42","slug":"kraft_foods_osc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2523","title":{"rendered":"Kraft Foods (Oscar Meyer Parent) Spinoff?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/30\/business\/30place.html?ex=1314590400&amp;en=d12f70458ef13684&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">Melanie Warner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Today&rsquo;s meeting of Altria&rsquo;s board may bring Kraft &mdash; which sells food carrying the Maxwell House, Nabisco and Oscar Mayer labels, among others &mdash; one step closer to its goal.<\/p>\n<p>With the last major legal challenge over marketing practices by the tobacco industry having cleared two weeks ago, Altria&rsquo;s 11-member board is likely to discuss the timing of a much-anticipated and imminent corporate overhaul. But Altria&rsquo;s board is not expected to announce a Kraft spinoff after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street analysts who follow Altria say they expect the company, which has been planning an overhaul since 2004, to take its time in making a final decision on the timing of what would be one of the largest tax-free corporate spinoffs.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Warner: Today&rsquo;s meeting of Altria&rsquo;s board may bring Kraft &mdash; which sells food carrying the Maxwell House, Nabisco and Oscar Mayer labels, among others &mdash; one step closer to its goal. With the last major legal challenge over marketing practices by the tobacco industry having cleared two weeks ago, Altria&rsquo;s 11-member board is likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}