Conagra Brands

Unilever buys snacks brand Graze. Accel-KKR backs hotel-tech merger. Nominations due Feb. 8.

Coca-Cola, Conagra, General Mills, Krispy Kreme and PepsiCo. are among the buyers, snatching up tasty and sometimes healthy offerings.

Hershey buys Pirate Brands from B&G Foods for $420 million to capture popular snack brands Pirate's Booty, Smart Puffs and Original Tings.

A little more than 30 years ago, when the late Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. announced he was leaving KKR, he told The New York Times that at his new firm, Kohlberg & Co., he’d be focusing on “deals where reason still prevails.”