Jarden Agrees to Buy Yankee Candle for $1.75 Billion in Cash

... Yankee Candle, which sells items in 35,000 retail stores in North America , for about $1.4 billion in 2007. Shares of Rye, New York-based, Jarden fell 1.4 percent to $42.95 on Aug. 30 and had increased 25 percent this year. Bloomberg moderates all ...

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