Jarden agrees to buy Yankee Candle for $1.75B

... ght Yankee Candle, which sells items in 35,000 retail stores in North America, for about $1.4 billion in 2007. Shares of Rye, N.Y.-based, Jarden fell 1.4% to $42.95 on Aug. 30 and had increased 25% this year.

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