Jarden buying Yankee Candle for about $1.75B

... candles and accessories. Jarden Corp. founder and CEO Martin Franklin said in a statement Tuesday that this is the Rye, N.Y.-based company's first significant acquisition since April 2010. Yankee Candle President and CEO Harlan Kent said the buyout ...

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