Billion-Dollar Baby
By Business Journal Staff
Published: April 16, 2007
The company that began 80 years ago this summer in the kitchen of Dorothy Gerber has a new owner. Rumored for many months, Nestlè SA, the world’s largest food and drink company, announced it would purchase Fremont-based Gerber Product Co. for $5.5 billion.

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