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20030031: Blue Point Capital Partners, L.P.; Generation Capital Partners, L.P.
20030025: Fidelity National Financial, Inc.; Eastern Financial Systems, Inc.
20030014: Carlyle Partners III, L.P.; Invensys plc
20021205: AIG Highstar Capital, L.P.; The Williams Companies, Inc.
20021223: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.; Doris and Jay Christopher
20030035: Tom T. Gores; Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
20030032: General Motors Corporation; Royal Dutch Petroleum Company
20030028: AdvancePCS; Accordant Health Services, Inc.
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst; Pinnacle Foods Corporation; Philip Morris Companies, Inc.; and Kraft Foods North America, Inc., FTC
The Commission authorized staff to seek a preliminary injunction to block the proposed acquisition of Claussen Pickle Company by Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Equity Fund V L.P., the owner of Vlasic Pickle Company on grounds that the transaction would combine the dominant firm in the market for refrigerated pickles (Claussen) with its most significant competitor in refrigerated pickles (Vlasic). Six days after the complaint was filed in federal district court, the parties abandoned the transaction.