LONDON (Bloomberg) -- Cadbury Schweppes Plc., the third-biggest soft-drink maker, said it's interested in buying some of the food businesses of Nabisco Group Holdings Corp., which is considering selling all or part of itself.
Cadbury, based in London, which makes confectionery items as well as beverages, joins Danone SA of France and U.S. financier Carl Icahn in looking at Nabisco. Philip Morris Cos. declined to comment Monday on a Wall Street Journal report that it has bid to buy Nabisco Holdings Corp., the maker of Oreo cookies that is 80.5 percent owned by Nabisco Group."Parts of the Nabisco business operate in similar markets, and therefore Cadbury Schweppes confirms that it has expressed an exploratory interest in these," the company said. "The process is at a very preliminary stage."