Industrials

Total sales volume of soda fell about 1% in 2011, about the same level it was in 1996, as energy drinks failed to offset weakness in traditional sodas, according to a beverage industry report.

Swiss-based Tyco International is merging its flow control business with Pentair in an all-stock deal valued at about $4.53 billion.

The controversy over a common ground beef filler dubbed "pink slime" by critics has hurt short-term beef demand, a Tyson Foods executive said.

Marking its first entry into China, J.M. Smucker acquired a minority stake in privately-owned oatmeal maker Guilin Seamild Biologic Technology Development for $35 million.

The ship responsible for the second largest oil spill in U.S. waters behind BP’s Deepwater Horizon, is being sold to a company that will most likely rip it a part and sell it in pieces.

Lifted by signs of life at its struggling Olive Garden restaurants and warm weather, Darden Restaurants narrowly beat the Street on Friday with an 8.5% jump in fiscal third-quarter net income.

Construction equipment giant Caterpillar will invest some $20 million to triple the size of one of its manufacturing plants in South Carolina and create as many as 80 jobs.

The world's largest heavy machinery maker unveiled a $20 million expansion plan for its manufacturing facility in Sumter, S.C., which would add 170,000 square feet and 80 new jobs.

Goodrich shareholders on Tuesday approved the company's $16.5 billion sale to United Technologies.

PepsiCo on Monday revealed plans to create a new job of president and bring back a former executive to run its food division.

3M, the maker of Scotch tape and Post-it notes, reported a 5.5 percent decline in fourth-quarter net sales, hurt by a global economic slowdown.

Tthe world's biggest brewer and two Chinese brewers are reportedly on the shortlist to buy most of the operations being sold by China's Kingway Brewery Holdings.

The latest government report shows farmers will plant the most corn in 75 years to cash in on higher prices.

Shares of firearm maker Smith & Wesson tumbled as politicians begin to call for tighter gun control legislation in the wake of last week’s massacre that left 28 dead.

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold sealed a pair of big deals to acquire full control of Plains Exploration and McMoRan Exploration for a combined $9 billion.

Archer Daniels Midland sweetened its bid for Australia’s GrainCorp by 3.4% to $2.9 billion.

Cal-Maine posted weak second-quarter earnings and said it expects feed costs to remain high and volatile through the remainder of the fiscal year.

In the face of the fiscal cliff and slow growth, chemical giant DuPont unveiled a $1 billion share buyback program and issued a cautiously optimistic outlook for the full year.

The Intentional Longshoremen's Association and port employers reached a temporary deal averting a strike that threatened to shut East Coast ports.

In a show of confidence despite uncertainty caused by the Sandy Hook massacre, Smith & Wesson bolstered its stock buyback plan.