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Pepsico Inc. snapped up two of Britain's largest potato chip manufacturers from BSN of France on Monday in a $1.35-billion cash deal that gives the food and beverage giant a larger share of the European snack food market. BSN had acquired the companies, Walkers Crisps and Smiths Crisps, just a month ago as part of its purchase of RJR Nabisco's European food operations. RJR sold the division to trim some of the debt from its record $25-billion buyout by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Pepsico Inc. snapped up two of Britain's largest potato chip manufacturers from BSN of France on Monday in a $1.35-billion cash deal that gives the food and beverage giant a larger share of the European snack food market. BSN had acquired the companies, Walkers Crisps and Smiths Crisps, just a month ago as part of its purchase of RJR Nabisco's European food operations. RJR sold the division to trim some of the debt from its record $25-billion buyout by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

As a wine region, Mendocino County is one of California's prize jewels that simply has yet to be polished and honed so it can be seen in its true glory. But the folks who live hereabout have no desire to do any shining, and for that reason the multitude of tourists that overrun the Napa Valley will never see the gorgeous valleys and violet hills of Mendocino, or watch the haze of a gray spring morning lift over verdant, quilted hills of vines. The word about the high quality of these wines is leaking out, however.