Diedrich Coffee, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDRX) is soaring on a ceffeinated buyout offer. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR)) confirmed that it has submitted a proposal to acquire Diedrich Coffee for $30.00 per share in a transaction with a total enterprise value of approximately $247 million.  Diedrich announced that its board of directors had determined that the Green Mountain offer constituted a superior proposal over the offer from Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEET) and Diedrich also announced today that is has received a revised offer from Peet’s.
The new $30.00 per share in cash has no financing and no due diligence contingencies that will be through cash on hand and existing bank lines of credit. This offer represents a 47% premium to the closing market price of Diedrich common stock on November 2, 2009 and a 15% premium over the original cash and stock proposal from Peet’s. Here are the moves at 8:55 AM EST:
DDRX is up 27% at $33.20 on 92,000 shares
GMCR is down only 0.5% at $64.71 on 6,000 shares
PEET is down 2.5% at $37.07 on 8,2000 shares
JON C. OGG
