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Erin Mccarthy

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Consumer reporter @PhillyInquirer. Product of @Penn_State and Delaware County. Email me: emccarthy@inquirer.com

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Utz, the Pa. snack maker, is going private again as part of $2.9 billion deal

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By Erin McCarthy, Erin Mccarthy Verified
| The Philadelphia Inquirer Verified
Six years after going public, Utz Brands, the Pennsylvania producer of potato chips, pretzels, and other snacks, is set to become a private company again in a $2.9 billion deal with a German acquirer. When the latest deal is done, Utz’s founding families, the Rices and Lissettes, will own 50% of the company, and Intersnack Group, a snack maker in Europe and the Pacific, will own the other half, according to a Tuesday news release.
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4.6-million-square-foot King of Prussia data centers poised for nitty-gritty discussion

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By Erin McCarthy, Erin Mccarthy Verified
| The Philadelphia Inquirer Verified
A Main Line developer’s plan to build more than 4.6 million square feet of data centers in a small section of King of Prussia is set for an in-depth review beginning next week. The Upper Merion Township planning commission is scheduled to discuss three of Brian O’Neill’s five proposed data centers at its next meeting on Wednesday, July 22, according to township manager Anthony Hamaday and a meeting agenda posted online.
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A small-format Ikea is open at the old Granite Run Mall

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By Erin McCarthy, Erin Mccarthy Verified
| The Philadelphia Inquirer Verified
Ikea has opened its first Delaware County location, though it doesn’t look like its massive stores in Conshohocken and South Philly. The home design company’s “plan and order point” in Media opened Wednesday. At less than 4,000 square feet, the outpost is a fraction of the size of its typical stores, with square footage in the hundreds of thousands. The company operates more than a dozen of these locations nationwide, including one in Cherry Hill.
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