David Murdock, chairman and CEO of Dole Food Co., West-lake Village, Calif., has offered to buy all outstanding shares of the company and take it private - again - just as he did in 2003. Murdock and his family already own 39.5 percent of the stock. He offered $12 per share in cash, an 18 percent premium over the stock price the day before his offer. That would value the company at just over $1 billion.
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