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Laura Cooper

ARTICLES BY LAURA COOPER

From left, Donna Seymour, Carey Clahan, Jan-Ie Low and Derek Uehara stomp grapes at Limerick Lane Cellars.

Grape camp: Where wine lovers pay big bucks to do hard labor

4 min read . 27 Oct 2025

The new Lay’s bag design trumpets the lack of artificial flavors and dyes. (Photo: Kevin Serna for WSJ)

PepsiCo’s plan to boost Lay’s sales: ‘Real potatoes’

4 min read . 09 Oct 2025

Coke makes the concentrate for its U.S. sodas mostly in Atlanta and Puerto Rico, while Pepsi’s is imported from Ireland. (REUTERS)

The Trump tariffs are tilting the scales in the Coke vs. Pepsi battle

3 min read . 20 Apr 2025

PepsiCo launched the cola wars in the 1960s. WSJ

The new Pepsi challenge: Saving Pepsi from years of decline

9 min read . 03 Apr 2025

A worker removes bottles of American-made wine from a shelf at a liquor store in Toronto. (Bloomberg)

From champagne to bourbon, alcohol lands on front lines of global trade war

5 min read . 14 Mar 2025

Demand for tequila was roughly flat in 2024, and drinkers have been looking for cheaper options. (Photo by Mikhail Nilov, Pexels)

The tequila boom is over. The tequila price war has begun.

3 min read . 09 Feb 2025

Most ads for liquor or beer include a reminder to “drink responsibly”.

The alcohol industry is hooked on its heaviest drinkers

4 min read . 21 Jan 2025

Dividend recaps let private-equity firms get money from existing portfolio companies without having to sell them. (Image: Pixabay)

Private equity firms desperate for cash turn to a familiar trick

3 min read . 16 Aug 2024

Vertex Chairman Jeffrey Leiden says the company’s $4.9 billion purchase of Alpine Immune Sciences ‘left us with a balance sheet to do more deals.’ Photo: Jeff Pinette for The Wall Street Journal

Big drugmakers are clinching smaller deals

5 min read . 13 Aug 2024

Brannin McBee and Michael Intrator of CoreWeave (CoreWeave)

CoreWeave raises $7.5 billion in debt for AI computing push

2 min read . 17 May 2024

Private IPOs don’t come with the splashy bell-ringing ceremony of a traditional debut or result in publicly traded stock. They do allow companies to avoid the potential embarrassment of a new listing falling flat.

Wall Street’s Latest Pitch Is a Contradiction: Private IPOs

3 min read . 25 Feb 2024

Blackstone counted among the private-equity firms whose share prices rose despite the decrease in dealmaking.

‘This Can’t Go On for Much Longer.’ Private Equity’s Deal Lament

4 min read . 02 Jan 2024

Steve Pagliuca, co-chairman, Bain Capital (Photo: Bain Capital)

Bain Capital co-chairman to retire

3 min read . 17 Jan 2023

Subway became one of the world’s largest restaurant chains by aggressively building new locations, but stumbled in the last decade.

Subway explores sale that could value sandwich chain at more than $10 billion

2 min read . 13 Jan 2023

Blackstone, Emerson Electric strike $14 billion buyout deal

4 min read . 31 Oct 2022

Signify Health has a market value of roughly $5 billion, boosted since the Journal first reported on the possibility of a deal early this month (Photo: Bloomberg)

Amazon among bidders for Signify Health

1 min read . 22 Aug 2022

Market mayhem triggers deal-making drought

4 min read . 01 Aug 2022

Globalization Partners gets Vista Equity backing at $4.2 bn valuation

2 min read . 24 Jan 2022

Photo: Bloomberg

Blackstone’s Korngold warns of tech sector euphoria

3 min read . 04 Jan 2022

Private equity backs record volume of tech deals

3 min read . 03 Jan 2022