Furniture Brands International Inc. is “disappointed” that a major shareholder is considering pursuing what the Clayton-based importer and manufacturer calls a “costly and disruptive” proxy contest.

Last week, SCSF Equities LLC, a division of Sun Capital Partners of Boca Raton, Fl.,…

Despite a private investment group’s recent interest in talking to Clayton-based Furniture Brands International Inc. about a takeover, one analyst said Thursday that she was “skeptical” that a deal will occur.

Furniture Brands, the country’s second-largest furniture-maker, lost money last year as…

Bloomberg News is reporting this morning that Charter Communications Inc. Chairman Paul Allen has been approached by potential investors in the company.

The company made the disclosure in connection with a plan to raise as much as $775 million in notes…

Sun Capital Securities Group, which has offered to buy Kellwood Co. at $21 a share,  said Tuesday that it now has at least 57 percent of the apparel marketer’s shares based on stock that was tendered Monday.

Town and Country-based Kellwood agreed on Monday…