The other risk is integrating these two companies, which is a risk with any merger.
The parting of the two companies, which will take at least 10 years, helps both companies.
The two companies, which have combined assets of $3.3 billion, are both based in Los Angeles.
The stock of the two companies, which had been declining significantly, jumped in response.
No purchase price was announced for the two companies, which are in Manchester, N.H.
Analysts follow the two companies, which survey customer shipping needs, as a proxy for overall economic health.
Unlike the other two companies, which fully crack the lobster, the company splits the lobster tails, but not the claws.
They find themselves at an impasse because of Ms. Redstone's desire to merge the two companies, which are corporate siblings.
The agency is charged with limiting losses at the two companies, which fall to taxpayers, and it has resisted some ideas that could increase those losses.
The report will describe a plan for winding down the two companies, which were taken over by the government in 2008.
But the two companies – which, combined, make up 90 per cent of the soft-drink market in the US – insist the ingredient is not a health risk.
