3G Capital Eyes Its Next Target, Are Firms Quivering?

3G Capital is on the hunt for its next acquisition target. Like a patient tennis player who is most frustrating to play, they stand at the baseline waiting for an opponent to make a mistake, and only at the moment of weakness do they pounce, unleashing aggressive cost cutting tactics to deliver investor value. Jorge Paulo Lemann, a former professional tennis player and founder of private equity firm 3G Capital, is one such tennis player. 3G Capital observing U.S. consumer goods corporations As leader of 3G Capital, he and a pack of analysts are circling, carefully observing several well known…