1.   At Quaker, losses at its troubled Snapple beverage unit probably will cancel out improving sales of its bagged cereals.

2.   Quaker Oats, benefiting from a rise in sales of its bagged cereals, also has attracted interest because of a new chief executive, Robert Morrison.

3.   Quaker has been selling bagged cereals for years under the Popeye brand.

4.   Sales of inexpensive bagged cereals almost doubled.