Top executives of the Stamford, Conn.-based firm and an investment management company agreed to pay $23 a share, or about $200 million, in a leveraged buyout. Directors of the company that

makes Revereware pots and pans unanimously approved the revised offer from Smith-Vasiliou Management Co. of New York. Smith-Vasiliou originally offered Revere $20 a share, or about $174

million, but sweetened the offer on May 9. MORE TO READ