(Bloomberg) -- Breaking up is hard, especially when long-time partners have to decide who gets financial assets, property or even a pet. The split could be trickier, still, when one of the world’s most beloved dogs is involved.
MetLife Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Kandarian has to decide whether he keeps Snoopy and his Peanuts friends, or if the comic-strip crew will depart with a U.S. retail business that the company plans to sell, spin off or divest to investors in a public offering.
Snoopy has been associated with the insurer for more than three decades, and enhances the “warm, approachable quality that is important to the MetLife brand,” according to the company’s guidelines. The beagle appears in the insurer’s ads, employees’ business cards, Wall Street presentations and even blimps that fly above golf tournaments.
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