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...US food manufacturer General Mills was one of the first to make a big push towards regenerative agriculture practices, announcing in 2019 a target to extend these to 1mn acres of farmland by 2030....
...His eyes shine with enthusiasm when he talks of the Fox’s mill where the flannel is now made. Peck and Huntsman plan to revive more items from the Peck archive....
...Cary Grant was a Fox fan and Gregory Peck’s 1956 Man in the Gray Flannel Suit was wearing a Fox Brothers suit made by Huntsman, which has used Fox flannel since opening in 1849....
...You can see the Pantin Mills [historic flour mills now converted into offices of BNP Paribas Securities Services] and the Cité des Sciences [a major science museum] is also really impressive....
...Huntsman, the hallowed Savile Row tailor that has dressed King Edward VII and Gregory Peck as well as Queen Victoria and Katharine Hepburn, has seen a 35 per cent increase in female clients since 2019....
...The agency accused Mondelez and Kraft Foods of manipulating US wheat markets in a scheme involving grain futures and a flour mill in the state of Ohio....
...“Anthony is a street fighter,” says Gregory Van, a former Grab employee who now heads a Singapore-based digital wealth management platform....
...Shares of listed ethanol refiners have been knocked, with Omaha-based Green Plains halving since March 1 and Archer Daniels Midland, an early biofuel champion that is now trying to split off its ethanol dry mills...
...Like mPharma, Flour Mills found that western countries were being prioritised by most international medical suppliers....
...charged that Kraft Foods, which later became Mondelez and Kraft Heinz, bought “huge” amounts of Chicago-listed wheat futures, pushing down the relative price of physical wheat that supplied a company flour mill...
...With the review under way, Bunge this month reached a deal to place its lossmaking Brazilian sugar mills in a new joint venture with BP, raising $775m and concluding a years-long attempt to sell or float...
...In 2015 it charged Mondelez and Kraft with manipulating wheat prices by buying up large amounts of wheat futures to influence the prices it paid for crops near an Ohio flour mill....
...relationship between the price of Chicago’s soft red winter wheat futures markets and the prices for physical wheat that the companies — then known as Kraft Foods — purchased to supply a company flour mill...
...Bunge first announced it was exploring a sale of the loss-making mills in 2013....
...The New York-listed company appointed Gregory Heckman acting chief executive 12 weeks after he was added to the board in a deal with two activist investors....
...Turkish mills may instead seek supplies from other exporters such as Brazil, Turkmenistan and Greece....
...Customers of Mercaris include companies such as Amazon-owned Whole Foods and Applegate, a meats brand owned by Hormel Foods, along with farmers, merchants, feed mills and brokers....
...Other memorable promotions, made with the agency Taylor Herring, include last year’s Valentine’s Day campaign offering “romantic” £15 candlelit dinners in Greggs shops, and a spoof “Gregory and Gregory”...
...gregory.meyer@ft.com...
...General Mills last month partly blamed rising transport costs for 625 redundancies it will make this year....
...Additional reporting by Gregory Meyer in New York Food chains face backlash over cost of vegan dishes A hot dog made headlines in London this month....
...Longstanding plans to rid itself of Brazilian sugar mills are also advancing, with options including a public offering, a sale or a partnership, Mr Schroder said....
...Bunge announced it was exploring a sale of the lossmaking mills four years ago....
...One of the targets of popular wrath was a steel mill in central Vietnam belonging to Taiwanese-owned Formosa Plastics, which protesters set alight....
...“It looks like an attractive deal for Weir at a good price,” said Ryan Gregory, analyst at Liberum....
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