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...Decades of weak regulation followed, with Slim’s company fighting any new rules aggressively in the courts and competitors making mis-steps, experts said....
...Modelo Especial, the Mexican beer distributed in the US by Constellation Brands, knocked Bud Light off its perch as the country’s best-selling beer in May....
...(FT) News round-up Goldman and JPMorgan plan bumper bonuses for investment bankers (FT) UK financial regulator rebuked for handling of banks’ mis-selling scandal (FT) Rentokil to buy US extermination...
...Mi Tierra Las Americas, a Bolivian restaurant in Little Havana, also serves Honduran and Peruvian food (locals mostly come for the salteñas, Bolivia’s version of empanadas)....
...They included leveraged buyouts of the Mexican food chain Qdoba last year, the parent company of Chuck E Cheese in 2014 and CKE Restaurants, which owns burger chain Carl’s Jr, in 2010....
...The core concept was North American with a bit of Mexican in it, Jewish deli food, pasta. For us, it was all the great immigrant cuisines of the US,” she says....
...Lazard has hired Tim Wielechowski as a managing director in its middle market consumer, food and retail group....
...We also love Mi Tocaya Antojería in Logan Square, which is our version of Brooklyn, for the best Mexican food in town....
...The food group, whose brands include Pepperidge Farms biscuits, Prego pasta sauce and Goldfish crackers, has attempted to move into healthier foods, but those efforts have fallen short so far....
...Jack in the Box, which had a market cap of about $2.5bn, operates its namesake burger chain, and recently sold off its struggling Mexican fast-casual brand Qdoba to Apollo Global Management for about $305m...
...For the issuers of these instruments, however — the Mexican restaurant chain Chilango, confectioner Hotel Chocolat, and craft beer maker BrewDog — the concept is rather more palatable....
...“We started selling food at festivals 25 years ago,” says Pura Vida founder John Eveleigh, whose Mexican food attracts hordes each summer at UK festivals from Green Man to Kendal Calling....
...The Restaurant Group, which also owns Garfunkel’s and the Mexican-themed chain Chiquito, racked up a pre-tax loss of £22.5m, compared with a profit of £38m in the same period last year....
...And it’s a surprise that France hasn’t thought of something similar, given the likelihood of mis-selling by bancassurers....
...So I sip my smoky Don Julio alone and suggest we order food. To my delight, chiles en nogada is on the menu....
...InBev achieved synergies amounting to 18 per cent of Anheuser-Busch’s sales when it bought the Budweiser brewer in 2008 and 21 per cent from Modelo, the Mexican brewer of Corona....
...Google and Quicken have opened offices in the city centre, where the Whole Foods supermarket chain offers organic produce and hip microbreweries and boutiques have cropped up....
...(FT) Food for thought Univision IPO The largest Spanish-language broadcaster is returning to the public markets....
...With oil and gas explorers such as ConocoPhillips and BP scaling back investment, companies further down the energy industry’s food chain have been hit particularly hard....
...The deal to bring together Safeway and Albertsons marks one of the largest deals in the food retail sector in recent years....
...Shares in Hillshire were little changed while Pinnacle Foods was down 2 per cent to $31.48....
...Rumbi: I loved our national week bidding day last year, which is when different countries or regions showcase their cultures through music, food and one huge party....
...In the 1990s, he worked on the Mexican and Asian crises....
...(Financial Times) “Kraft Foods Group, the North American packaged-foods company with brands including Maxwell House coffee and Velveeta cheese, authorized a $3 billion stock repurchase program....
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