A One Ice, Inc.

March 21, 2024

Ben & Jerry’s calls for permanent ceasefire in Gaza

...Ben & Jerry’s is one of only a few companies to have taken a public stance on the Israel-Hamas war or to have backed a permanent ceasefire....

January 16, 2024

FT Live

Future of Retail

Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation

John Gapper

Fake Magnum ice cream is too upsetting for Unilever

...But Unilever, and whatever the new ice cream company ends up being called, need not be too apologetic. Making ice cream is largely an honourable trade, and it is certainly one that would be missed....

March 22, 2024

Due Diligence

How buying Teslas hurt Hertz Premium

...One invitation to start: Our friends at FT Alphaville are hosting a pub quiz in New York on April 9....

March 20, 2024

LexHelen Thomas

The Lex Newsletter: Breaking the IPO ice Premium

...But breaking the ice on Europe’s listings market isn’t for the faint-hearted....

March 6, 2024

LexUnilever PLC

Unilever’s ice cream scoop-out may increase appetite for another split Premium

...A smidgen comes from shedding lower growth ice-cream. The rest, one hopes, will come from new investment....

March 19, 2024

FT Live

Business of Luxury Summit

Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year

Unilever PLC

Unilever to split off ice cream business and cut 7,500 jobs

...“It’s an invitation with a fuse” for buyout investors, said one.Some previous Unilever businesses that have been separated out went on to be acquired by private equity groups....

March 19, 2024

UK trade

UK-India trade deal talks put on ice until end of spring

...“Neither side is walking away from talks,” said one British official. “We simply do not yet have what we need to finalise a deal that meets our joint ambitions.”...

March 15, 2024

HTSI

The ice cool of Jessica McCormack

...Yet there’s still a punkish irreverence to her most popular designs, including the Wing of Desire earrings (£8,900), one of her earliest pieces, a diamond-studded cuff resembling the Greek god Hermes’ motif...

January 24, 2024

Lex PopuliInvestments

If you like a company, should you buy its shares?

...“Buy what you know” was a keystone of his investing philosophy — one that earned the Fidelity Magellan fund a benchmark-beating 29 per cent annualised return under his 13-year stewardship....

April 19, 2024

HTSIThe HTSI Paris special

Serpent à Plume’s Alexander Rash talks taste

...In my freezer you’ll always find vanilla and pecan ice cream by Häagen-Dazs. I have a serious ice-cream addiction, even in winter....

March 22, 2024

Travel

Ice fishing on Estonia’s frozen frontier

...“We can live here, and no one tells us how to be.” On my last night by Lake Peipus, I took a midnight walk: there was not a soul on the ice — only me....

December 16, 2023

Special ReportFuture of Water

Space agencies race to find water on the moon

...“Are we talking about sheets of water ice beneath the surface, or a fine mixture of ice and soil, from which you’d have to dig out a lot of soil to extract the water?”...

March 22, 2024

John Gapper

Convenience stores should make more of themselves

...There is definitely a demand for convenience: even in the densely packed Japanese market, konbini revenues rose by 4 per cent last year, with a hot summer increasing drink and ice-cream sales....

February 16, 2024

HTSI

The sweet cacophony of the bar

...One writer who knew that very well was Philip Larkin – his description of a G&T in “Sympathy in White Major” (1974) is so euphonious it deserves a trigger warning: When I drop four cubes of iceChimingly...

February 24, 2024

FT Live

Due Diligence Live

Where leaders in investment and finance meet

HTSIThe HTSI wedding special 2024

The buffet is back. Will you join the queue?

...The food included two wild smoked salmon and a whole Brie de Meaux Donge infused with truffle and served on sourdough with walnuts that “was one of the naughtiest things you’ve ever eaten”....

April 17, 2024

Lex PopuliMarks & Spencer Group PLC

M&S ‘superapp’ will need a long shelf life

...A smidgen comes from shedding lower growth ice-cream. The rest, one hopes, will come from new investment....

March 21, 2024

Special ReportManaging Climate Change

‘It looks like we’ve lost control’ of our ice sheets

...One of the most intensively researched consequences of ocean warming in the Southern Ocean is the melting of Antarctic ice. This ice takes three forms....

November 30, 2023

News in-depthEmployment

Warehouse operators turn to entertainment and food facilities to attract workers

...DHL, one of the world’s largest delivery groups, said some of its facilities offer “multipurpose space” for sports activities such as basketball, badminton and futsal, a variation on five-a-side football...

January 3, 2024

Jo Ellison

What the charmless Ripley could teach Bond

...The ultimate cipher, the fraudster and then serial killer of five novels, he is a canvas on which one can project all sorts of moods....

April 13, 2024

Lex PopuliPersonal Finance

Athleisure shares appear out of shape

...The UK’s listed universe of sportswear merchants is a small one. A plethora of cult brands remain in private hands, despite periodic IPO talk by the likes of Gymshark....

March 29, 2024

Scoreboard

The Pop Tarts effect and US college football Premium

...We start the new year with a look at how smaller events are breaking through the noise in the $10bn world of US college sports, and a late decision by Fifa to put its new football agent rules on ice....

January 6, 2024

Berkshire Hathaway Inc

Buffett admits Berkshire’s days of ‘eye-popping’ gains are over

...The company spent billions of dollars acquiring truck-stop operator Pilot Flying J and insurance conglomerate Alleghany in recent years, adding them to a portfolio that includes ice cream purveyor Dairy...

February 24, 2024

Airlines

US airlines under fire for raising baggage fees again

...“While we don’t like increasing fees, it’s one step we are taking to return our company back to profitability and cover the increased costs of transporting bags.”...

March 10, 2024

Food Prices

French retailer Carrefour drops PepsiCo products over high prices

...PepsiCo’s Lipton ice tea and Unilever’s Viennetta ice cakes were among the items targeted in the campaign....

January 4, 2024

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