Hints and tips:
...Unilever set out new nutrition targets this year. It bought Graze, which makes healthy snacks such as roasted nuts and seeds, in 2019....
...“TikTok is trying to discover new use cases for the platform to get wider acceptance,” said Madhur Singhal, managing director at consultancy Praxis Global Alliance....
...The US-based grain trading houses ADM and Cargill sued Syngenta in recent month, each claiming tens of millions of dollars in damages....
...Republicans, meanwhile, have belatedly begun highlighting the Democratic party’s network of plutocratic backers, linked to a donor group called the Democracy Alliance....
...Meantime, ADM has allocated $1.4bn for capital spending and “small M&A” this year....
...The sportswear brand, owned by Germany’s Adidas since 2006, makes CrossFit-badged clothing as part of a broader alliance with the fashionable fitness movement....
...Others are New York-listed ADM and Bunge and Louis Dreyfus Commodities of France....
...Even if Nestlé succeeds in acquiring Pfizer’s infant nutrition business, it is unlikely to be able to keep it all....
...ADM, for instance, is already a big player in the unregulated canola market, and operates six wheat mills across the country....
...Last year, the Obesity Action Coalition criticised the Georgia Children’s Health Alliance for its campaign to combat obesity and diabetes among children....
...In a still unusual move for corporate counsel, she is now also the business head of Pfizer’s nutrition division, which had annual revenues of $1.867bn in 2010....
...Katherine Garrett-Cox (Alliance Trust) 50. Mia Brunell Livfors (AB Kinnevik)...
...A valuation of $5.4bn for WBD, including net debt, is double the valuation at which competitor Danone sold its 18 per cent stake for in August, as it shifted to an alliance with OAO Unimilk....
...Mr Steinemann, formerly a top executive at Nutreco, the Netherlands-based animal nutrition group, says there are two solutions: squeezing higher yields from existing sources, and developing new supplies....
...A recent report from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (Gain) argues that nutrition plays a critical role in supporting the health of people who are HIV-positive or have Aids....
...The company is also building a UHT milk factory in Nigeria to strengthen its nutrition business....
...• In line with the trend towards healthy eating, retailers are increasingly displaying nutrition labels on products....
...Danone has no experience in clinical nutrition, which contributes just under a third of Numico’s sales, nor of selling baby food outside its home market of France....
...Gates himself is mulling over several new areas of funding that tackle some of the underlying causes of ill-health, including water, sanitation, hygiene and nutrition....
...Just as the nutrition requirements of organisms change as they grow and age, so a business’s money needs change as it matures....
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