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...Part of the reason may have been a soft earnings report from ConAgra, the packaged food company. The chief executive said consumers were stretched and cutting back on spending....
...The whiskey brand’s sales have increased threefold since the takeover in 2009, according to the company’s data....
...Even among listed companies, recent research by Credit Suisse revealed that family-controlled companies — defined as those in which the founder or their family owns 20 per cent of shares of votes — have...
...An increase in sales was driven by “strategic menu price increases”, the company said....
...The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite rose 0.9 per cent, while the Russell 2000 index of small-cap companies advanced 1.8 per cent....
...Limited cost savings and the apparent blessing of key shareholder The Coca-Cola Company make any counter offer unlikely. Operating margins were about 13 per cent at both groups in 2019....
...Tesla said it had designed new manufacturing techniques for its cells, modelled on bottling plants and paper mills, that would increase the output of its production lines seven-fold, reducing the capital...
...Some companies say minimising the risk to employees is not straightforward....
...Canned wine was included in a list of eight “best sectors for launching a business in 2018” by Inc Magazine....
...holding in Cathay and other aviation businesses, which accounted for 18 per cent of Swire’s 2018 revenues, its interests in mainland China range from high-end hotel and retail developments to 18 Coca-Cola bottling...
...That was the year he paid $12bn for the US assets of Coca-Cola Enterprises, its largest bottling partner, shaking up a century-old relationship that had separated the brand from the bottling franchisees...
...They are the real thing, more tangible than a secret recipe for sweet syrup, marketed on television and billboards, distributed by bottling companies and sold by supermarkets....
...This raises suspicions that the real driver for the Keurig-Dr Pepper combination was not the strength of Orangina and Canada Dry, but the chance to cut costs and appropriate the company’s US bottling and...
...Coke has been undergoing a broad restructuring as it moves away from bottling and distribution, which has affected its income statements in the past few years....
...The company plans to promote the new product with splashy adverts at next month’s Academy Awards....
...PepsiCo said on Thursday it had decided to sell up to all of its long-held 4.5 per cent stake in Britvic, the British soft drinks company which is its UK bottler....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on December 26. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The Atlanta-based company has been selling off chunks of its bottling divisions to diversify away from fizzy drinks....
...When she went shopping for a bottling factory for her Ellis Island Tropical Tea, a hibiscus tea based on her African Nationalist great-grandfather’s recipe from Jamaica, Ellis-Brown could not even get an...
...In Sunnyvale, just 10 minutes’ drive from the group’s current Cupertino headquarters, Apple has leased buildings including a former Pepsi Cola bottling plant on five acres of land, according to city filings...
...Whereas free-wheeling Silicon Valley tends to see EU regulators as a nuisance or business risk, some companies actively want Brussels to intervene....
...He said Coke has invested, together with its local bottling partner, in Nigeria since 1951....
...The UK has scrapped plans to introduce a sugar tax of up to 20 per cent but companies will be expected to reformulate their products to reduce sugar content....
...Coca-Cola Company, however, still has bottling operations outside the US including via a German company it owns, Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke....
...A tie-up would follow last year’s agreement between SABMiller, the brewing and beverage company, and the Coca-Cola Company to combine their bottling businesses in 12 African countries....
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