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...One advert for Del Monte tomato sauce that read “Hang on, little tomato” inspired her to make her own silkscreen which described Mary as “the juiciest tomato of all”....
...I opt for a lobster spaccatelli while Nooyi, whose options as a vegetarian are more limited, opts for a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup. It’s “exquisite”, she says. At $28, I would hope so....
...Companies are studying their own campaigns to understand user behaviour on Facebook, then packaging their findings in research reports about how the social network is changing how people hear about new brands...
...Smurfit Kappa, Europe’s leading supplier of paper-based packaging, is seeking support from its banks and creditors to extend covenants and maturity on its debts to help overcome the threat of poor trading...
...As a young graduate in finance, who had been educated in France and attended university in Boston in the US, he never dreamt of doing business in Iran....
...Packaging costs should still rise, but not as fast. Foodstuffs, however, have picked up speed....
...Premier claims Branston uses a firmer bean and a more tomato-ey sauce, and it charges more for them. More than a bean war is involved here....
...It also asked for the new warnings about the potential hazards of Advair to be included in packaging....
...DS Smith, the corrugated packaging manufacturer, gained 8.9 per cent to 165½p and pledged to cut costs after it reported lower annual profits....
...BPB was off 1.6 per cent at 509½p after both Credit Suisse First Boston and Numis downgraded the stock in research notes on the sector....
...Corus led the FTSE 100 with a gain of 4.8 per cent to 60.25p after Credit Suisse First Boston reportedly conducted a placing of 54.8m shares at 58p....
...Among technology shares, Intel eased 3 per cent to $23.37 after the stock received a downgrade to "underperform" from analysts at Credit Suisse First Boston....
...Among the small cap stocks, Robinson jumped 46.3 per cent to 120p as the paperboard and plastic packaging manufacturer announced its maiden interim results with pre-tax profits of £0.2m for the six months...
...There's a tremendous scepticism in the equity market about whether these companies can raise prices," says Lars Kjellberg, paper and packaging analyst at CSFB. Is that about to change?...
...Elsewhere in the telecoms sector, BT Group gave up 2.2 per cent to 181.75p after Credit Suisse First Boston lowered its earnings estimates for the telecoms company....
...Credit Suisse First Boston, however, was sceptical of a bid arriving, saying that in both cases Citigroup would have to go hostile, which is not the US financial services company’s style....
...Credit Suisse First Boston reckons HBOS was due a bounce because the potential cost of a bid for Abbey National has already been priced in....
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