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...Premium brands will likely hold up, as will value, but ‘me too’ mass brands are at risk,” said Warren Ackerman, analyst at Barclays....
...Big consumer companies will look at brands offering “a specific consumer proposition” rather than generic compounds such as vitamins A, B and C, said Mr Ackerman....
...Nestlé outperformed these companies in terms of volumes sold, according to OC&C, the consultants. The worst-performing food companies are in the US....
...overall strong performance, top-line growth in homecare was undermined by operating margins which at 4.9 per cent were less than half those of rivals Procter & Gamble and Germany’s Henkel, noted Warren Ackerman...
...Americans Elect is the brainchild of Peter Ackerman, a wealthy financier with a longstanding interest in non-violent civil resistance who has contributed more than $5m of his own money to get it off the...
...“There may need to be a total cut-off of all aid to the Palestinians for pursuing this course of action [at the UN], which is very dangerous and ill-advised,” said Gary Ackerman of New York....
...Mr Ackerman said he could not determine the impact on the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings of the tactics he promoted....
...by both law and decency to withhold any assistance that could fall into the hands or control or even partial control of anyone reporting to, or belonging to a terrorist entity, as is Hamas,” said Gary Ackerman...
...The average fire is 850°C. We learnt later this one was 2,400°C – the temperature at which a crematorium operates. It was absolutely terrifying. I could mostly see smoke....
...It prompted US congressman Gary Ackerman to ask: “Couldn’t you all have downgraded to first class or jet-pooled or something to get here? It would have at least sent a message that you do get it.”...
...The White House is struggling to control what Gary Ackerman, a Democratic congressman for New York, described as a “tidal wave of rage” among Americans as taxpayers realise they are the “ultimate sucker”...
...delicious irony of seeing private luxury jets flying into DC and people coming off them with tin cups in their hands, saying that they’re going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses,” Gary Ackerman...
...US president, has come in for criticism from a number of Republican and Democratic lawmakers – most recently in a public letter issued on Tuesday, which had 135 signatories and was co-sponsored by Gary Ackerman...
...A genuine warmth appears to have developed between many senior bankers and policymakers who have collaborated over the past two months to turn a “real crisis into a somewhat better situation”, as Josef Ackerman...
...It declined to give details but said it was not involved in Mr Ackerman’s work in Dubai....
...Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, and Duane Ackerman, chief executive of BellSouth, were among the hosts of a fund-raiser for Perdue at the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce last nig ht....
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