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...Rather, it is a wealth-management firm based in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. In fact, the EF Hutton name is included as an “also known as” of Benchmark Investments LLC on Finra’s Brokercheck....
...New York-based General Atlantic, which has $65bn of assets under management, is seeking opportunities to reduce CO2 and methane emissions....
...copies of cow DNA to create animal-free proteins that, it says, come closer to the taste and texture and taste of milk, ice cream, cheese and yoghurt than the current array of oat, almond, soy and cashew dairy...
...Point72 Asset Management has hired Matthew Karchmer as a portfolio manager covering the consumer sector. He was previously at DE Shaw & Co....
...In 2014, Oracle co-chief executive Safra Catz wondered aloud whether SAP might buy Dairy Queen next. But Mr McDermott said the underlying strategy had a simple logic....
...The issue is not new: more than a decade ago, ISS opposed the re-election of Warren Buffett to the board of Coke, as some of his holdings — such as Dairy Queen, which serves Coke products — triggered a conflict...
...Corvex, according to people familiar with the fund’s thinking, is not planning a campaign to shake up management or demand board seats at Danone, which has a market value of €45bn....
...by a foreign buyout firm… “Huarong is attracting interest because it is one of the largest AMCs in China,” Ming Tan, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Jefferies LLC, said today by e-mail....
...Highbridge Capital Management LLC and Pine River Capital Management LP are restarting or expanding their Asian offerings. ” (Bloomberg) COMMENTS & CURIOS Free movement within Europe needs to be less free...
...“The transaction was also unusual for being conditional on the contemporaneous acquisition [of Fredericks Dairies by R&R], which helped bring down the underlying acquisition multiple for PAI.”...
...Don Yacktman, president of Yacktman Asset Management and a PepsiCo shareholder, says that the company remains a good investment in the long term, although its share price could still suffer as it battles...
...The 60-year-old Frenchman, who is also a Kesa Electricals director, has worked for food and consumer goods sectors for 40 years, including dairy groups Bongrain and Lactalis....
...“We are surprised by management’s confidence so early in the year, but the level of pricing plus including Unimilk certainly helps,” he wrote in a report....
...(Carlyle had already ploughed money into a dairy company after careful due diligence to ensure there was no possibility of another melamine-in-the-milk scandal.)...
...He said the group was likely to increase dairy prices in some countries in the second half....
...Some analysts say that to concentrate resources on countries with the greatest growth potential is sensible and that Carrefour is present in too many, which weighs on management time....
...The company has won plaudits for its quirky marketing campaigns – such as the 2007 UK gorilla advertisement which helped increase sales of its core Dairy Milk chocolate brand – and for responding to consumer...
...Durant grew up on his family’s dairy farm north of Paris....
...Of course, nobody wants to hear the words “potentially lethal bacteria” and “Dairy Milk chocolate bar” in the same sentence....
...The primary plaintiff is pension fund Hermes Focus Asset Management but the complaint also lists European asset management funds and US individual investors as plaintiffs....
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