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...Joshua Franklin They had one particularly big misstep back in 2020 involving the cosmetics company Revlon....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...A multinational consumer company such as Unilever currently has very little real-time insight into how their products sell at small storefronts in India, for example....
...As always, you can reach us at Imani.Moise@ft.com or Sid.V@ft.com. Thanks for reading....
...EU negotiators are expected to reach a deal on country-by-country tax reporting for multinational corporations....
...diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the ethics behind trials of the Sputnik V...
...Consumers are flocking to use online services and the renaissance of drug development has intensified....
...Global gross domestic product forecasts for the 2020 calendar year had dropped by only 0.2 per cent. However, there has been a significant darkening in opinion in the last few days....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...He founded the team alongside Lachlan Murdoch, son of media tycoon Rupert and chief executive of Fox Corporation....
...This new passion for tackling food loss is also helping sell new financial products....
...Unilever “needs to reinvent itself” and “needs to look more like P&G” by adding “later income cycle adopted products.”...
...An early paper published by the Rand Corporation is The Prediction of Social and Technological Events (1949)....
...My own feeling is that this will not be a V or even a U-shaped recovery, but a downwardly trending W that has a high risk of turning into a L....
...“Addressing climate change in a meaningful way requires global participation and actions by governments, corporations and consumers.”...
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...Starboard is campaigning to replace the board of the company -- which makes consumer products like Rubbermaid plastic containers, coffeemakers and Crock-Pots -- ahead of Newell's annual shareholder meeting...
...Proponents point to the internet’s ability to give a voice, and financial backing, to minorities who have been historically under-represented on screen, in advertising for consumer products....
...But there is no substitute for legislative action — and ceding control to corporations leaves executives selling not just products but also visions of the world....
...He says: “People may say I have created robot lawyers but I say that my products empower consumers.”...
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...In the more prosaic realm of mass consumer products, plastic helped fuel a boom in objects for the home. Manufacturers capitalised on cute....
...This would be good for exports but not consumer spending in the UK....
...(FT) Big time drones Investors reckon unmanned aerial vehicles will overcome regulation and safety concerns and are taking a bet on Chinese consumer drone maker DJI....
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
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