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...Anselm Heil, lead analyst at Boston Consulting Group, agreed, pointing to a growing cost consciousness among asset managers....
...(FT) One Hong Kong firm is upending Canada’s ginseng industry Hang Fat Ginseng was once a poster child for the new global economy — where North American family farms benefited from free-trade access to...
...For example, in China, the markets for calcium, ginseng, lingzhi, and tonics and nutritive drinks have boomed alongside the growth of older consumers looking for ways to manage their health....
...Packed with exotic ingredients such as taurine, ginseng and guarana as well as copious amounts of caffeine intended to “pack a punch”, energy drinks became a $9bn market in the US last year, according to...
...Flavours with no calories or sweeteners are available, as are ingredients such as ginseng and antioxidants. The message is not winning everyone over, however....
...Celltrion, the biotech company Mr Seo set up in 2002 as a joint venture with VaxGen, a US biotech company, and KT&G, a state-run tobacco and ginseng producer, is now a leading player in the global biosimilars...
...Meanwhile, the main international market for ginseng is in Taiwan....
...Its biggest holdings are in Rowan, a drilling company, WHX, a diversified industrial conglomerate, and KT&G Corp, formerly Korea Tobacco & Ginseng....
...Japan Tobacco, analysts said, is likely to face counterbids from British American Tobacco and JT’s smaller rival, Korean Tobacco & Ginseng....
...The saga has been nothing short of a PR disaster for Korea Inc....
...Sparks is an alcoholic energy drink containing caffeine, taurine, guarana and ginseng....
...Separately, KT&G, South Korea’s largest tobacco and ginseng maker, reported a 16 per cent rise in second-quarter net profit, helped by stronger sales of higher-priced cigarettes....
...By rejecting demands for an immediate spin-off of the ginseng business and a sale of properties, it called the raiders’ bluff....
...led by Carl Icahn, the US financier, have won a board seat at South Korea’s KT&G on the back of support from foreign investors, bringing new momentum to a drive to push through reforms at the tobacco and ginseng...
...Fresh from his Time Warner bout – where he failed to land the killer punch – he is now launching a US $10bn takeover for KT&G in a bid to carve up the South Korean cigarette and ginseng company....
...s largest tobacco and ginseng producer. Its shares on Wednesday rose 2.1 per cent, bucking a 3.1 per cent fall in the Seoul market, boosted by the Financial Times?...
...On Tuesday KT&G said it had no plans to meet his representatives again and it was not considering a listing of its ginseng unit....
...KT&G’s management has responded toMr Icahn’s attentions firmly but calmly, politely rebuffing his demand that the ginseng business be spun off....
...The two research organisations compete fiercely but they do seem to agree on one thing: the biggest deal in Asia in the first three months of the year was a US$8.6bn “offer” for the Korean tobacco and ginseng...
...Then in 2001, Pepsi acquired SoBe, a Connecticut-based company that sells teas and juices infused with ingredients such as ginseng and guaraná....
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