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...Marketers are increasingly “asking retailers to prove” how much value is added by such advertising, says Paul Frampton, global president of digital marketing consultancy Control v Exposed....
...The average price of a home sold by E&V last year was up 29 per cent on the year before. New buyers and existing owners are using their homes for longer....
...In other deal news, Kraft Heinz has agreed to sell its Planters peanuts and snacks business for $3.35bn....
...Ralph Atkins Lex writer Best of Lex articles Kraft Heinz: playing ketchup Danone v Nestlé: grudge matcha Sainsbury’s/antitrust: Asdaburied Centrica: so last century Wirecard/short selling: the naked...
...It gets straight to the point: We now assume an L-shaped RevPAR recovery (previously V-shaped), based on Jefdata consumer surveys, corporate guidance and industry forecasts. .....
...V Lodge (below) by Reiulf Ramstad Architects (2013) in Norway combines traditional Scandinavian form with modern use of materials — plate-glass windows and plywood interiors....
...Shares in Kraft Heinz have fallen by a third. On a price-to-forward earnings basis, Danone shares are close to their cheapest on record relative to the Swiss rival. Margins have disappointed....
...JAB insists it is not looking for the quick highs sought by private equity. 3G Capital, the group behind Kraft Heinz, had specialised in aggressive cost cutting....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...AKK v YouTube The CDU leader has landed in hot water with the YouTube community after 70 YouTubers called for a boycott of Germany's Conservative party....
...(FT) In the news Kraft’s triple blow Kraft Heinz shares slumped after the food company cut its dividend by more than a third, took a $15.4bn impairment charge and also disclosed that it had received an...
...The artist Grayson Perry’s Brexit vases, which have gone on display in a different part of the V&A, offer a sophisticated variant of the same approach, drawing on crowd-sourced suggestions from Remainers...
...Helped by improving sales volumes, the promised sale of the spreads business and a €6bn share buyback programme, Unilever’s share price is now comfortably above the £40-a-share takeover bid from Kraft-Heinz...
...(FT) Tomayto, tomahto Did Kraft Heinz make $24bn or $6bn since the merger? Depends on which way you look at it....
...EU v Poland latest Brussels has opened a new front in its battle with Warsaw, launching infringement proceedings related to the country's contested supreme court overhaul (FT)....
...Smart reads Hostile defence Unilever chief Paul Polman gets his chance to tell the story of how his company fought off a $143bn hostile bid from Kraft Heinz....
...Polman said: “Ostensibly the bid was from Kraft Heinz, a company less than half our size....
...And it is unclear how much of a boost the commercially successful Batman v Superman which released in the last week of March would provide....
...This facilitated Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital Management’s acquisition of HJ Heinz....
...“They have certainly spurred us on”, Bayern Munich chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said....
...Lansdowne, which Sir Paul co-founded with Steven Heinz in 1998, is one of Europe’s oldest and largest hedge funds, with current assets under management of $12.4bn....
...Much press criticism in Austria has focused on Karl-Heinz Grasser, finance minister from 2000 to 2007....
...“We have been preparing for the past three years,” says Heinz Buhofer, deputy chairman and the public face of the family that controls the group....
...In German wine, dry v sweet is a highly contentious issue with some critics of Germany’s new wave of dry wines sceptical that a wine made from Germany’s most famous grape, Riesling, can be both good and...
...In a reflection of tennis’s schizoid fortunes, the David Nalbandian v James Blake semi-final that followed felt like punishment, almost another sport....
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