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...“Pet healthcare can cost the equivalent of private healthcare for humans,” said Zoe Cheng, managing partner of IAM Wealth, an insurance brokerage....
...Union organisers at companies including Starbucks and Amazon have so far struggled to secure new contracts....
...Weihrauch, originally from Denmark, had doubled pet care sales since being put in charge of the division behind Iams and Whiskas in 2014, the group said, establishing it as the industry’s largest company...
...IAM president Robert Martinez Jr called on Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook to immediately recognise the union and begin contract negotiations....
...“The company failed to see the membership’s needs on various issues,” said IAM District 837 president Tom Boelling....
...One company takes the saying more literally: Mars, which owns the world’s largest pet food business alongside chocolate brands from M&Ms to Milky Way, expects its managers to test the Iams, Pedigree and...
...Employees at the store in Towson, a town in Maryland, voted to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) by 65 votes to 33. 5....
...of IAM....
...The company declined to comment on the valuation of the new businesses....
...As he notes, the company had spent nearly $70bn in the previous 20 years on Iams, Clairol, Wella, Fekkai and Gillette, which were mostly flops....
...Aside from its pet food brands, which include Iams, and Banfield pet hospitals, Mars owns companies that provide DNA testing and GPS tracking for pets....
...There is a trend towards premium products. ” Mars spent $2.9bn in 2014 to buy most of the petcare business of Procter & Gamble, acquiring the Iams, Eukanuba and Natura brands....
...The greater openness also reflects Mars’ shift away from a “build not buy” strategy to acquiring companies such as Wrigley and Iams pet care, which has broadened the range of outsiders it has to engage with...
...It had acquired Iams and Eukanuba for $2.3bn in 1999, when it first entered the pet food business....
...At IT market research company Forrester Research, analyst Andras Cser is inclined to agree....
...Under the deal, Mars will acquire Eukanuba and Natura, two pet foods for dogs, and IAMS, which is for cats and dogs....
...Tom Buffenbarger, international president of the IAM, said the agreement’s impact extended far beyond the members who had voted during Friday’s ballot....
...Matt McCormick, fund manager at Bahl & Gaynor, who has a stake in P&G, says Mr Lafley wants to lift P&G back into the category of most respected companies....
...Iam in Hong Kong this week, helping to hand out our awards to Asia’s most innovative lawyers – those that have found the best ways to serve clients in a region complicated by different political and legal...
...How, then, should companies go about introducing it? Not by compulsion....
...Mr Conner said Boeing’s Puget Sound facilities would still be considered for the 777X work, but stressed the company had no plans to resume talks with the IAM union....
...Iam pretty confident about starting and buying companies; but when it comes to being a successful dad, I am much less sure of myself. Perhaps it is true of my whole generation....
...Morten Spenner, chief executive of IAM, said that the $2.4bn fund group now focuses on small and mid-tier consultants instead....
...Morten Spenner, chief executive of IAM, a London-based fund of hedge fund manager, said: “2013 has been difficult for some of the bigger hedge fund names across the board [due to] declining volatility and...
...In August P&G recalled products made by Iams, its biggest-selling pet food brand, and Eukanuba after its own inspections found the potential for salmonella contamination in a separate lot....
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