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...This might help explain why many of the weakest performers among staples have been branded food companies, from General Mills to Smucker’s....
...Colgate-Palmolive, General Mills and Kleenex maker Kimberly-Clark are just a few of the consumer goods companies that have announced price increases this year to help make up the difference....
...General Mills, known for Cheerios cereal and Haagen-Dazs ice cream, has said it is boosting prices across most of its grocery categories and global markets, citing in part the rising cost of shipping....
...Other big names such as Colgate-Palmolive, General Mills and Kimberly-Clark have also announced price increases....
...In the personal care and household products category, potential takeover targets for 3G could include Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark and Clorox....
...Here are the usual suspects: Unilever (still a possibility), Mondelez, Colgate, Kimberly-Clark, General Mills, Kellogg and Clorox. But several analysts also suggest that Pepsi could be a target....
...“There are lots of Edens out there,” says Kimberly Zeuli, a former economist at the Richmond Federal Reserve, who authored a 2013 study of the town’s post-textile woes....
...General Mills shares fell 2.4 per cent to $49.77....
...It’s certainly not your average run-of-the mill equity instrument....
...Investors haven’t been put off by Mills’ death....
...P&G’s list of partners includes other large corporations, such as food groups ConAgra and General Mills, and rivals, including its Glad brand plastic bag joint venture with Clorox, set up in 2003....
...Mills, although TerraCycle’s turnover was just $12.5m (€8.7m, £7.8m) last year....
...The programme allows Kroger customers to use their mobile phones to load coupons from Kimberly-Clark, General Mills, Clorox and others on to their Kroger Plus supermarket loyalty cards....
...Over the summer, the larger US food companies reported continued strength in their international operations during their second quarters, with General Mills saying it was expecting “continued strong top...
...As CEO, he oversaw a restructuring that eventually led to disposal of the company’s pulp mills, while digesting the $9.4bn acquisition of Scott Paper....
...Corruption in government, brutality in the (first) Chechen war, chaos in public services – all were grist to the Kukly mills....
...In 2002, as president and chief operating officer, he played a leading role in the gradual disposal of the company’s pulp mills and fine paper business – moving Kimberly-Clark from its roots in paper manufacturing...
...Mr Moeller says Koch’s interest in Georgia Pacific grew out of its purchase of the two pulp mills....
...Outside one fire station, firefighters mill around with no obvious purpose....
...Back in the 1980s, General Mills, the US food group, launched a new Hallowe'en cereal on the unsuspecting but sweet-toothed American public....
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