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...Taken together, Thursday’s results tapped into broader concerns that Silicon Valley companies are running out of room to grow, whether from saturation of their services among users in North America and Europe...
...Shares in Danone and rivals Unilever and Diageo rose in June after Nestlé was targeted by Dan Loeb’s activist hedge fund Third Point....
...ULA named Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine its first choice for the new Vulcan rocket when it unveiled the design a year ago at the annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs....
...The engines — powered by methane, a new propellant for US-built engines — will initially power a similar rocket to the Atlas V that ULA powers with Russian-built RD180 engines....
...The River Nar, a minor waterway about 100 miles north of London, is barely known to the average Briton....
...King anticipates that, this spring, an indigo-dyed denim dress (£702) by Marios Schwab and a Givenchy denim bustier (£1,300) with matching ruffled skirt (£700) will be similarly coveted when they hit the...
...Is there enough water there for us to live off? What if the crops fail? And will the spacesuits protect us from radiation?”...
...Nestlé does not report North America separately but groups it with South America, making it difficult to gauge the impact on overall sales....
...“There’s a very important conversation going on about obesity and we want to be part of that,” says Stuart Kronauge, Coke’s head of sparkling beverages in North America....
...It does seem as if Browne has skirted over the point that fracking is hugely controversial, as my colleague Pilita Clark explained back in the spring....
...To some, though, the former were a high-water mark, showing that the large and haphazard collective could unite to do good....
...José Luis Duran, Carrefour’s chief executive, was pushed out and replaced by Lars Olofsson, a top Nestlé manager who agreed to leave the calm banks of Lake Geneva for the more turbulent waters of the Seine...
...Danone, along with other big bottled water producers such as Nestlé (owner of the Vittel, Perrier and Poland Spring brands) and PepsiCo (owner of the Acquafina brand), was hit hard by an environmental backlash...
...Swiss food group Nestlé, which owns bottled water brands such as Perrier and Poland Spring, says: “Our product is probably the healthiest beverage when you consider the growing concern of obesity.”...
...But in recent weeks, the retailer has been the subject of French press reports that it is thinking of pulling out of China and Latin America....
...Next spring the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – the agency that runs the web’s day-to-day operations – plans to allow a dramatic expansion of the 268 “top-level” domains, or everything...
...An investment in Pure Digital Technologies, recently sold to Cisco Systems for $590m, has helped, but Mr Spring says: “We need a few more of these exits.”...
...But many analysts said until Mr Olofsson unveiled his new strategy the company would tread water....
...So he got rid of them, and made the company (owned by Sony BMG) buy a water filtration system instead. “I couldn’t be at this company if they order Poland Spring every week.”...
...At Nestlé, where brands including Vittel, Perrier and Poland Spring contribute 10 per cent or SFr4.9m ($4.4m) to group sales, revenues dropped 1.1 per cent in the first half of the year....
...Irreverent hindsight suggests they should have been titled He Walks on Water, He Takes on Water and Glug Glug. Other authors have weighed in at comparable ponderous length....
...The deal helps Pernod increase its share of the US spirits market to nearly 14 per cent from 8.6 per cent because the bulk of Absolut’s sales are in North America, although the French company still trails...
...It recently launched the water brand Drench for teenagers and plans to introduce two other water brands, Pennine Spring and a Fruit Shoot water brand for children....
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