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...These included a number of coffee acquisitions in the US and Atrium Innovations, a Canadian vitamins and nutritional products business....
...However, the industry has done a better job at convincing customers of how frozen products could maintain their nutritional benefits as long as they were healthy foods....
...A growing economy and strong new products helped us execute a very successful plan to conquest customers from other brands,” said Kurt McNeil, GM US sales chief....
...The consumer health business, which makes over-the-counter medicines like pain reliever Advil and nutritional supplement Centrum, generated $3.4bn in sales last year, Pfizer said....
...The green tea debate began after Tod Cooperman, a doctor who runs a website called ConsumerLab.com, which analyses the contents of many nutritional supplements, wrote a post revealing that some supplements...
...The company provides nutritional supplements through a network of distributors. Friends, such as Carl Icahn, call the company a multi-level marketing organisation....
...It has grown to become a supplier that develops, manufactures and distributes over-the-counter and generic prescription pharmaceuticals, infant formulas, nutritional products and active pharmaceutical ingredients...
...But it was his long position in nutritional supplement company Herbalife that made Mr Loeb headline news earlier this year, and earned him a reported $50m profit....
...He has also taken large stakes in Herbalife, the direct selling nutritional supplement maker, and indicated that he might make a bid for Dell, the computer maker....
...“We want to deliver products that investors want and need in an independent structure they can trust,” said Mr McNeil....
...Carl Icahn has thrown down a challenge to his bitter rival Bill Ackman by buying a 13 per cent stake in Herbalife, the nutritional supplement distribution company that Mr Ackman has made the target of a...
...Herbalife shares dropped 12 per cent before recovering the ground, in another day of rollercoaster trading triggered by questions about the business model of the nutritional supplement distributor....
...The move caused jitters among investors in the nutritional supplement company which is under attack from Bill Ackman, the short seller....
...The contest between the rival billionaires centres on the business model of the company, which distributes nutritional supplements in 84 countries and is a prominent sponsor of sports clubs, including the...
...Herbalife, the nutritional supplement company accused of being a pyramid scheme by short seller Bill Ackman, on Thursday lashed out at his Pershing Square hedge fund....
...However, they said it was likely to have had a strong December as Mr Ackman unveiled a high-profile position betting on a fall in the share price in Herbalife, the nutritional supplement direct....
...Shares in Herbalife, the nutritional supplement direct seller, dropped 12.1 per cent to $37.34 as reports said Bill Ackman, the activist investor, is expected to deliver his thesis behind a short position...
...Just months after unveiling a drive into the field of nutritional food and drink – and many more years of chatter about emerging markets – the US beverages group looks set to pull off a $5.4bn deal that...
...Last month, the agency announced a review of “front of package” labelling claiming nutritional benefits, a move that was followed by Kraft, Kellogg and General Mills pulling out of a nutritional labelling...
...ve seen physical gold and oil ETCs as the largest contributors to our assets under management over the past year but interest in other precious metals and agriculture has also been strong,” says Hector McNeil...
...Tate is focusing on ingredients that help its big customers develop products that meet consumers’ nutritional needs, particularly those based on its technological expertise in manipulating carbohydrates....
...Home Depot, the home improvement retailer that sponsors the US national football team, is also backing Univision’s match coverage, along with McNeil’s Tylenol and Allstate Insurance....
...They are upset by the marketing used by McNeil Nutritionals, which owns the Splenda brand and sells the retail product....
...We [consumers] don’t worry about weeds in apple orchards, we worry about the nutritional value of food,” he said....
...According to one recent paper by Chris McNeil and other academics, managers of poorly performing business units within diversified companies are more likely to lose their jobs than chief executives of stand-alone...
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