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...Many low-sugar brands rely on sweeteners called polyols, which can have laxative effects when consumed in large quantities or by people with digestive problems....
...Alaska may not think about the deal in these exact terms, but this is a move where currency could prove a huge sweetener....
...Yet the reformulation failed to prevent a further dip in sales and the drinks-and-snacks company reintroduced the sweetener a year later....
...Bonhams therefore can avoid overambitious estimates to win consignments and limit incentives such as guarantees and other profit-sharing sweeteners....
...Such sweeteners include so-called co-investments, which often allow investors to participate in deals without having to pay management fees....
...Tuesday’s ruling marked a drastic about-turn in the software company’s first clash with US antitrust authorities since they sought to break up the company at the end of the 1990s....
...But Activision’s board could demand some sort of financial sweetener to extend the deal to allow for regulatory approval....
...The holding company The Roy family runs a holding company — a vehicle used to control interests in other companies....
...In recent deals, some desperate Spac sponsors are letting ordinary investors invest at far less than $10 a share, or even handing over their own share allocations as sweeteners, to keep them from exercising...
...A wave of online-only pension companies has been launched in recent years, all vying for a slice of the £1tn retirement savings market. UK savers are being enticed with sweeteners to sign up with them....
...It offered a handful of sweeteners, including the opportunity for the hacker to become its chief security adviser and renewed an offer to provide a bounty totalling half a million dollars....
...Sugar is giving way to sweeteners in a drinks industry imperilled by health concerns....
...The financiers were there to meet Yasir al-Rumayyan, the state oil company’s chairman and the head of the country’s sovereign wealth fund, along with cabinet ministers and the company’s leadership....
...But even without prodding from the state, Japanese companies — since before the outbreak — have buried old rivalries, giving rise to a string of tie-ups in motorcycles, construction companies and drugstore...
...by the Hollywood mogul Ryan Kavanaugh and the rapper Snoop Dogg, and Byte, an app launched by the former founder of Vine, are charging into the space in a bid to lure users, with some offering financial sweeteners...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on June 28 2020. @2020 Nikkei Inc....
...In the meantime, they are compensated with an interest rate of 10 per cent over Libor on their money — a sweetener that makes the package far more advantageous than even the $18bn headline figure makes it...
...There is one interesting sweetener Mallinckrodt has thrown into the pot....
...All said, watch out for Japan Inc....
...DD’s Sujeet Indap did some illustrative maths to show that given the modest equity sweetener and a mostly free subsidy to Delta, the US taxpayer would almost certainly be earning a negative rate of return...
...PS: I’ve no idea why the company called itself FoodMarble, as in form – if not function – its product looks more like a tiny cigarette lighter. FoodMarble Aire, £149, from foodmarble.com....
...The trouble for many of these companies is that private markets are febrile too. Even those with stronger pedigrees are having to fight for funds, offering sweeteners or pruned valuations....
...Lower sweeteners and starches profits weighed on the performance of Cargill’s food ingredients and applications unit....
...In May, NYSE offered sweeteners to attract businesses that have yearly revenues of less than $5m and market capitalisations of at least $200m, cutting listing fees by 75 per cent and imposing a $100,000...
...Reverse the numbers, and if Apple were to pay $240 per share now it would cost the hardware company $51bn....
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