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...“All New Yorkers have a basic right to clean water, yet PepsiCo’s irresponsible packaging and marketing endanger Buffalo’s water supply, environment and public health,” James said on Wednesday....
...with trader Archer Daniels Midland to extend regenerative agriculture across their shared supply chain in North America....
...Problems range from supply chain transparency issues (Apple) to heavy use of packaging (Amazon) to privacy and misinformation (Meta). Take the mammoth $22bn iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF....
...Using less packaging on just one brand of toys could save $2.4mn a year, Scott observed....
...Nestlé is selling its languishing North American water business, while Danone is reviewing both product lines and brands....
...Richard Waters writes that it no longer seems so far-fetched to think of Tan as the most serious consolidator in the software industry since Oracle’s Larry Ellison almost 20 years ago....
...France’s Danone, known for Activia yoghurt and Evian water, has gone the furthest in putting plant-based at the centre of its strategy....
...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...
...That helps explain why a handful of banks have been among the first to dip their toes into the water....
...Within a relatively short space of time, JAB has become the world’s second-largest coffee group — and challenger to Switzerland’s Nestlé, the industry leader....
...He expects Mondelez’s pricing in North America and Europe, which fell 0.6 per cent and 0.1 per cent, respectively, last year, to be “about the same” in 2018....
...Brian Gladden has joined Bain Capital, the private equity group, as an operating partner and CFO specialist within the firm’s North America team....
...Campbell Soup reported organic sales fell 2 per cent in the fourth quarter, weighed by weak demand for its trademark soups in North America....
...triggered a US congressional inquiry that reached damning conclusions. 21st Century Fox’s stand pits it against Google parent company Alphabet, Facebook and other tech groups, highlighting how the power of America...
...According to a McKinsey Global Institute report released in June, cities in Europe, North America, China and East Asia have the most developed technology bases, while those in Latin America, Africa and India...
...Shares in Danone and rivals Unilever and Diageo rose in June after Nestlé was targeted by Dan Loeb’s activist hedge fund Third Point....
...At Frito-Lay North America, the group’s snack business and second largest unit, sales rose 3 per cent to $3.6bn....
...Both companies have been diversifying their range of products away from sweet fizzy fare to energy drinks and more healthy offerings, such as yoghurt drinks, juices, water and milk, as well as smaller cans...
...Boldly not going Ambition in the tech world is still alive and well, writes Richard Waters in Inside Business....
...As Richard Waters reports, he was not pitching Microsoft’s traditional money-earners like Office, Windows and server software, or even its newer cloud computing services....
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...The products passed a one-year shelf life test and other coffee roasters are waiting to buy the packaging too, said UrthPact....
...Additional reporting by Richard Waters in San Francisco...
...Flag as Important Yahoo’s search for relevance Google and Facebook’s purchases of YouTube and Instagram respectively looked expensive at the time, but now seem cheap and prescient, writes Richard Waters...
...She has just completed her first Google search, while her baby daughter gnawed at the corner of the Android phone’s packaging....
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