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...Although its parent company, Interpublic Group Cos Inc, installed female leadership at the Martin Agency, IPG’s board remained the same....
...This puts the sector on a relative P/E premium of 29% on NTM+1 (Apr 21-Mar 22), 18.5x for Beverages vs 14.3x for the Market....
...It saw opportunities in mixing hot beverages and fizzy cold drinks. Here’s a tip: don’t try that at home. Mr Becht was an operations guy, rather than a visionary or banker....
...These included acquisitions such as Ewos, a Norwegian salmon feed company, and Diamond V, a manufacturer of yeast culture products to aid animal health....
...Diamond V manufactures natural yeast culture products that help animal health....
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
...Pizza sales rose two-thirds on the day of the England v Wales match alone, but were generally higher throughout the tournament....
...He describes the experience as a fast-track management course, including the tricky issue of family relations....
...(WSJ) COMMENTS etc For Moscow, Ukraine is always ‘Little Russia’ (Reuters) Europe has to stop hiding beneath the bedcovers (Financial Times, Stephens) US v China: is this the new cold war?...
...Britain’s seemingly insatiable appetite for coffee has lifted sales by a third at Benugo, the coffee bar and restaurant chain, that serves visitors to London’s V&A museum, the BFI Southbank and Edinburgh...
...These include UK/Prussia v France at Waterloo in 1815, UK/France v Germany between 1914 and 1918 and France/Germany v UK in Brussels ever since 1973....
...“There have been a lot [of product launches] under Kraft, for example the Spots v Stripes Challenge Bar as part of the Olympic campaign,” he says....
...V.G. Siddhartha is a reluctant interviewee. Initially rebuffing a request from the Financial Times, he politely e-mailed: “I don’t think I have got any great story at this time.”...
...“If this was really a fraud case, they wouldn’t have worked that hard,” said Hong, 27, a food and beverage director at the Iroquois Hotel in midtown Manhattan, adding that she would invest with the two men...
...But it is struggling with V-water, PepsiCo’s vitamin water brand, which Britvic makes and distributes. V-water is less suited to a recession as it is high-priced in a relatively new category....
...The group, which is one of the world’s 10 biggest alcoholic beverage companies, is valued at between $5bn and $7bn....
...Cott Corp, a Canadian maker of private-label drinks for such retailers as Wal-Mart, is talking with private equity firms about joining its operations with Cadbury Schweppes’ beverage arm, reports the Wall...
...Analysts believe Cott could benefit by combining its bottling systems with Cadbury’s....
...V&S is one of the world’s 10 biggest alcoholic beverage companies, worth between $5bn and $7bn, and the Swedish government has received expressions of interest from drinks groups including Fortune Brands...
...V&S is one of the world’s 10 biggest beverage companies and the Swedish government has already received expressions of interest from leading drinks groups including Fortune Brands, Bacardi, Diageo, Pernod...
...In Stoneridge Investment Partners v Scientific Atlanta , the court is considering whether investors can recover from firms – including accountants, lawyers and bankers – that help a public company commit...
...Last week Cott Corporation, which makes soft drinks for Wal-Mart, issued a profit warning, blaming weak soft drink volumes and rising raw materials costs....
...The company’s worldwide food and beverage manager is lurking with intent. Unhappy that breakfast had been sparsely attended, he wants to stretch the staff at tea, “to rattle the cages a bit more”....
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