Hints and tips:
...Job moves Brian Sheth, who co-founded Vista Equity Partners alongside Robert Smith, is leaving the software buyout group....
...After talks at the US-India trade policy forum last year, the office of Robert Lighthizer, US trade representative, released a terse statement....
...And Danone has already announced reasonably ambitious targets of €1bn in cost savings and improving dairy margins by 200 basis points.”...
...Emmanuel Faber, chief executive of Danone, the French dairy and nutrition company, was asked whether he felt vulnerable, given the company’s recent underperformance....
...LDC also wants joint venture partners for its dairy, metals and orange juice units to boost their reach and competitiveness....
...These include its metals, dairy, fertiliser and orange juice units. Dreyfus is one of the world’s largest juice processors, owning several factories, as well as orange groves....
...Dean Foods shares gained 5 per cent to $18.86 after the dairy company reported better-than expected third-quarter results and issued current quarter profit outlook that topped estimates....
...We are proud that our firm is called Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.”...
...At last report, these also included interests in Coca-Cola, a sugary drinks maker; Wrigley, a chewing gum and confectionery concern; Heinz, the ketchup kings (at least in my house); as well as owning Dairy...
...As Robert Parkinson, at recruitment company RMG Selection, says: “The cost of living in Beijing is just crazy for younger workers.”...
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com...
...At 41 per cent, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the adult obesity rate in Holmes county, where Tchula lies, is a full five points above the Mississippi level....
...His view is echoed by a food safety executive at Bright Foods, the Shanghai-based dairy group. “The government’s sampling inspection also happens more frequently in recent years....
...This has already claimed casualties including Robert Wiseman Dairies, whose share price dived following a profit warning before it was swallowed up earlier this year by Müller, the German dairy group....
...The year’s first casualty of consolidation – although, given the generous premium paid, shareholders may view it more as a lucky exit – was Robert Wiseman Dairies....
...Danone’s baby nutrition unit had sales last year of €3.7bn, overtaking water to become its second largest business by sales after dairy, which had sales of €11.3bn....
...Robert Wiseman jumped 18.1 per cent to 387½p after the dairy agreed to be bought by Müller at 390p a share, plus a 5¾p dividend....
...A report funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation last year suggested that PepsiCo might have had the right idea all along, finding that products with fewer calories, dairy and whole grains were driving...
...Eight supermarkets and dairies have been fined nearly £50m after the Office of Fair Trading found they had fixed dairy product prices following a controversial and chaotic eight-year investigation....
...It has already invested in many companies in the region, among them a dairy company in Maanshan (“We own 110,000 cows,” Kravis says proudly); a finance firm in Shanghai; a beer company in South Korea and...
...BP was forced to pull its Arctic deal with Rosneft following legal threats from its oligarch partners in TNK-BP, while three years earlier Robert Dudley, then head of TNK-BP, was kicked out of the country...
...From here, Robert Erhard, a Swiss agronomist and Nestlé’s corporate fresh milk and agriculture service manager for greater China, spends his days coaxing farmers and anyone else – from suppliers of antiseptic...
...the spoils - Capital Shopping Centres rejigs Trafford deal - Danish group breaks takeover talks with Apax - US mulls menthol cigarette ban - Chinese demand boosts headhunter Robert...
...Robert Wiseman Dairies, up 0.3 per cent to 324p, was another candidate to be relegated from the mid-caps....
...The OFT has slashed from £116m to £70m the maximum penalties it plans to impose on a group of seven businesses – Asda, Dairy Crest, Lactalis McLelland, Safeway, J Sainsbury, The Cheese Company and Robert...
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