Hints and tips:
...United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI), a grocery wholesaler, is suing Goldman in a New York state court over the bank’s work on a messy $3bn acquisition....
...“There are also changes in agriculture which are being driven more by customers than food companies....
...(Reuters) Apple v WeChat The biggest rival to Apple’s flagship smartphone in China is a messaging app that allows users to pay for food, hail cabs, stream video and more....
...Sales were helped by the first signs of food price inflation after a ferocious price war....
...Together, they have given Mr Ashford a two-to-one fundraising advantage over his Republican rival, who in any other election year might have been a more natural target of their largesse....
...Cargill still operates in Venezuela, selling feeds and foods such as flour, pasta and oils....
...The proposal from Pilgrim’s comes less than a month after Hillshire signed a deal to acquire Pinnacle Foods for $6.6bn....
...Like most tech companies, Uber has a well-stocked staff canteen; others use food-delivery apps....
...Speakers at the conference noted it is no longer enough for the energy sector to focus solely on oil, natural gas or power....
...Allegheny Technologies , the speciality metals producer, added 4.6 per cent to $33.25, while United States Steel rose 4.4 per cent to $21.61....
...There was unusual trading in the shares of Dole Food, Radio Shack, CoreLogic, and, on European bourses, Unilever, Alcatel-Lucent and Anheuser-Busch....
...The trio paid $2.8bn for the former trading arm of ConAgra Foods at the height of the last commodity boom in 2008....
...The move on Viterra comes as Glencore is also trying to merge with Xstrata, the London-listed miner, to create a $90bn natural resources powerhouse....
...Tokyo has urged the five sogo shosha – Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Sumitomo, Itochu and Marubeni – to use the current strong exchange rate of the yen to secure natural resources....
...The price of orange juice futures contracts hit a 34-year high on Tuesday after the main US food safety regulator said it would block imports containing a fungicide commonly used in Brazil, the leading producer...
...China, which was developing large domestic industry, has scaled back its original ambitions because of concerns over higher food prices....
...In China, food inflation concerns could make the country more reliant on the global food market, the USDA reported....
...Only during the 2007-08 food crisis did farmers ship more grains and oilseeds overseas....
...Aside from manufacturing, and companies with strong allegiances to the city such as the food group Heinz and GSK, the other pillar of Pittsburgh’s corporate edifice is financial services....
...A year later in KSR v....
...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....
...And in India, there is more demand for more money, because of the increase in cost of living there,” says K.V....
...That has led some observers to question whether it is economically sustainable to continue to rely on a major food crop as a source of fuel....
...Galloways face new claims over oil and cash George Galloway and his wife faced fresh allegations yesterday over the illicit receipt of money from Saddam Hussein’s oil-for-food programme....
...The S&P food and staples retail index gained 2.4 per cent....
International Edition