The UK Office of Fair Trading is investigating whether in-app payments on smartphones and tablet computers are illegally encouraging children to spend money. The investigation follows several recent cases in which children have spent ...
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Yorkshire-based R&R Ice Cream has acquired the Lancashire family-owned ice cream maker Fredericks Dairies in a 49M deal. R&R Ice Cream has acquired Fredericks Dairies, which makes ice creams and iced refreshment for brands such as Cadbury ...
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Europe’s leading own label ice cream manufacturer R&R Ice Cream has agreed to acquire UK-based ice cream producer Fredericks Dairies for £49m. Fredericks Dairies, headquartered in Skelmersdale, England, has license to ...
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Tesco is to step up its assault in the e-commerce space with the launch of two specialist websites for e-books and music later this year. The firm has hired Facebook's head of retail for EMEA, Gavin Sathianathan, to lead Blinkboxbooks, ...
Tags: Tesco, e-commerce, e-books
Instagram has asked a court to dismiss a class-action lawsuit against changes in its terms of use, holding that the petitioner had the option to terminate her account if she disagreed with the new terms. The photo-sharing service, ...
Britvic’s merger with AG Barr has been delayed by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which extended its timetable for a decision today (January 14). Britvic makes Tango, Robinsons, J2O and Fruit Shoot After shareholders voted to ...
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has written to over 50 of the leading installers of energy efficient products such as LED lights, double glazing, insulation and solar panels, to ask them to ensure they provide consistently good standards. ...
Tags: OFT, energy efficient products, LED lights, double glazing, insulation
Predictive analytics helps firms to get "about three per cent better at guessing" what a consumer would like to buy, according to the founder and chief of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), Jim Manzi. "Realistically, what predictive ...
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The deal, which was first announced in November, will see four Contego facilities – in Leeds and Gillingham in the UK, Hoogerheide in the Netherlands and Portlaiose in Ireland – transfer to the US-based cartons giant. It then ...
Tags: Graphic Packaging, Fair Trading, cartons, food packaging
UK-based Contego Packaging has finalized sale proceedings of its food and beverage Cartons business to Graphic Packaging Holding Company. According to the company, the acquisition, which received approval from the Office of Fair Trading ...
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The company told Instagram fans it has no intention of selling photos after its new terms and conditions sparked outrage among users yesterday. The photo-sharing service saw many of its users threaten to delete their accounts after it ...
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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched an investigation into the extent to which businesses are using customer data to target consumers with personalised prices. In July, Computing looked into the proposition of companies such as ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved social network Facebook's proposed acquisition of mobile photo-sharing service Instagram. The approval comes a week after the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) cleared the deal, giving ...
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Facebook has paid far lower than the announced $1 billion in cash and stock for photo-sharing app Instagram, following a drop in its share price. The social networking company said in its Form 10-Q quarterly report to the U.S. Securities ...
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The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) said that Supermarkets are using 'copycat' packaging of food brands to mislead consumers into buying private-label products. According to the agency, major supermarket are indulge in copying ...