Swiss food giant Nestlé has opened a new experimental farm in Coted’Ivoire to focus on plant science and research into nutrition, sustainable agriculture and rural development. The farm is located at Zambakro, 18km away from ...
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Swiss food giant Nestlé has unveiled plans to sell its 10% stake in Swiss flavorings maker Givaudan in a deal worth over $1bn, as part of its efforts to focus more on its core food businesses. The company has launched the sale of ...
Swiss food giant Nestlé is launching new environmentally efficient ice cream freezers, developed using natural refrigerants across Europe. The move is part of Nestlé's commitment to progressively phase out the use of high ...
Swiss food giant Nestlé has signed a deal with US-based private equity firm North Castle Partners to sell its Jenny Craig businesses in North America and Oceania, for an undisclosed amount. Established in 1983, Jenny Craig offers ...
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Shuanghui International, a Chinese food giant, is seeking to raise up to $6bn through an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong in the second quarter of 2014. The Chinese firm recently acquired US-based hog and pork processor ...
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Swiss food giant Nestlé has announced its commitment to achieve zero waste in all of its 150 European factories by 2020. The environmental sustainability pledge was made at a European Policy Centre event on food sustainability in ...
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The recent commercial history of market research organisation Nielsen is a good example of how expectations and capabilities have changed radically in the world of analytics. Retailers employing Nielsen to provide services such as retail ...
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Brand design agency bluemarlin has created packaging for Swiss food giant Nestlé’s new range of WONKA chocolate blocks, launched in August this year. The range includes four varieties Triple Chocolate Whipple, Nutty ...
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Swiss food giant Nestlé has won a UK court appeal ruling against Cadbury over the latter's attempt to trademark the purple color packaging of its Dairy Milk bars. With this development, the Swiss firm overturned a decision from ...
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Swiss food giant Nestlé is considering options to divest its PowerBar energy bars brand, as it is facing stiffened competition from other brands. The sale could fetch millions of dollars to Nestlé, reported Reuters citing ...
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Shuanghui International, a Chinese food giant, is hopeful of closing the $4.7bn acquisition of American pork producer Smithfield Foods by 26 September 2013, following the approvals from the latter's stakeholders. The American producer has ...
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US-based meat processing firm Pilgrim's Pride is set to shut down its cooking and cold storage facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee within the next two weeks, eliminating 200 jobs at the facilities. The planned closure is a part of the ...
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Swiss food giant Nestlé has opened two new factories in China - a Yinlu Foods facility in Anhui Province and a Nescafé coffee factory in Shandong Province, with an investment of CHF319m ($336m) and CHF133m ($140.1m) ...
French retail giant Carrefour is said to quit the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Sources said recently that Carrefour, the biggest retailer in the world and the second-biggest one in Europe, was considering selling business in both the ...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) authorities have opposed US-based food giant HJ Heinz's proposed acquisition of organic baby food producer Rafferty's Garden. This decision follows a review of the transaction for ...
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