TWO members of the glass cartel — Glass South Africa and National Glass Distributors — have settled with the Competition Commission and had their settlement agreements confirmed on Thursday. The Competition Tribunal in June ...
Tags: Construction glass, Glass Cartel
Specialist meat packer Hilton Food Group's strategy of operating with one customer per market could lead it to benefit from the horsemeat crisis, predicted City analyst Shore Capital. Hilton Foods' business model of one customer per ...
Tags: Hilton Foods, Agriculture, Food
Finsbury Food Group is stepping up investment in its core UK bakery division as it slashes debt and announces strong profits in an annual pre-close financial statement. Duffy: sale of 'free-from' business has proven 'hugely beneficial ...
Tags: Marvel, morning goods, Finsbury, free from, Thorntons, Disney, cake, bread
Sausage casings manufacturer Devro has released a first half year trading update, which reports slower than expected revenue growth, with volumes up just 1%. Devro has reported slower than expected revenue growth in an interim trading ...
Tags: Interim trading statement, Devro
Q Cold, a food manufacturer and packaging firm based in Herefordshire, UK, has entered into administration, a move which is likely to result in job cuts. The company has entered into administration following rapid deterioration in trading ...
England-based food and packaging manufacturer Q Cold has entered administration on 20 June 2013 following a sharp deterioration in trading conditions. FRP Advisory partners Chris Stirland and Philip Watkins, and FRP Advisory director ...
The Australian dollar continued to fall today, sparking the biggest one-day sell-off in government bonds since the turmoil in global markets that followed the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in late 2008. Bond traders said ...
Australian stocks have closed flat, with a strong day from the major miners offset by weakness among the banks. The local market took its cues from a positive finish on Wall Street, opening up about 0.3 per cent, but slid into the close ...
Tags: Bank, Sharemarket
Future plc, publisher of Cyclingnews.com, BikeRadar.com and a handful of cycling print publications including Cycling Plus, saw a decline in group revenue of 1 percent in its first financial half, even as digital revenue was up 33 percent ...
Tags: Future plc, Transportation
Toy business grows sharply in 2012; more than 40 new products to arrive this year. 2012 saw a new lease of life breathed into the Chicco brand, says Artsana UK, and there are ambitious plans in place to expand its reach even further in ...
2 Sisters Food Group has proposed the creation of a second shift at a Welsh chicken processing site it bought from Vion, which could create more than 200 jobs. 2 Sisters may create 200 chicken processing jobs in Anglesey The food ...
The South African Competition Commission (SACC) has conducted an investigation into the dealings of six glass suppliers and has charged them with "cartel conduct" and proposed that a penalty be levied against them. The SACC had ...
Tags: Glass Suppliers, glass
M&S delivers strongest quarterly sales growth in the last two years -Group sales +3.1% -Total UK sales +2.6%: Food +6.3%; GM –2.2% -Like for like UK sales +0.6%: Food +4.0%; GM –3.8% -Multi-channel sales +22.9% ...
Tags: Marks&Spencer, Global Sales
COMPANIES that participated in cartel activity in the glass manufacturing industry face prosecution by the Competition Tribunal following an investigation by the Competition Commission. The commission’s investigation, which started ...
Tags: Glass, Furman Glass
The Competition Commission has referred its findings of cartel conduct against Glass South Africa, National Glass, Northern Hardware & Glass, Furman Glass, McCoy’s Glass and AF-FSL Glass to the Competition Tribunal for a hearing The ...