PepsiCo has renamed its Quaker Quakes snack line, which is now called Quaker Popped. The company said that the product is a "wholesome" lowr-fat snack solution, containing 10-13 grams of wholegrain per serving. The new name "better ...
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Global snacks group Mondelez International has revealed an R&D site in New Jersey is still closed in the wake of the super storm Hurricane Sandy that swept across the eastern parts of the US this week. Food manufacturers that shut ...
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South African retailer Massmart has booked an increase in annual profits on the back of improved sales. The company, in which Wal-Mart Stores owns a majority stake, yesterday (22 August) filed an 8.9% increase in underlying headline ...
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Wal-Mart Stores has announced it will create 4,000 jobs in Canada this year, in a bid to support the company's growth plans. As a result of the job creations, Wal-Mart will employ 94,000 staff by January 2013. The news forms part of the ...
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US retailer Save Mart has appointed Greg Hill as its CFO. Hill has spent the past 14 years serving on executive leadership teams for both private and public companies, primarily as CFO, but also in general manager and CEO positions. He ...
Former KPMG international chairman Tim Flynn has joined Wal-Mart Stores as a director and will sit on the retail giant's audit committee. Flynn, who spent 32 years at KPMG, joins the US retailer at a time when it is investigating ...
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Shares in US retail giant Wal-Mart slid almost 3% in pre-open trading this morning (16 August), despite a 5.7% increase in second-quarter net income and an improved full-year outlook. The company said today that net income in the three ...
(i) GDP Data In 2005, the GDP of Liaoning province reached RMB800.5 billion yuan, the proportion of the primary industry, the secondary and the tertiary industry was 6.1%, 60.7% and 33.2% respectively, and the per-capita GDP was RMB18, ...
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This week's clutch of featured industry research from the just-food store highlights commodities data from agribusiness specialists LMC International. It also includes in-depth looks at Carrefour's operations in Spain and Wal-Mart Stores' ...
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Canadian retailer Couche-Tard has purchased 27 stores in Eastern Washington State through its subsidiary Cirkle K. The Tri-Cities stores, which operate under the Sun Mart banner, were acquired from Sun Pacific Energy for an undisclosed ...
Walmart, a leading food retailer in the US, has suspended a seafood supplier after an advocacy group for foreign workers released a report revealing poor working conditions at the site. According to the advocacy group, the National ...
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UK supermarket operator Asda has unveiled plans to extend its sustainability partnership with suppliers after the group's investment in sustainability generated an 85% increase in cost savings, which rose to GBP13m (US$20.9m) last year. ...
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US c-store retailer 7-Eleven has acquired more stores, this time adding to its business in North Carolina. 7-Eleven said yesterday (12 November) it had bought 12 outlets from Fast Track Inc. The deal is 7-Eleven's second acquisition in ...
Asda emphasised today (15 November) that it has been able to win over market share as it reported slightly higher third-quarter sales. The UK arm of Wal-Mart said that sales in the three months to 29 September edged up 0.3%. However, the ...
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US retailer Wal-Mart has said that it will continue to focus on delivering low prices to drive higher volumes in the remainder of the year, after booking third-quarter sales and earnings gains. In its third-quarter update today (15 ...
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