Hormel Foods will acquire the Skippy peanut butter brand from Unilever for a consideration of around US$700m, it emerged today (3 January). Unilever, which announced it was "considering options" for Skippy in October, announced this ...
Tags: Hormel Foods, Skippy, acquisition, peanut butter brand, food industry
CAMBRIDGE, UK, September 13, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Synthetix, the customer service software company, has been commissioned by HGS UK to build a live chat service for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It will be offered at first to ...
Tags: Synthetix, live chat service, office passport, customer service software
Informed sources say potential buyers for R&R Ice Cream put their first-round bids on the table this week – with the firm founded by US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney rumoured to be in the running. var ...
Tags: Mitt Romney, R&R Ice Cream, Agriculture, Food
Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs and into c, it was claimed this week. Dial-up supercomputing services are making it possible for smaller companies to analyse vast quantities of data, run engineering ...
Informed sources say potential buyers for R&R Ice Cream put their first-round bids on the table this week – with the firm founded by US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney rumoured to be in the running. Bain capital ...
Tags: Private Equity Firms, Majority Stake, Ice Cream, Food
From a sustainability standpoint, 2012 might be characterised as a year when the world went backwards - or at a pinch stayed still - but the food industry moved forward. There are plenty of campaigners who would beg to differ on the ...
Tags: CSR, Industry, Agriculture Food
It's the time of the year when we look back at the 12 months just past to see what was getting you clicking on just-food. The ten most-read news stories of 2012 include UK grocers signing a code of conduct on promos and Tesco announcing it ...
John Rishton, the former chief executive of Dutch retailer Ahold, is set to take a seat on Unilever's boards of directors, the consumer goods giant said today (17 December). Rishton, who was Ahold boss between 2007 and 2011, will be put ...
Tags: John Rishton, Dutch retailer Ahold, Food
Unilever has agreed a five-year HR BPO contract with Accenture to expand the manufacturer's recruitment activity into social networking. The contract extension will see outcome-based targets as well as the traditional service level ...
Tags: Unilever, Social Networking, Recruitment
Clariant, a world leader in Specialty Chemicals, joins high-level discussions shaping the future of the fabric and home care industry at the AOCS World Conference in Singapore, October 29-31, 2012. The inaugural event includes key note ...
The first of its kind, the inaugural L2′s Digital IQ Index: Fragrance report benchmarks the digital competence of global fragrance brands, looking at 350 data points across four dimensions: Site, Digital Marketing, Social Media, and ...
The UK government has injected a second round of cash into its pound 25m Higher Apprenticeship Fund. The funding aims to develop 4,230 new Higher Apprenticeships in sectors including low-carbon engineering, space engineering, legal ...
According to Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of software tools company Software AG, the time for big IT transformation is over. People no longer buy exciting IT. Rather, IT must compete for investment. The question is, where will this investment ...
Tags: Gartner Symposium, Barcelona, Digitisation
Unilever has attained the UK sales and distribution rights to dairy-free ice cream brand Swedish Glace, a year after acquiring its Finnish owner. The company will take on the sales and distribution in January from local dairy group ...
Tags: Unilever, Faye Bradford, Swedish Glace, Fayrefield Foods
Consumer goods giant Unilever is looking at how it can optimise its global operations using SAP’s HANA in-memory database. The company has been consolidating its SAP systems over the past 20 years and now runs 4 regional systems. ...
Tags: Unilever, Global HANA