Credit Suisse tells investors that fears about the Chinese economy are overdone, as it persuades them that mining stocks have been sold off too heavily... more
Cadbury takeover: Let no one say FTSE 100 chairmen don’t earn their money. For the last few months, Roger Carr has been working flat out, defending Cadbury against Kraft... more
The future of Cadbury is in the balance as Kraft and Hershey put the finishing touches to rival takeover offers for the maker of Dairy Milk chocolate... more
Cadbury shares fall sharply after an intervention by investor Warren Buffett, bringing them to less than one per cent above Kraft’s £10.4 billion takeover bid... more
Any chocolate-lover knows that the American version is much sweeter than the bars on the shelves of our British corner shops, but despite Kraft’s latest tweak to its takeover offer for Cadbury, the deal still does not look sweet enough to lure investors... more
Just as a child with a fistful of pocket money is more likely to spend it at the sweet shop than hoard it in a piggy bank, Nestlé is unlikely to ignore the lure of shopping after scooping
$28.1 billion from the sale of Alcon... more
How many truly brilliant people do you know? I mean brilliant, not just clever-clever. Extrapolating from that number - which is probably no higher than zero, and is certainly lower than three - how many truly brilliant people are there in the whole world?... more
Defenders of corporate Britain hopeful that Cadbury can fend off a £10.3 billion offer from Kraft Foods got a boost when the chocolate maker issued a feisty response to the takeover bid... more
There's a common view forming in the City regarding Kraft's bid for Cadbury and this is it: Irene Rosenfeld is making a curly-wurly of the deal... more
Kraft's £9.8 billion hostile bid for Cadbury will begin in earnest today, when the American food giant posts the details of the offer to shareholders of the Dairy Milk maker... more
According to a close friend of Roger Carr, “this is a great moment for him — he feels everything in his career has led to this. He’s not being arrogant or overconfident. He just feels he’s uniquely placed... more
Cadbury shares raced to another record high this morning as investors bet that a fierce bidding war for control of the 185-year old company is about to breakout... more
Italian chocolate maker Ferrero could be interested in Cadbury’s gum and candy division, a unit worth about £5 billion, in a possible joint takeover bid, business daily Il Sole 24 Ore said ... more
Italian chocolate maker Ferrero could be interested in Cadbury's gum and candy division, a unit worth about £5 billion, in a possible joint takeover bid... more
A foreign takeover of Cadbury looked all but certain tonight after US giant Hershey and Italy’s Ferrero confirmed they are considering bids to counter the low-ball offer from Kraft ... more
Cadbury shares are moving upwards as market-makers bet that suitor Kraft will soon make an improved takeover offer for the 185-year-old business... more
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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