Matthew Freud collected an increased dividend worth around £1.5 million from his public relations firm Freud Communications last year, despite a slide in profits... more
Europe's largest drinks can maker Rexam posted a 19 percent rise in first-half profit, helped by cost savings and higher volumes in standard and speciality cans.... more
Another bid for drugmaker Goldshield? It must be Friday. Stakes in the poker game for Britain’s biggest quoted generic medicines group just seem to get higher and higher as former management bet against the improbably named Fuhrer family of Israel for the Goldshield prize... more
IT’S not often that City Spy is reduced to tears but Lord Bilimoria’s travails after putting his Cobra Beer business into a pre-pack administration (the brewer has been sold to Molson Coors, Bilimoria keeps 49.9% and most of the creditors who are owed £71 million are out of pocket), provoke great waves of sympathy
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The march of Coca-Cola and American consumerism into China was stopped dead in its tracks as the Chinese authorities blocked the US soft drinks giant's takeover of one of the country's best-loved domestic brands... more
New York state could impose a 15 per cent "obesity tax" on high-calorie soft drinks as the governor tries to pay off a crippling $15 billion budget deficit... more
Consumer: Shares in Tate & Lyle plunged to a five-year low on fears its company-changing Splenda sweetener is under worldwide attack from cheap Chinese copycats... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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