If you're setting up on your own, the easy thing is to do what you've been doing - and hope a fair wind and your contacts book will pull you along. It's much harder to attempt something quite different - one that will win you few friends in the industry you're in... more
At the great Pick ’n’ Mix counter that passes for proud British business these days, such is the alacrity with which our brands fall to the foreign shopper, it’s time to hand out some awards... more
Todd Stitzer and his chairman Roger Carr can be forgiven their bloodshot eyes - it was 4am by the time the time they walked out of talks with Kraft... more
Cadbury comment: To hear the way chairman Roger Carr mouthed off against the Kraft takeover you could be forgiven for believing Cadbury would be sold to the Yanks only over his dead body... more
The takeover of Cadbury by US food giant Kraft is inevitably being seen as a tragedy for a British business whose brands hold happy associations for many... 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
No one can accuse Cadbury's top managment team of fence-sitting. The conference call this morning, where chairman Roger Carr and chief executive Todd Stitzer dismissed, again, the hostile bid from Kraft, was punchy to say the least... more
Cadbury issues a stern rebuke to Kraft Foods, portraying the American giant as a failing company that does not deserve to win its £10.5 billion takeover bid... 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
Cadbury announced today that on 14 December it will post a formal response to Kraft’s £10.1 billion takeover bid which was sent to shareholders on Friday... more
Comedy lawsuit of the week comes from something called the Steward International Enhanced Index Fund, which is suing Cadbury’s top brass for daring not to embrace a (putative) bid from Kraft Foods ... more
Analysis: Merger mania is back in America and Wall Street bankers who have spent the last year wandering in a fruitless and miserable wasteland are clamouring for a piece of the action... more
The takeover battle for Cadbury was ignited after a City broker claimed the Dairy Milk firm's boss had indicated a fair price for Cadbury would be more than £12 billion or 900p a share... more
SO farewell to Andy Duncan, who has bowed to the inevitable and stepped down as chief executive of Channel 4 before having to face the elite of the British TV industry at the Cambridge Media Convention... more
Let's be clear about Kraft Foods: it is a global, rapacious and ruthless entity. It has zero interest in the well-being of Cadbury, certainly not its staff... more
There was a buzz in the City this morning, the like of which we’ve not experienced for the best part of two years. That was when Alliance UniChem, led by Stefano Pessina, paid £12 billion for Boots ... more
Dairy Milk maker Cadbury today reported a 10% surge in chocolate sales as sweet-toothed customers struggling through the recession stayed in at night with comfort food and a film ... more
Staying in is the new going out and folk these days need some comfort food to distract them from the present economic gloom — all of which is good news for chocolate maker Cadbury
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Consumer: Chocolate and gum giant Cadbury unveiled a sweet jump in profits, but it warned that the next year will be tougher as consumers around the world cut back on treats... more
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