Britvic shares loose some fizz, tumbling 10% after the company warns that price rises in recent weeks of its most basic raw materials are "unprecedented"... more
Advertising & marketing: Forget Andy Murray's failure in the Australian Open final. Advertising and marketing experts were far more excited when Li Na became the first Chinese player to reach a Grand Slam final... more
Guardian Media Group — owner of The Guardian and Smooth Radio — promoted chief financial officer Andrew Miller to replace Carolyn McCall as chief executive... more
Just as the indiscretions of married Irish tycoon Johnny Ronan are revealed, it has also emerged that his company, Treasury Holdings, is looking to sell a stake in the £5.5bn Battersea Power Station redevelopment... more
Child protection officers visited the home of golfer Tiger Woods after allegations that he and his wife had a violent argument over his affairs... more
Thierry Henry's earning power could be seriously damaged as sponsors desert him in the wake of the 'hand of God' cheating scandal, it has emerged... more
New 'eco-index' charting the environmental impact of Britain’s favourite groceries has crowned Persil laundry powder the greenest supermarket product and Haribo sweets the worst... more
The States is the final frontier in terms of soccer. Those were the words of Simon Fuller, when his client David Beckham signed for LA Galaxy, on a five-year contract worth a reported $250 million, excluding all the usual extras from image rights to sponsorship... more
Jackson's often eccentric behaviour, which included sleeping in an oxygen tent, adopting a chimp, and wearing a surgical mask, saw him dubbed "Wacko Jacko" by the tabloid press... more
They may be America's First Family but Michelle Obama with children in tow did what all tourists do when in London - they visited Westminster Abbey... more
Challenger brands, I learned this week, are upstart companies snapping at the heels of established rivals. Virgin Atlantic taking on British Airways is the textbook example of a successful challenger (while Virgin Cola's lame assault on Coke and Pepsi is a popular case study for the opposite reason) ... more
Shares in soft drinks supplier Britvic slumped 15p to 275½p after its biggest shareholder was forced to dump almost 14% of the company, worth £80.1 million, in the market place... more
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