Consumer goods giant Unilever raised its prices sharply in the second-quarter to offset a hike in commodity costs helping it to beat forecasts with 7.1 percent rise in quarterly sales growth... more
Credit information firm Experian narrowly beat profit forecasts, helped by a recovering U.S. banking sector and expansion in Latin America, and said it was set for good growth this year... more
The world's biggest spirits makers Diageo and Pernod Ricard beat sales forecasts for the first quarter of the year with strong growth from Asia, Latin America and Africa outweighing moribund European markets... more
Brazil has overtaken China as the favourite market for emerging private equity deals over the next year, due to a stronger political and regulatory environment and lower valuations, according to a news survey... more
Geo-cloning - repeating a successful business model in new countries - is the new buzzword at Informa, the business information and trade exhibitions group behind Lloyd's List and Datamonitor.... more
Diageo, the world's biggest spirits group, misses City profit forecasts for the first half of its financial year only avoiding having to lower its full-year targets because of a strong recovery in its emerging markets divisions... more
One of the most important decisions taken by the Coalition government was to rule out a new runway at Heathrow – and they were right. It was a decision supported by this paper and by millions of Londoners... more
GDF Suez offers International Power shareholders a cash sweetener worth £1.4 billion as it moves towards a tie-up with the British energy group... more
Britain's banks might have been refinanced to the tune of tens of billions of pounds, but they still aren't keen to lend, say credit check experts Experian... more
Leaders from across Latin America were meeting today in response to the political crisis in Honduras after clashes between the military and protesters. ... more
Consumer: British American Tobacco has sailed on regardless of the financial crisis, reporting growth in every region except Latin America for the first nine months... more
Grammy winners and Cuban dance darlings Los Van Van transported the Hammersmith Palais to Latin America, mixing salsa, pop, rock and Afro-Cuban rhythms.... more
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