US food giant Kraft takes a roasting as it is accused of treating MPs with near-contempt in a Parliamentary probe into its £11.5 billion takeover of Dairy Milk maker Cadbury... more
Top directors from American food giant Kraft get a verbal slapping from a parliamentary committee still furious about the company's £11 billion takeover of Cadbury last year... more
Kraft Foods admits that Cadbury, which it bought for £11.5 billion last year, had produced "disappointing" results as chewing gum sales stalled... more
This is the time of year when awards are handed down. One of the better contests, that has consistently produced the right result it seems to me, is Management Today's most-admired companies. ... more
Welcome, Irene Rosenfeld. The secrecy surrounding her visit — the first the Kraft boss has made to the UK since her company bought Cadbury in February — would not have been excessive had she been a head of state rather than a chocolate manufacturer... more
Spotted: Rob Lowe, star of West Wing and acknowledged as one of the shrewdest and most knowledgeable figures in the global entertainment industry, with Tom Barrack, the charismatic chairman and CEO of Colony Capital... more
Kraft boss Irene Rosenfeld, a hate figure for many Cadbury workers, got a 40% pay rise last year to reward her for winning the takeover battle, taking her total package to more than £17 million... more
Sign of the times. As other firms in prestigious City buildings have shrunk their floorspace amid redundancy programmes, recruitment firm Kennedy Pearce is expanding... more
Hell hath no fury like a business secretary scorned. Lord Mandelson’s rage at Kraft’s apparent volte face over the closure of a Cadbury factory is something to behold... more
Profile: So, what’s she like, the new first lady of Cadbury, the chocolate-maker’s new boss, Irene Rosenfeld? Charming, for sure, but also reserved and steely hard. And, boy, is she competitive... 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 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
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
Kraft Foods, the US processed food giant which is trying to take over Cadbury, moved to beef up its board in an attempt to add credibility to its 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
In a letter to the Evening Standard, Vince Cable says I was wrong to argue that directors of Royal Bank of Scotland should be free to distribute their £1.5 billion bonus pool... more
The Cadbury camp were all smiles at this afternoon’s super-low offer from Kraft, with one senior insider describing it as the “dead on arrival bid”... more
There was once a laughable suggestion that Alan Sugar could run for London Mayor. Surely there is no chance of the star of TV’s The Apprentice and Gordon Brown’s recently ennobled business adviser, taking to the hustings — given that he keeps firing off solicitors’ letters to anyone who has the temerity to criticise him... more
Cadbury's, the confectionery giant and maker of Dairy Milk, has rejected a £10.2 billion hostile takeover offer by US rival Kraft, one of America’s biggest food firms.
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