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• German cartel office probes chocolate price hikes: report

  - 2008-02-11

  FRANKFURT AFP — Germany's Federal Cartel Office and prosecutors have raided the offices of seven confectionery groups including Kraft, Nestle, Mars and Ritter on suspicion of chocolate price fixing, a press report said Monday. Other companies received letters from the cartel office informing them that they were part of...

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• Canada investigates chocolate 'conspiracy'

  - 2007-11-28

  OTTAWA AFP — Canada is investigating a number of high-profile chocolate giants for allegedly trying to cut themselves a sweet deal through price-fixing in the multi-billion dollar industry, officials said Wednesday. Canada's Competition Bureau served search warrants on several major bar makers this week requiring them to turn over...

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• Just making a living: Clooney defends Nestle ad

  - 2007-08-31

  VENICE, Italy AFP — Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney on Friday showed irritation with a reporter's question how he could reconcile criticizing multinationals with appearing in high-profile ads for Nestle. Clooney was at the ongoing Venice film festival to present his latest film, the thriller "Michael Clayton," in which he...

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• Nestle pops free Swiss chocs in post after rebranding flops

  - 2007-04-20

  GENEVA AFP — The Swiss food giant Nestle is mailing two million bars of chocolates to Swiss households to try to sweeten sales of one of its brands after the wrapper was changed. The move followed a 24 percent drop in sales for the group's best selling Cailler brand...

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• Chocolate bars infused with fish oil among latest candy trends

  - 2006-06-08

  CHICAGO AFP — Chocolate bars infused with fish oil and gum that will hop chewers up on caffeine are just a few of the new trends coming to the candy aisle. Confectioners, who already command nearly 100 billion dollars in global annual sales, are keen to cash in on...

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• EU sees no health risk from withdrawn Nestle baby milk

  - 2005-11-23

  BRUSSELS AFP — The European Food Safety Agency has deemed that baby milk withdrawn by Nestle's on fears of chemical contamination pose "no immediate health risk", the European Commission said. The Swiss-based food giant withdrew Tuesday a type of baby milk from sale in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain...

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• Italian authorities seize Nestle baby milk

  - 2005-11-22

  ROME AFP — Italian judicial authorities ordered the recall of 30 million litres of baby milk produced by Swiss food giant Nestle after ruling the product unfit for human consumption. Members of a special security unit were deployed throughout the country with orders to seize the milk, the Ansa...

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• Nestle extends withdrawal of baby milk

  - 2005-11-22

  ZURICH AFP — Swiss-based food giant Nestle has withdrawn a type of baby milk from sale in France, Spain and Portugal, as well as Italy, following fears about chemical contamination, company spokesman Francois-Xavier Perroud revealed. Italian judicial authorities earlier confirmed ordering the recall of 30 million litres of the...

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• Nestle Waters ponders Perrier sale ... or outsourcing

  - 2004-09-15

  PARIS AFP — Nestle Waters said it might sell Perrier, the iconic French mineral water, while keeping options including a mooted outsourcing on tap. The announcement highlighted a clash between the subsidiary of Swiss food giant Nestle and France's most powerful trade union, the communist-backed Confederation Generale du Travail...

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• Britain scolds food giants over high salt content: report

  - 2004-06-16

  LONDON AFP ? The British government has rebuked some high-profile food companies, including Nestle, Heinz and McDonalds, over the salt content in their processed products. The government named and shamed the companies over their failure to draw up adequate plans to reduce salt content in products such as pizzas...

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