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Cadbury's Drinks-Business Spinoff Eludes Credit Monster
It's been more than a year since Cadbury-Schweppes, under pressure from investors, said it would spin off its U.S. beverages business. But finally, it looks like it's actually going to happen: The spinoff, with the somewhat silly-sounding moniker Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, will begin trading on the New York Stock...
Cadbury's Drinks-Business Spinoff Eludes Credit Monster
It's been more than a year since Cadbury-Schweppes, under pressure from investors, said it would spin off its U.S. beverages business. But finally, it looks like it's actually going to happen: The spinoff, with the somewhat silly-sounding moniker Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, will begin trading on the New York Stock...
BNET Daily Dispatch: Sallie Mae, Ichan, Nokia and Cadbury
Sallie Mae, the largest U.S. student-loan company, is talking with private equity firms about a potential leveraged buyout. A LBO would be unusual for a financial company because it would require it to take on more debt, which can cut into the profit margins of a lender like Sallie...
Bringing the world moments of delight : Annual Report and Form 20-F 2001
This is the Annual Report and Form 20-F of Cadbury Schweppes public limited company for the year ended 30 December 2001. It contains the annual report and accounts in accordance with UK generally accepted accounting principles and regulations and, together with the Form 20-F to be filed in April 2002...
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Futures Signal Wall Street Jump on Fannie, Freddie Plan
REUTERS - Stock index futures pointed to a jump on Wall Street on Monday after the government seized control of major mortgage firms Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE. * By 5 a.m. EDT, S&P 500 futures Dow Jones futures and Nasdaq...
Origin Eyes $8 Billion Joint Venture With Conoco to Fend Off BG
By Fayen Wong and Tom Bergin PERTH/LONDON (Reuters) - Origin Energy Ltd ORG, fending off an $11 billion hostile bid from Britain's BG Group Plc BG, is to spin off its coalbed methane assets into a joint venture with U.S. oil major ConocoPhillips...
August PPI Output Prices Post Record Monthly Fall
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Manufacturing output prices fell in August at their sharpest monthly rate since records began in 1986 because of lower petrol and scrap metal prices, in a sign that factory gate inflation may have peaked. The Office for National Statistics said unadjusted output...
AB Foods H2 Primark Like-for-like Sales Up
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Primark stores owner Associated British Foods ABF expects its discount fashion chain to show underlying sales ahead 2 percent over the spring and summer months as it expects to meet its annual profit expectations. Primark, which accounts for a third of group...
Blyth Drops 24% on Poor U.S. Sales, Lower Guidance
John C. Lee submits: On Thursday, September 4 pre-market, Blyth Inc. BTH reported Q2 earnings of $0.08 per share or $3 million on $236.8 million in revenue vs. earnings of $0.08 per share or $3.2 million on $234.9 million in revenue a year ago. Excluding items, BTH earned $0.09 per...
Morrison to Top Growth League
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Wm Morrison Supermarkets MRW is set to post a 19 percent rise in first-half underlying profit on Thursday and confirm it is taking market share from bigger rivals as cash-strapped shoppers flock to its lower price stores. Britain's fourth-biggest supermarket group...
Eli Lilly's Brewing Battle With Bristol-Myers
Mike Huckman submits: Last week I blogged about Eli Lilly's LLY "Coming Soon" banner ad I spotted in the online edition of The New England Journal of Medicine. It's designed to generate buzz about the company's crucial new bloodthinner that could win Food and Drug Administration approval this month....
From the Vault: Novo Nordisk's "Captain Novolin" Nightmare
A reader wrote to me to complain that Pfizer was not a pioneer of drug-based video games, as I asserted its "Viva Cruiser" effort was for Viagra. She said: There was a game that Novo Nordisk put out about 15 years ago to promote their insulin called Captain Novolin....
DSG Sought Bid From Media Markt, But Rebuffed: Report
LONDON (Reuters) - Germany's Media Markt, Europe's biggest electrical goods retailer, has rejected a request from DSG International Plc DSGI to consider a bid for its closest rival, the Financial Times said on its Web site. The FT.com, citing unnamed people familiar with...
Chocolate Industry not Immune from Market Forces
The chocolate business is not immune from the pressures affecting the rest of the food sector: input costs, way up; demand, way down. Food Business News reports that the industry is dealing with "uncertain supply prospects, high prices and weaker demand." Candy...
Italy's Mediaset Has Eyes on ITV
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters UK) - Mediaset MS , Italy's biggest independent broadcaster, controlled by the family of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is looking at a number of possible acquisitions, including Britain's ITV Plc ITV, a board member said. "We are looking at a bunch of...
Xstrata Qld Nabs 17.8% Stake in Indophil
Xstrata Queensland Ltd will buy a 17.83 per cent stake in Indophil Resources NL from Lion Selection Ltd.Xstrata Queensland, which is wholly owned by Xstrata plc, said it will buy the shares at $1.17 each, for a total of $82 million.The purchase follows the expiry of Xstrata Queensland's $1.28...
Wetherspoon Profits Hit By Smoking Ban
By Matthew Scuffham LONDON (Reuters UK) - Pubs group JD Wetherspoon JDW reported a decline in full year profits on Friday, adding to the gloom in the sector following downbeat updates from Punch Taverns PUB and Greene King GNK this week. The group, which has nearly...
Services, Productivity Up But Job Market Weak
By Burton Frierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dominant U.S. service sector improved last month and businesses boosted productivity in the second quarter but evidence of labor market weakness overshadowed other data the day before a key jobs report. The Labor Department said...
Grocers Increase Offerings of Prepared Foods
Last week as I was getting on the elevator on my way out of Whole Foods (I know, I know, I'm crazy to shop there), three other people got on with me. Only one, like me, had a cart, which in her case held just one small bag, a 12-pack...
Business Leaders Pessimistic: Survey
Eighty per cent of Australian business leaders are pessimistic about the outlook for 2008/09, with resources and China the major possible saviours, according to Perpetual Ltd's annual Leadership Survey.Relief in the form of lower interest rates and looser credit markets came a distant second, while the greatest negatives were...
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