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• Cadbury Points to Rival Interest

  ReutersUK - 2009-12-17

  By David Jones and Victoria HowleyLONDON (Reuters UK) - Chocolatier Cadbury teased shareholders with the prospect of rival bids and promised bigger dividends and stronger growth as it again knocked back a hostile 10 billion pound offer from Kraft Foods.Cadbury chairman Roger Carr said Hershey and Italy's Ferrero had both...

  Tags: Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Financial Accounting, Sales Strategy, Financial Planning, Personal Finance, Finance, Sales, Kraft Foods Inc.

• Cadbury Points to Rival Interest as It Rejects Kraft

  ReutersUK - 2009-12-17

  By David Jones and Victoria HowleyLONDON (Reuters UK) - Chocolatier Cadbury teased shareholders with the prospect of rival bids and promised bigger dividends and stronger growth as it again knocked back a hostile 10 billion pound offer from Kraft Foods.Cadbury chairman Roger Carr said Hershey and Italy's Ferrero had both...

  Tags: Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Financial Accounting, Sales Strategy, Financial Planning, Personal Finance, Finance, Sales, Kraft Foods Inc.

• Food Roundup: No Mergers for PepsiCo, Cadbury is All-Candy, Whole Foods Outlook Grim, and More

  BNET - 2008-12-16

  PepsiCo to Refrain from Acquisitions -- CEO Indra Nooyi said the drinks-and-snacks giant will concentrate on innovation. The company will "significantly" boost its research budget, she said. [Source: Bloomberg] Cadbury Sells off Last of its Beverages Business -- The confectioner also said it will maintain its full-year...

  Tags: Food, Merger, PepsiCo, Whole Foods, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Sales Strategy, Food & Beverage, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Sales, Manufacturing, Dan Mitchell

• What the papers said

  - 2008-04-19

  THE INDEPENDENT Marks & Spencer tasted victory lost week in a long-running legal bottle with HM Revenue & Customs over 3.5m [pounds sterling] of overpaid value-added tax on chocolate teacakes. The European Court of Justice ruled in favour of M&S in the dispute, which spanned 12 years and took...

  Tags: bottle, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., European Court, FINANCE, SALES, Taxes, Tesco

• Cadbury sales set record, but profits slip.(Financial report)

  - 2008-02-20

  TIP UPDATE: The shares remain expensive, and there's no return of cash to look forward to. Nathalie Olof-Ors TIP UPDATE: The shares remain expensive, and there's no return of cash to look forward to. Nathalie Olof-Ors

  Tags: Cadbury Schweppes Plc., financial, sales

• Cadbury Schweppes strong growth driven by confectionery.

  - 2007-04-04

  Apr 04, 2007 (Retail World - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Cadbury Schweppes Australasia has achieved strong revenue growth for three consecutive years. In 2006, revenue from beverages rose by six per cent and revenue from confectionery by five per cent. Sales Apr 04, 2007 (Retail World...

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• What you missed.(Briefs)(Patron Tequila under scanner for using sex in its advertisements)(Sears Holdings Corp. is reviewing its plans)(Cadbury Schweppes Beverages America looks into its digital-advertising duties)(Brief article)

  - 2007-04-02

  Patron Tequila is being slapped by the spirits industry's governing body for using sex to fuel its surging sales. The Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. released its semi-annual marketing code report last week, in which it disclosed the outcome of Patron Tequila is being slapped...

  Tags: advertisement, beverage, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., marketing, sales, scanner, Sears Holdings Corp.

• At Deadline.(Late News)(ING Clarion Partners acquired Hotel Allegro)(sales of Condominiums)(Cadbury Beverages to increase prices)

  - 2007-02-12

  Loop's Hotel Allegro gets a new owner An affiliate of ING Clarion Partners has acquired the 483-room Hotel Allegro in the Loop, confirms Michael Moyer, CEO and managing member of Chicago's Palmet Venture LLC, the seller. Mr. Moyer declines to disc Loop's Hotel...

  Tags: beverage, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., ING Group, sales, Wrigley

• Week Ahead...

  - 2006-12-08

  News MONDAY 11 DECEMBER Northgate Information Solutions NIS reports first-half results on Monday. It had a torrid time last year, when its head office and main data centre were lost due to the Buncefield oil-depot explosion. And there have been other...

  Tags: Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, inflation, SALES

• GUM BATTLE; Wrigley's troubles double as Cadbury comes on strong in firm's core business.(acquisitions)

  - 2006-06-12

  Byline: JULIE JARGON A new rival is making trouble for Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. in the gum business, compounding the candymaker's difficulties as it struggles to jump-start newly acquired mint and candy brands. Cadbury Schweppes PLC, which bought the Byline: JULIE...

  Tags: acquisition, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., gum, sales, Wrigley Jr. Co.