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• Food Roundup: Beverage-Free Cadbury, Phelps-Free Kellogg, WTO Complaints, and More

  BNET - 2009-03-12

  Cadbury done with drink market -- Cadbury is selling Schweppes in Australia, the last of its beverage holdings, to Japanese brewer Asahi for $767 million. The two companies reached a conditional agreement in December, but the Coca-Cola Company still had the right to negotiate with Cadbury over any potential sale....

  Tags: U.S., China, Food, Poultry, World Trade Organization, Beverage, Starbucks Corp., Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover

• Cadbury Chocolate Brand Goes Fair Trade

  BNET - 2009-03-05

  Cadbury Dairy Milk in the UK will be the first major brand to make all of its chocolate fair trade certified. By the end of the summer, it will be buying all of the cocoa for its candy bars and cocoa powder from fair trade growers in Ghana, tripling the...

  Tags: Brand, Fair Trade, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Trade Supporter, Fairtrade Certification, Branding, Quality, Training And Certification, Marketing, Business Operations, Katherine Glover

• Friday Food Tabloid: Kellogg Pot Boycott, Romantic Tap Water, Cadbury Purple, and More

  BNET - 2009-02-13

  Pot smokers boycott Kellogg Marijuana smokers are boycotting Kellogg over its decision not to renew its contract with Michael Phelps after a photo surfaced of the Olympic swimmer smoking marijuana. The head of the Marijuana Policy Project called the move "hypocritical and disgusting." And as wacky...

  Tags: Food, Valentine's Day, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover

• Food Roundup: Starbucks Slashes 401(k) Matches, Cadbury Drops CSDs, and More

  BNET - 2008-12-24

  Starbucks stops guaranteeing 401k contributions -- The coffee shop chain said that starting Jan. 1, it will not necessarily match employee contributions to 401k retirement accounts. Instead it will switch to a "discretionary" program, meaning the company can elect whether or not to match contributions. [Source: Wall Street Journal] ...

  Tags: Food, 401(k) Plan, Beverage, Starbucks Corp., Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Chipotle, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Food & Beverage, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Manufacturing, Finance, Katherine Glover

• Food People: Sara Lee, Kraft, Cadbury

  BNET - 2008-12-19

  Sara Lee CFO to Step Down In what the company says is "mutual decision" between himself and CEO Brenda Barnes, Theo de Kool, 56, will step down as Sara Lee's finance chief when the fiscal year ends in June. De Kool has been with the...

  Tags: Food, Sara Lee Corp., Cadbury Schweppes Plc., CFO, De Kool, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dan Mitchell

• 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

• Food News Roundup: RIP Zima, Cadbury joins Olympics, Nestle invests in Russia, and More

  BNET - 2008-10-22

  RIP Zima; Cadbury joins Olympics; Nestle invests in Russia plant; Justice Department joins states to block beef merger; and melamine scare inspires marketing of soy products. by Katherine Glover

  Tags: Beverage, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Finance, Food, Food & Beverage, Investment, Katherine Glover, Manufacturing, Marketing, Marketing Research, Mergers & Acquisitions, Nestle S.A., Olympic Games, Russia, U.S. Department Of Justice

• Ken Hanna to leave Cadbury

  - 2008-10-02

  Business News In Brief FOOD The finance director of Cadbury is to leave the confectionery group in April next year and become chairman of Inchcape, the car retailer, the following month. Ken Hanna, who has been at Cadbury for five years, wants to pursue anumber of non-exec-...

  Tags: Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Inchcape Plc.

• Ethical Corporation: Toyota, Pepsi, Deutsche Telekom, Marks & Spencer, Cadbury and more to discuss Ethical Supply Chains in Berlin, October 16-17

  - 2008-08-22

  Ethical Corporation launches The 3rd Annual Ethical Supply Chain Summit, taking place on October 16-17 in Berlin as key leaders from around the world join for ultimate debate and discussion on ethical supply chains. BERLIN -- Toyota, Pepsi, Deutsche Telekom, Marks & Spencer and Cadbury are just five of...

  Tags: Berlin, Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Deutsche Telekom AG, Marks & Spencer, PepsiCo, SCM, SOFTWARE, Toyota Motor Corp.

• The candy category adjusts to new power

  - 2008-06-02

  NEW YORK -- The gum and confectionery industry is in flux with the purchase of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. and the spin-off by Cadbury PLC of its United States beverage division. The $23 billion acquisition of Wrigley by Mars Inc. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. united such gum brands as...

  Tags: Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Mars Inc.