Search Results for: America
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MID-TERM CAP REVIEW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANZ Fischler has given himself a tough job; trying to persuade dairy farmers it is time to expose themselves to unfettered world markets when prices are at rock bottom, while facing hostility to further CAP reform from some European Union governments, notably France.…
AUTOMAKERS
BY PHILIP FINE
US automakers have hit a setback in their attempt to stave off soaring
legal
costs over thousands of asbestos-related lawsuits.
An appeals court in Philadelphia has thrown
out a request by several companies to be named as ‘related parties’
in the bankruptcy of auto-parts maker Federal-Mogul Global Inc.…
SOUTH-EAST ASIA
BY MARK ROWE
MONEY launderers looking to process their criminal gains look favourably upon south-east Asia. Authorities in the region are under-funded and overworked, while cash-transactions are a cultural norm, making it easy to ensure that money you would prefer not to be traced can simply disappear, with little likelihood that anyone will have the time to investigate the transaction.…
BEN & JERRY'S FEATURE
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE AVERAGE consumer that tucks into a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey has no idea that this supposedly quaint, hippy-dippy company that started out of an old garage in the beautiful landscape of America’s Vermont Green Mountains, is really owned by the nemesis of such small companies – a faceless multinational – in this case, Unilever.…
BEN & JERRY'S FEATURE
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE AVERAGE consumer that tucks into a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey has no idea that this supposedly quaint, hippy-dippy company that started out of an old garage in the beautiful landscape of America’s Vermont Green Mountains, is really owned by the nemesis of such small companies – a faceless multinational – in this case, Unilever.…
OBESITY ACT
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US Senate has introduced legislation to reduce obesity, particularly among American children and adolescents. If passed, the US$215 million Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Act would take on the ‘significant problems associated with obesity,’ mostly by funding measures to encourage better nutrition and more physical activity; this includes federal funding for research and information campaigns.…
NESTLE AND DREYER
BY MONICA DOBIE
Nestlé SA and Dreyer’s Ice Cream Inc. have agreed on a merger deal that will eventually see Nestlé owning Dreyer’s entirely. Under the agreement, Nestlé will merge its US ice cream business into Dreyer’s brand, the best selling packaged ice cream in America.…
GENERAL PUBLISHING
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, and ALAN OSBORN, in London
CANADIAN publishers may have to pay the insolvent General Publishing up front to have their books moved from its warehouse floor, even though many publishers have not received payment from General since last autumn.…
US FARM BILL
BY KEITH NUTHALL, ALAN OSBORN, MONICA DOBIE AND PHILIP FINE
IF there is one striking characteristic about Washington’s Bush Administration, it must be its almost unprecedented ability to infuriate the entire world with its unilateralism, especially its self-serving trade policies.
For years, the US government has actually played Mary Poppins on food production subsidies, claiming that its handouts do not encourage farmers to overproduce when prices are low.…
KENT
BY MARK ROWE
LAUNCHED in America in 1954, Kent is now sold in more than 70 countries and remains the pioneer of the micronite filter. BAT’s premier free-standing lights brand has been earmarked to add competency to BAT’s portfolio in the premium, lights and Adult Smokers Under the Age of 30 (ASU30) segment of the market.…