How Arla Foods boss went from selling cigarettes to Lurpak and Cravendale Business A globe-trotting career that began selling cigarettes at British American Tobacco and has led to heading up the UK arm of dairy giant Arla Foods is maybe not what Bas Padberg could have predicted when he started out in the early 1990s. The managing director of the group behind Lurpak, Cravendale, Skyr and B.O.B milk [...]
Inside the Surrey estate loved by Cliff Richard and Andy Murray Life&Style The Surrey estate is close to Windsor and has historic parkland backing onto new residential properties Set amid 78 acres of land, including wildflower meadows, the Surrey country estate of Sunningdale Park was established in the late 1700s and for centuries was home to all manner of Sirs and High Sheriffs, including at one point [...]
British American Tobacco inches closer to settlement of multi-billion dollar lawsuit in Canada Legal A subsidiary of London-listed British American Tobacco (BAT) revealed that it's nearing a "potential" settlement in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit in Canada
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