Unilever sales jump on higher prices November 3, 2011 CONSUMER goods giant Unilever beat expectations by posting a 7.8 per cent rise in third quarter revenues yesterday, after it hiked prices and saw strong growth in emerging markets. The Dove soaps and Hellmann’s mayonnaise group raised prices nearly six per cent while strong sales in emerging markets like India, Indonesia and Brazil helped offset [...]
Unilever sales jump on higher prices November 3, 2011 CONSUMER goods giant Unilever beat expectations by posting a 7.8 per cent rise in third quarter revenues yesterday, after it hiked prices and saw strong growth in emerging markets. The Dove soaps and Hellmann’s mayonnaise group raised prices nearly six per cent while strong sales in emerging markets like India, Indonesia and Brazil helped offset [...]
Biggest deal in years for WPP as it buys digital agency stake June 20, 2012 SIR MARTIN Sorrell’s ad company WPP yesterday agreed to buy a majority stake in AKQA, one of the world’s most prestigious digital marketing agencies. In an deal that gives AKQA an enterprise value of $540m (£343m), WPP bought General Atlantic out of its 80 per cent stake and took an undisclosed amount of the 20 [...]
Investors back StanChart pay May 9, 2012 STANDARD Chartered headed off a shareholder revolt over director pay yesterday despite criticism from advisory group Pirc. Only 7.4 per cent of shareholders voted against the bank’s remuneration report even though Pirc said last week that the award for the head of the investment bank, Mike Rees, was too high. Standard Chartered notched up a [...]
Thai food giant mulls £2.5bn Birds Eye offer May 13, 2012 A THAI food firm has emerged as the latest suitor in the £2.5bn battle for the frozen foods group behind Birds Eye. Charoen Pokphand Foods, Thailand’s largest agribusiness firm, is preparing a bid for Iglo, which has been put up for sale by buyout firm Permira. The first deadline for bids was on Thursday when [...]
Market report: FTSE drops after Moody’s downgrade banks June 22, 2012 The FTSE was down this morning following poor global growth forecasts and the decision by credit ratings agency Moody’s to downgrade some of the world’s biggest banks. Last night Moody’s lowered the credit ratings of 15 of the world’s biggest lenders to reflect the risk of losses they face from volatile capital markets. But the [...]
WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 21, 2012 Osborne Clarke Sue Gold has joined the law firm as a partner in its privacy and data protection team. She joins from the Walt Disney Corporation, where she was principal counsel for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Gold has over 15 years’ experience in data protection and previously worked for five years at UBS. LV [...]
Market report: FTSE benefits from caffeine hit as inflation falls June 19, 2012 Coffee and a promise to safeguard the Eurozone from further contagion pushed the FTSE up 0.4 per cent in early trading this morning. As a result London’s blue chip index broke through the 5,500 level – a technical level seen as key for spurring further buying. Last night European leaders at the G20 summit in [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING April 23, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES EX-CALPERS CHIEF ACCUSED OF FRAUD The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Federico Buenrostro, former chief executive of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, and a friend of fabricating documents designed to show that $20m in fees paid by Apollo to Arvco, a “placement agent”, for help securing the pension fund’s investment had [...]
FTSE rises fuelled by miners May 22, 2012 The FTSE 100 picked up again this morning as some of last week’s losses were recouped. Hopes that Eurozone leaders were making progress as they tackled the debt mountain engulfing the bloc helped sentiment. One of the ideas to save struggling economies is to issue eurobonds. But an OECD report warned that the fragile global [...]