Foods / beverages
Activist investor Nelson Peltz renews call to split PepsiCo
21 Feb 2014
Activist investor Nelson Peltz has once renewed his campaign to split up PepsiCo, a week after the food and beverage giant headed by CEO Indra Nooyi said that it would not spin off its North-American beverage business
Nestle India Q4 net marginally up at Rs282 cr
15 Feb 2014
Danone buys 5.9% stake in China Mengniu Dairy for $665 mn
12 Feb 2014
French diary major Danone will emerge become the second-biggest investor in China's largest milk producer, Mengniu Dairy, after the deal
Subway to remove chemical from bread after protests
07 Feb 2014
Subway, the world's largest sandwich chain is removing a chemical from its bread that is also commonly used to increase elasticity in everything from yoga mats to rubber to synthetic leather
GMCR to market Coke beverages after 10% stake sale for $1.25 bn
06 Feb 2014
Under their 10-year agreement, both companies agreed to collaborate on the development and launch of Coca-Cola’s global products in GMCR’s upcoming Keurig Cold at-home beverage system
Rothamsted Research submits application to Defra for permission to carry out GM field trial
By By Jagdeep Worah | 24 Jan 2014
Experiments to produce fish oil from plants gather pace
By By Jagdeep Worah | 24 Jan 2014
The particular fish oils that benefit the health of both fish and humans, called EPA and DHA, are not in fact produced by fish themselves but instead accumulated by eating marine microbes
Amul launches sale of milk through 'ATMs'
24 Jan 2014
General Mills cuts out GM content from Cheerios
04 Jan 2014
Painkillers discovered in Tesco’s ice cream
31 Dec 2013
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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