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Dated: 1 October 2006
Forbes Magazine has released its global ranking of ‘The 100 Most Powerful Women’. PepsiCo chief executive-designate, Indra Nooyi has come in fourth—surpassed only by German chancellor Angela Merkel, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, and Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi. In fact, the F&B industry showed very good standing, with a total of three in the top 25. Patricia Woertz, the American chief executive of Archer Daniels Midland ranked 7th and Brenda Barnes the chairman and chief dxecutive of Sara Lee came in 9th place. In comparison, media mogul Oprah Winfrey ranked 14th, while Safra Katz, president and chief financial officer of Oracle, hit 21st place.
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(1 July 2008)
“What exactly do consumers want?” It would be pure folly to try and tackle this question in the short space of an editor’s note. But this being my precious last column in AFJ, I m...
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(1 June 2008)
Cyclical market trends and price swings are nothing new. But when the affected sector is as basic to daily survival as food, the implications of a worldwide price spiral can be dev...
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(1 June 2008)
Thomas Bauer, head of strategic advisory and research for South-east Asia, shares in an exclusive interview with AFJ where the niches lie in Asia’s food production and Rabobank’s a...
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(1 April 2008)
Scientists at Europe’s food safety watchdog have completed an assessment of a recent study on the effect of two mixtures of certain food colors and the preservative sodium benzoate...
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(1 April 2008)
The European Food Safety Association says more than half of consumers of plant sterols belong to the intended target group, particularly at sustained levels of intake. Thus more th...
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(1 April 2008)
More than 50 percent of Americans, ages 18-44, are ready to dine on Singaporean staples like Singapore chili crab, Hainanese chicken rice, and laksa noodles. These finding are base...
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(1 April 2008)
The confectionery market in Vietnam is on the upwards climb. Datamonitor forecasts that it will be worth $707 million in 2011. By the end of 2011, the sugar-confectionery category ...
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(1 April 2008)
Frozen-food packaging in the US is expected to soar to $6.4 billion in 2011, due to an increase in demand for convenience foods. Smaller household sizes, an aging population and mo...
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Unilever's top executives had to baracade themselves in a private dining room at the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai last week to prevent themselves from being shot at by terrorists. They then had to smash a window and make a dramatic escape, according to a report in The Times.
A year after unveiling its e-commerce site, Meijer will now begin offering grocery and dry good items bought in bulk from www.meijer.com. Unlike existing online grocery services that charge a delivery fee, Meijer will offer free shipping for orders of US$150 and more.
Tesco's like-for-like sales, excluding petrol, rose by just two per cent rise in the UK for the third quarter, the lowest rise in growth since 1993. However, total group sales rose 11.7 per cent
thanks to strong international performance.
Carrefour will be opening two new stores in Romania. The French retailer entered the supermarket segment in the country by acquiring the 21-store Artima chain last year for €55 million. By the end of this year, 20 Artima stores will be rebranded as Carrefour Express.
Ten Russian food retail companies have asked state banks for a total of €1.4 billion in loans to help survive the global financial crisis. The companies include X5 Retail Group, Magnit, Dixy and Seventh Continent, as well as smaller rivals Lenta, Kopeika, O'key, Holiday, Mosmart and Victoria.
The Rewe Group has been given the go-ahead to takeover 328 Plus stores from Tengelmann in Germany. The German anti-trust body, Bundeskartellamt, has unconditionally approved the acquisition by the country's second-largest food retailer.
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