Kraft Foods targets Cadbury's Russian division
MOSCOW (AFP) - US-based food producer Kraft Foods Inc. is seeking Russia's permission to acquire Russia's Dirol Cadbury company, owned by Britain's Cadbury Plc, the national anti-monopoly agency said...
AFP Finance News -
Friday November 20, 2009, 9:04 am
US Still Fragile
Another week for the US economy in which statistics, speeches and interviews, all underlined just how tough it is going to be in the world's biggest economy for the next year or more. In...
Australasian Investment Review -
Friday November 20, 2009, 12:13 am
Great Southern creditors tick wind-up
The future of the assets and managed investment schemes (MIS) of failed agricultural projects manager Great Southern group is now in the hands of the receiver, after creditors voted on Thursday to...
AAP -
Thursday November 19, 2009, 6:16 pm
Goodman close to commercial unit sale
Goodman Fielder Ltd says the trading outlook for 2009/10 is "encouraging" as the food group moves closer to selling its commercial industrial business.Managing director Peter Margin told...
AAP -
Thursday November 19, 2009, 5:26 pm
Resources Boom Bounces Back
The return of the resources boom was again confirmed by the news yesterday that the value of mining and energy projects under development in Australia had jumped 40% from April to October...
Australasian Investment Review -
Thursday November 19, 2009, 8:46 am
Marks and Spencer appoints Dutchman to head retailer
LONDON (AFP) - British clothes-to-food retailer Marks and Spencer on Wednesday announced the appointment of Dutchman and supermarket boss Marc Bolland as its new chief executive.In reaction, M&S...
AFP Finance News -
Thursday November 19, 2009, 5:23 am
Marks and Spencer announces new chief executive
LONDON (AFP) - British clothes-to-food retailer Marks and Spencer on Wednesday announced the appointment of supermarket boss Marc Bolland as its new chief executive.Bolland, 50, currently chief...
AFP Finance News -
Wednesday November 18, 2009, 11:20 pm
Small, Medium Business More Confident
The National Australia Bank's latest quarterly survey of confidence and conditions for small and medium businesses has shown a sharp improvement. The rise echoes the big improvement reported last...
Australasian Investment Review -
Wednesday November 18, 2009, 8:33 am
IPL Cuts Asset Values, Sees Tough 2010
Incitec Pivot did some house cleaning on asset values for 2009 and ended up reporting a loss for the September 30 financial year. It was a tack the market liked and the shares rose 6.5%...
Australasian Investment Review -
Tuesday November 17, 2009, 8:08 am
Olam buys more Timbercorp almond assets
Singapore-based Olam International Ltd, a global supplier of agricultural products and food ingredients, has acquired more of the almond orchards of collapsed agricultural projects manager Timbercorp...
AAP -
Monday November 16, 2009, 5:44 pm
Great Southern 'should be wound up'
The administrators of failed agricultural projects operator Great Southern group have recommended that the companies within the group be wound up.However they cannot say how much unsecured creditors...
AAP -
Wednesday November 11, 2009, 3:31 pm
Europe singles out France over swollen deficits
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Commission was on a collision course with France on Monday, with a major row brewing over when Paris will have to rein in spending.The commission will on Wednesday order...
AFP Finance News -
Tuesday November 10, 2009, 9:21 am
Inflation also to blame for food price hike
The head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says drought and other agriculture reforms are contributing equally to food price inflation.
Competition lawyer Professor...
ABC Business News -
Monday November 9, 2009, 8:34 pm
Tanner cops a hiding from abattoir
There is still no end to a stoush between a Tasmanian hides merchant and an international meat processor after a year of tension.
In December last year, JBS Swift locked Cuthbertson Brothers out...
ABC Business News -
Monday November 9, 2009, 11:50 am
Oil spill sends fishermen bankrupt
An environmental lawyer in Indonesia says local fishermen are going bankrupt because the Timor Sea oil spill has ruined fish stocks.
The West Atlas oil rig spewed hundreds of thousands of litres...
ABC Business News -
Saturday November 7, 2009, 7:16 am
