Food & Beverage
January 10, 2008
Beverage and snack maker PepsiCo Inc. said recently it agreed to buy Penelopa, a Bulgarian producer and seller of nuts and seeds, the Associated Press reports.Terms were undisclosed.Penelopa sells peanuts,
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January 8, 2008
According to the Associated Press, AFC Enterprises Inc., which franchises and operates the Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits chain, said recently that Chief Operating Officer James W. Lyons had resigned to
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January 8, 2008
According to the Associated Press, the Czech state-owned brewery Budejovicky Budvar NP, which has been fighting a long legal battle with Anheuser-Busch over the Budweiser brand, said recently it boosted
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November 8, 2007
Smithfield Foods Inc. filed a civil racketeering lawsuit against the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which for more than a decade has waged a campaign to organize workers at
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May 24, 2007
Anheuser-Busch plans to double distribution in China will include a new brewery in that nation''s Guangdong province, the Associated Press reports. The St. Louis-based beer maker will expand Budweiser distribution
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May 24, 2007
Reuters reports that Tyson Foods Inc., the world''s largest chicken, beef and pork processor, has said it would soon resume beef exports to South Korea, whose market has been closed
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May 24, 2007
Archer Daniels Midland Company has completed the acquisition of all outstanding shares in Ilitchevskiy Maslo Extractionniy Zavod joint stock company from Risoil S.A., PRNewswire reports. IMEZ operates a sunseed crushing
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December 15, 2006
According to bizjournals.com, SABMiller plc, the owner of Miller Brewing Co. in Milwaukee, plans to spend another $125 million on its brewing operations in India over the next two
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December 15, 2006
According to the Associated Press, Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. said that it will halt its Hawaii operations immediately—well ahead of a 2008 closing announced this year. Del Monte said
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October 16, 2006
The Associated Press reports that a federal judge granted class action status to a lawsuit that contends Tyson Foods Inc., depressed wages by hiring illegal immigrants at eight plants in
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