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Carrefour-PepsiCo Dispute Sheds Light On Key Role Of Retailers' Ad Business

Carrefour and PepsiCo's just resolved three-month price dispute has shed light on a new aspect of such negotiations which is changing the relationship betw...

Target Shopper Data, Streaming TV Ads Are Key To Its Sales

Target's retail media unit, a business through which it creates and sells ads, grew more than 20% in its fiscal year ended 3 February, Target CEO Brian Cor...

Kimberly-Clark To Reorganise Business, Incur $1.5bn In Charges

Consumer goods maker Kimberly-Clark said it will reorganise into three business units as it looks to simplify operations and cut costs

Louis Dreyfus Company Agrees To Buy Brazilian Coffee Maker Cacique

Agricultural commodity merchant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Brazilian soluble coffee maker Companhia Caci...

Clorox To Sell Some Latin American Operations; Take $233m Charge

Bleach maker Clorox said that it would sell its operations in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay to private equity fund Apex Capital, as it looks to tighten i...

Reckitt Misses Fourth-Quarter Like-For-Like Net Sales Expectations

Consumer goods group Reckitt missed fourth-quarter like-for-like net sales expectations with some investors criticising the company's 'vague' outlook for t...

CCEP Germany Posts Double-Digit Sales Growth In FY 2023

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Germany has reported year-on-year sales growth of 12.5% in its 2023 financial year.

France's CMA CGM Unit Raises Offer For UK's Wincanton

CEVA Logistics, a unit of French shipping firm CMA CGM, raised its offer to buy Wincanton to about £604.7 million ($766.2 million), hoping to fend of...