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Sara Lee to buy Dutch café store leader CoffeeCompany

12 December 2011
Sara Lee Corp. have announced an agreement to acquire CoffeeCompany, a leading Dutch café store operator...

Unilever’s new Durban plant a model of sustainable savoury dry food production

9 December 2011
Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr. Rob Davies, officially opened Unilever’s R670-million state of the art savoury foods plant...

Diageo publishes first sustainable packaging guidelines

8 December 2011
Diageo has taken a further step to becoming a truly sustainable business with the publication of our first Sustainable Packaging Guidelines...

SABMiller to appoint Managing Director

7 December 2011
SABMiller announces that it intends to appoint Ari Mervis, currently Managing Director Asia, as Managing Director...

Nestlé joins new partnership to improve dairy farming in Brazil

7 December 2011
Nestlé has joined a new partnership with its competitors in Brazil to help more than 2,200 dairy farms...

HEINEKEN announces global partnership with Facebook

7 December 2011
HEINEKEN and Facebook have announced a global partnership...

Kraft Foods announces top leadership of future independent companies

5 December 2011
Appointments of the Chairmen and CEOs of the future global snacks and North American grocery companies - announced...

HEINEKEN acquires Galaxy Pub Estate in United Kingdom

2 December 2011
HEINEKEN N.V. has acquired the Galaxy Pub Estate in the U.K. from The Royal Bank of Scotland for £412 million...

Approval of Scheme of Arrangement for acquisition of Foster’s Group Limited

2 December 2011
The Supreme Court of Victoria has approved the Scheme of Arrangement pursuant to which SABMiller will acquire the shares in Foster's...