All B Corps articles – Page 8
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News
City snapshot: Danone delivers strong start to year with 4.9% growth
Danone has reported a strong start to the year with a 4.9% increase in like-for-like sales growth in the first quarter. Plus, Rémy Cointreau reveals full-year organic sales growth of 7.2%, Heineken beer volumes up 4.3% in the first quarter and all the rest of the latest news from the City.
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Analysis and Features
Sustainability: the world's ticking time bomb
The UK might see itself as a world leader in driving environmental goals but its performance in the 2017 Sustainability Index shows it is lagging behind as catastrophe looms on global scale. What needs to be done, and when, to stop the bomb going off?
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Analysis and Features
How many fmcg giants will join the B Corp bandwagon?
New research shows companies receive multiple benefits from signing up to B Corp. So why aren’t more businesses doing so?
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News
B Corps businesses 'grow 28 times faster than UK GDP'
Average year-on-year growth across the 150 UK businesses signed up to B Corps was 14% in the past year
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Danone the first UK dairy company to gain B Corp certification
B Corp certification ’is to business what Fairtrade is for coffee’, the NGO says
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Media Bites 22 December: Tesco/2 Sisters, plastic recycling
There is little in the way of food and drink news in this morning papers, but the survival of Toys R Us generates plenty of headlines in wider retails. And an MP says Tesco chief must explain silence over second 2 Sisters factory.
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Media Bites 9 October: Fox's Biscuits/Burton's, 2 Sisters, Bread Holdings, P&G
The poultry tycoon whose business has been hit by allegations of food safety breaches is in talks about a merger of Fox’s Biscuits and the owner of rival brand Jammie Dodgers, according to Sky News.
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Unilever snaps up fast-growing tea brand Pukka Herbs
The deal for an undisclosed sum ’came down to scale and sustainability’ said Pukka
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Analysis and Features
OC&C Global 50: M&A lever yet to be pulled
Forecasts of 3G Capital’s rivals reacting to its deal-making with large-scale consolidations of their own have come to very little as Global 50 M&A slumped last year
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Analysis and Features
OC&C Global 50 2017: Can zero equal hero?
Is zero-based budgeting (ruthless cost cutting) the required method for boosting margin now?
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Analysis and Features
Power List 2017: 100 leaders, thinkers and agitators shaping the grocery industry
Why Tesco boss is top for first time since 2011. Read on
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Analysis and Features
Steve Pappas, senior VP of Costco Europe (42)
Pappas remains hungry to spread Costco’s huge range of food, drink, household goods and electricals across the UK
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News
Steve Pappas takes on expanded European role at Costco UK
US warehouse club giant Costco has promoted UK managing director Steve Pappas to an expanded role
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Analysis and Features
Are sweeteners the best alternative as pressure mounts on sugar?
Under sustained attack, sugar is starting to crumble. But artificial sweeteners are just as controversial
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News
Media Bites 6 February: Tesco, Andy Clarke, Rexam
Reaction to GCA’s probe of Tesco features heavily as Asda’s Andy Clarke questions Tesco turnaround strategy.
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Analysis and Features
Why do short sellers like grocery?
Ocado, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons have all been heavily targeted by short selling hedge funds. Does this point to fundament…
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Comment and Opinion
A2 Milk serves a bitter pill
A2 Milk has taken a new tack with its marketing and positioning in the UK - somewhat to the discomfort of Müller Wiseman, which owns a 50% stake in the fledgling firm.
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News
Tesco faces £1bn write-down on US Fresh & Easy business
Tesco may chalk up a £1bn write-down as it considers quitting its loss-making Fresh & Easy venture in the US, according to reports.
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Analysis and Features
Review of the year 2012: part 2
As we revealed in our annual Britain’s Biggest Brands supplement in March…