All articles by Ed Devlin – Page 80
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Media Bites 28 January: Diageo, Greencore, Fever-Tree, Britvic
Trading updates from drinks firms Diageo, Fever-Tree and Brtivic all make the morning papers, with news of a shareholder revolt at Greencore over exec pay.
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Griddle closes six-figure funding round to expand reach of new plant-based waffles
Griddle recently expanded its offering from pancakes to frozen plant-based waffles, which it claimed as a UK first.
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Media Bites 27 January: Ocado, GoPuff, CPI, Pets at Home
News from Ocado about its new technology of robots to make picking online groceries even quicker filles the papers this morning.
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Warburtons takes minority stake in non-HFSS cookie start-up Snackzilla
Warburtons has invested a six-figure sum in kids’ healthier snacking brand Snackzilla as part of its Batch Ventures bakery innovation fund
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Inflation and supply chain disruption lead to wave of profit warnings in 2021
Profit warnings at retailers and food & drink suppliers accounted for a third of all warnings issued by UK listed companies in 2021 as supply chain disruption and spiralling inflation hit at the back end of the year
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Dash Water appoints David Milner as chairman to support its rapid growth in 2022
Seltzer brand Dash Water has closed a multimillion-pound investment round to maintain its rapid growth, with backing from industry veteran David Milner, who also joins the business as chairman.
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City Snapshot: Pets at Home raises profits guidance as shoppers splurge on Christmas presents for pets
Pets at Home Group has lifted its profit expectations after a bumper Christmas as momentum picked up during lockdown carried on throughout 2021. Plus, Premier Foods appoints Tania Howarth, former COO at Nomad Foods, to its board.
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Media Bites 25 January: Unilever, CO2, THG
Unilever continues to make headlines this morning as the papers digest what the arrival of activist investor Nelson Peltz means for the Marmite maker.
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Comment & Opinion
Who is Nelson Peltz and what does he want with Unilever?
A titan in the activist hedge fund world, Peltz has plonked his tank on Unilever’s lawn
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City Snapshot: Pressure intensifies at Unilever as Nelson Peltz’s activist fund buys stake
Unilever’s embattled management team is under more pressure this week as it emerged that Nelson Peltz’s activist hedge fund Trian Partners has built a position in the consumer goods group.
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My Fabulosa reports doubling of sales as it shakes up household
Founder and MD James Sharpe told The Grocer the company was on track to continue its meteoric growth in 2022.
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Back to the drawing board: what does Unilever do now?
Its £50bn bid for GSK’s consumer healthcare business rejected, can Unilever’s under-pressure management restore City trust?
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Jamaica Rum Vibes wins backing from AB InBev VC fund
It follows the business completing an accelerator programme at Add Psalt, which focuses on growing black-owned brands in UK grocery.
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Omni raises £1.1m to accelerate growth of vegan dog food brand
Vet Guy Sandelowsky and former investment banker Shiv Sivakumar founded the business in 2020 in an attempt to make pet food more sustainable.
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Media Bites 21 January: Unilever, Premier Foods, Deliveroo, Associated British Foods
The fallout from Unilever’s disatrous buyout attempt of GSK Consumer Health continues to fill the column inches in this morning’s papers.
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Ex-Symington’s boss David Cox named CEO of dogfood maker Forthglade
Cox departed Symington’s following a takeover by Italian dairy and pasta group Newlat Food
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Mamamade raises £1.5m in oversubscribed funding round
The pre-seed round was made up of an oversubscribed crowdfunding campaign on the Seedrs platform, with almost £830k raised from more than 300 investors, more than doubling its £400k target.
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Media Bites 20 January: Unilever/GSK, inflation, WH Smith
Unilever dominates the headlines once more after saying it won’t pay any more than £50bn for the GSK consumer health arm.
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Unilever halts pursuit of GSK consumer health arm as it refuses to up £50bn offer
Unilever has drawn a line under the rollercoaster takeover attempt, following a chorus of negative feedback from shareholders and analysts
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Ecozone snapped up by HG International
Founded 20 years ago by the Van der Molen family, Ecozone produces a wide range of detergents, surface cleaners, dishwasher tablets, bin bags and mops using plant-based and natural ingredients and sustainable packaging.