USA: Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble are among 20 companies to have pulled advertising from Fox News' Glenn Beck Program after the controversial presenter branded Barack Obama "a racist" with a "deep-seated hatred of white people". The Rupert Murdoch-owned TV channel positions itself as anti-Obama, but the programme prompted outrage following its broadcast on 28 July.
Color of Change, an African-American online political organisation, gathered 145,000 signatures asking Beck's advertisers to stop supporting him. "It's rare for a campaign directed at a TV show's advertisers to be this successful," said Color of Change founder James Rucker.
TANZANIA: Brewing giant SABMiller has won a High Court ruling stopping Diageo from buying another brewer in Tanzania until a separate dispute between the two is decided. Diageo's East African division will not be allowed to buy Serengeti Breweries until at least January 2011 or the original dispute has been resolved.
SABMiller is currently the sole brewer and distributor of Diageo brands including Guinness and Tusker lager in Tanzania, but Diageo wants to end the arrangement. The International Chamber of Commerce is arbitrating in the case.
USA: Florida's citrus crop is forecast to fall in volume by as much as 13% next season. The comments from a leading commodities trader are likely to further fuel the recent surge in orange juice futures prices. Louis Dreyfus, the France-based trader, which is a leading force in orange juice processing, forecast a crop of 141 million boxes, down from this season's 162.1 million boxes each of 90lb, or 40.8kg.
NEW ZEALAND: Cadbury has bowed to consumer and environmentalist pressure in New Zealand and removed palm oil from its Dairy Milk line there. Environmental campaigners argued that palm oil production contributed to deforestation and harmed animal species such as orang-utans. Cadbury had been using the oil as a cheap source of vegetable fat, but agreed to use only cocoa butter from now on.
Color of Change, an African-American online political organisation, gathered 145,000 signatures asking Beck's advertisers to stop supporting him. "It's rare for a campaign directed at a TV show's advertisers to be this successful," said Color of Change founder James Rucker.
TANZANIA: Brewing giant SABMiller has won a High Court ruling stopping Diageo from buying another brewer in Tanzania until a separate dispute between the two is decided. Diageo's East African division will not be allowed to buy Serengeti Breweries until at least January 2011 or the original dispute has been resolved.
SABMiller is currently the sole brewer and distributor of Diageo brands including Guinness and Tusker lager in Tanzania, but Diageo wants to end the arrangement. The International Chamber of Commerce is arbitrating in the case.
USA: Florida's citrus crop is forecast to fall in volume by as much as 13% next season. The comments from a leading commodities trader are likely to further fuel the recent surge in orange juice futures prices. Louis Dreyfus, the France-based trader, which is a leading force in orange juice processing, forecast a crop of 141 million boxes, down from this season's 162.1 million boxes each of 90lb, or 40.8kg.
NEW ZEALAND: Cadbury has bowed to consumer and environmentalist pressure in New Zealand and removed palm oil from its Dairy Milk line there. Environmental campaigners argued that palm oil production contributed to deforestation and harmed animal species such as orang-utans. Cadbury had been using the oil as a cheap source of vegetable fat, but agreed to use only cocoa butter from now on.
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