The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
MANILA (Reuters) - San Miguel Brewery , the crown jewel of Southeast Asia's biggest food and drinks conglomerate, rose over 6 percent on its debut on Monday after its parent shrank its IPO price range and halved the number of shares on offer to sell the deal in a turbulent market.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The Jolly Green Giant has had a tough time of it lately. The processors who produce canned and frozen vegetables say they're finding it harder and more costly to find farmers to grow peas, beans, sweet corn and other crops, including organic varieties.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
MANILA - San Miguel Corp's domestic brewing unit debuted Monday on the Philippine Stock Exchange to a warm reception from investors looking for a long-term play, dealers said.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Carmichael Lynch's $200 million Subaru account got a little richer last week when the automaker awarded its $20 million digital business to the Minneapolis advertising agency.The decision by Subaru of America Inc. gives Carmichael Lynch total responsibility for its brand and retail work along with media planning and buying and dealer support. The new duties include the development of websites and online...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
THE FLAHAVAN'S cereal producing company, one of the oldest food companies in Ireland, made a pretax profit of €649,560 in the year to June 30th, 2007, on a turnover of €10.3 million.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
MANILA - San Miguel Corp's flagship domestic brewery rose on its market debut on Monday, opening at 8.30 pesos (19.5 U.S. cents) per share against an IPO price of eight pesos per share.
CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
According to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, 53 percent of Americans say they won't buy food that has been genetically modified. But CBS News investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports that it's not that easy to avoid. While most packaged and processed foods do contain genetically modified ingredients, the labels don't have to say so.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
The new head of the world's largest food company thrives on action, writes Jonathan Sibun
The Independent (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
The current problems of listing on AIM are well documented. Companies are struggling to attract investors; the number of groups floating without raising funds is soaring.
Beer Activist (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Move over wine, here comes craft beer. Savor is America’s first modern national event aiming to elevate beer to a seat at the grown-ups table of high cuisine. For as long as anyone can remember, beer has been the pedestrian beverage that knows its place: the bar, the barbecue grill, and the front porch after cutting [...]
New Urban Legends (Free subscription) | yesterday
Study attributed to fast food companies claims the more overweight one is, the healthier one is.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
BEIJING -- Nothing about the lunch rush at a McDonald's in China would feel out of place in America: Students huddled around video games and fries; a computer salesman scarfing a chicken sandwich; a teacher lingering over a hamburger and coffee.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Marks and Spencer is to do the unthinkable - stock rival products on its shelves.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
BALAD, Iraq, May 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Agribusiness Program, 'Inma,' is leading the way to economic recovery in the city of Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad. A $5 million grant to restart operations at the Balad Canning Factory (BCF) is part of a larger regional project that will help restore agricultural and agribusiness operations throughout...
We Like It Raw (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
If there is one question I get asked more often than any others, it is this: "What kind of beauty care products do you use?" Ironically enough, I guess I would have to say..."Just my diet". Make-up artists and hairstylists...
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fionar | 05/05/2008
take a magical trip in words, photographs and recipes discovering coffee in the Philippines (book review)
harish | 03/24/2008
Plastic to make continued market share gains on paper In markets where plastic and paper compete as packaging materials, plastic is expected to make continued, albeit slower, inroads at the expense of paper and paperboard, increasing its share of poundage to 52 percent in 2010. Plastic has made the greatest advances in primary packaging but remains far less significant than paper in secondary packaging
legionofmarduk | 03/14/2008
Let's face it, Frenchmen are quite proud of their cooking, and with a reason; and while there are few cuisines around able to look theirs square in the eye the fact stands that one of them comes from a country with which France not only shares a geographical border, but also a deep-running love-hate relationship...
