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Greencore Plans Cash Call After Profit Sinks On Pandemic Impact

Food group Greencore has announced plans to raise cash by issuing new shares after reporting an 81% plunge in annual profit due to the COVID...

Danone Lays Out Productivity Plans In Virus-Led Restructuring

French food group Danone has laid out plans for becoming a more efficient organisation in a post-COVID world, including by cutting costs, trimmin...

Pfizer Ends COVID-19 Trial With 95% Efficacy

Pfizer Inc said that final results from the late-stage trial of its COVID-19 vaccine show it was 95% effective, adding it had the required two-months of sa...

End Of An Era As Unilever UK Shareholders Back Unification Plan

Shareholders in Unilever Plc have approved the company's plan to end its 90-year-old dual-headed structure in favour of a single London-based ent...

Imperial Brands Sees Full-Year Revenue Flat, Earnings Down

British tobacco company Imperial Brands forecast full-year net revenue to be broadly flat and in line with market estimates, as it works through...

Aryzta Reports 13% Revenue Drop In Full Year 2020

Cuisine de France owner Aryzta has said that its revenue for the full year, 2020 was down 13.4%. All of the Irish-Swiss group's territories saw a declin...

Nestlé CEO Says Pandemic Has Made Management More Hands-On

Food giant Nestlé said the COVID-19 pandemic has forced its senior management to become more immersed in daily operations as executives ne...

Baking, Cereal Demand Boosts General Mills' Sales, Shares Rise

General Mills Inc beat sales and profit estimates for the first quarter on Wednesday, as people stuck at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic stocked up on it...