Food and Beverage Industry

Earnings highlights: CBS, Comcast, News Corp., Time Warner, UBS, Viacom ...

BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | yesterday

Filed under: Earnings reports , Time Warner (TWX) , Viacom (VIA) , CBS Corp 'B' (CBS) , Clorox Co (CLX) , Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA) , Dean Foods (DF) , News Corp'B' (NWS) , Garmin Ltd (GRMN) , World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Here are some highlights from last week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS ) reported that Q3 revenue was flat while earnings and cash flow declined....

Cadbury to slam Kraft’s ‘cheap’ hostile bid

Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

ROGER CARR, the Cadbury chairman, will issue a caustic rebuttal to Kraft, the American food group, when it tables a £10 billion hostile bid for the Dairy Milk maker tomorrow.

Open Farm Sunday

vagabondblogger (Free subscription) | yesterday

Last week we went to Open Farm Sunday , sponsored by Cabot Creamery Cooperative, and hosted by a local farm. Awesome Daughter was not interested in staying too long, until...they offered her complimentary corn chowder and sharp cheddar cheese. It was somewhat coincidental, as we were talking about making corn chowder for dinner. VB presents a short tour of the farm. We had fun. And, of course, everyone...

Cheese tourists churn up Gouda time

JSOnline (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

If there ever was any doubt about the drawing power of Wisconsin's claim to dairy fame, the first weekend festival at Monona Terrace offered plenty of evidence that cheese is ripe for foodie tourism.

Milma: no plan to recover profit given to farmers

Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday

Kozhikode: The Kerala Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (Milma) has clarified that it has no plans to recover the operating profit it had earlier disbursed to dairy farmers. An official release issued by Milma chairman P.P. ...

Domestic demand for milk is increasing, says Sharad Pawar

Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday

‘National Dairy Plan to achieve 180 million tonnes of milk ready’

Memo to the Heinz people - Pittsburgh ends in 'h'

Adrian Moore (Free subscription) | yesterday

Funny how such a simple thing such as, GASP, fact-checking can get overlooked by a multibillion dollar company such as Heinz. Yes, people, Pittsburgh is spelled with a 'h' at the end.... ...just not on the millions of 140 year commemorative bottles that just hit the shelves.

Elvis

TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday

From Private Elvis , a collection of sleazy photos of G.I. era Elvis on leave in Paris having fun, long out of print.... From Pic mag, May, '56, a digest size sleaze mag... Nowadays, anytime some weenie pulls out a guitar there's twelve morons with a camera phone there to document the event, but there are very few great recordings from rock'n'roll's golden era. There are no great live recordings from...

Judge vacates $1.26B ruling against PepsiCo

Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday

A judge has tossed out a decision — for now at least — that could have cost PepsiCo Inc. $1.26 billion after the soft drink maker didn't respond to a lawsuit claiming it stole the

Sea rise much slower than predicted

A Western Heart (Free subscription) | yesterday

SEA levels on Australia's eastern seaboard are rising at less than a third of the rate that the New South Wales Government is predicting as it overhauls the state's planning laws and bans thousands of landowners from developing coastal sites. The Rees Government this week warned that coastal waters would rise 40cm on 1990 levels by 2050, with potentially disastrous effects. Even yesterday Kevin Rudd...

• Rise in sea levels on Australia's eastern seaboard much slower than predicted - Sify
• Shock: Sea level rises far less than forecast - Australian Climate Madness

Kraft set for hostile move on Cadbury

getfoodnews (Free subscription) | yesterday

US food group Kraft was on Friday preparing to launch a hostile takeover bid for Cadbury in its ambition to create a combined global confectionery group. Kraft was finalising its plans to make a direct appeal to the shareholders of Britain’s best-known chocolate brand by Monday when a “put-up or shut-up” deadline enforced by the Takeover Panel expires, according to people familiar...

10 Sacramento-area employers honored for wellness programs

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday

ANNE CHADWICK WILLIAMS awilliams@sacbee.com Workers at Vision Service Plan in Rancho Cordova put walking in their workday. From left, Joanne Luong, Mae Fong, Jeanneane Crabb, Judy Goss and Lydia Alicea. They're taking long walks during their lunch breaks, enjoying healthier food from their cafeterias and commissaries, and keeping body and mind fit with yoga and Pilates. And their employers, familiar...

Cranberry Chambord Sorbet - Pink Saturday

One Perfect Bite (Free subscription) | yesterday

From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite... This is a lovely palate cleanser to serve at the end of a heavy meal. I try to keep a quart of it in the freezer for those who don't like, or have room for, more traditional holiday desserts. Sorbet is a frozen dessert that's a bit like gelato, but it's softer and contains no dairy products. It's made with sugar and a fruit puree and it's suitable for vegan diets....

Beerfest Tomorrow

Good Burp (Free subscription) | yesterday

Again, going down to the line with my post. But don't worry, I made with 3 hours to spare. Good thing too, because I have to go to bed soon. I have a big day tomorrow. What could be so important as to make me go to bed sober on a Friday night at 9:30? BEERFEST ! That's right ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow is the Southwest Brewfest ! Yes, I am a little excited about it. I always get excited about a...

FDA Cracks Down On Misleading “Smart Choices” Food Labels

TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | yesterday

mikelicht's Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The FDA has announced plans to investigate the “Smart Choices” initiative, an industry-led nutrition labeling program, arguing that the labels may mislead the public by implying that sugary foods are healthy. I’m amazed that the “Smart Choices” label has gotten this far, considering it was trying to suggest that Froot Loops...

Inglourious Basterds proves you can have your Nazis and kill 'em too

jeffreyvc | 22/08/2009

Quentin Tarantino may be lacking in some things, but its certainly not enthusiasm. Inglourious Basterds is a disgusting movie about killing & scalping Nazis; these types of movies don’t usually win anything but MTV awards for categories like “Best WTF Moment.” Yet, it is so funny, charming, and aggrandizing that I can’t help but love it. Tarantino manages to pull a great performance from everyone in

HM Revenue & Customs - DISCLOSURE - $1,000,000,000 Tax Evasion Organised Crime Syndicate - LOCKDOWN - FBI SOCA Carroll Case

carrolltrust | 07/08/2009

The UK HM Inland Revenue and Customs is completing an exhaustive investigation into the rapid break-up and liquidation of a multi-national industrial and philanthropic conglomerate which once boasted assets totalling over one billion dollars under the umbrella of the Carroll Foundation and the Carroll Global Corporation being one of the main world wide operating structures of the Carroll Foundation

Howard Hughes Carroll Estate Interests named Victims in Britain's Biggest Scandal - HSBC Coutts Banks $1,000,000,000 Fraud Case

carrolltrust | 04/08/2009

The UK HM Inland Revenue and Customs is completing an exhaustive investigation into the rapid break-up and liquidation of a multi-national industrial and philanthropic conglomerate which once boasted assets totalling over one billion dollars under the umbrella of the Carroll Foundation and the Carroll Global Corporation being one of the main world wide operating structures of the Carroll Foundation