Finance news – Page 25
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Village Bakery set to command £160m price tag as PE owner explores exit
Village Bakery is seeking new owners, with its private equity backer having tasked bankers with running an auction for the premium private-label bread maker
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Shicken wins further multimillion backing from Matthew Glover’s Veg Capital
The brand will use the £4m cash injection to scale up manufacturing capacity and ‘realise the global potential of its restaurant-quality range’
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Modern Milkman expands into US with acquisition of namesake milk round business
Online grocery delivery service Modern Milkman has acquired its US namesake as part of an ambitious expansion to take its sustainability mission overseas
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Hovis turnaround picks up under new management team
Hovis has made big strides in its turnaround as significant price hikes helped boost revenues and profitability
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City snapshot: Ocado Retail hails “strong” Q1 performance
Ocado Retail has made a “strong” start to the year as the joint online venture with M&S continued to grow its market shares. Plus, the grocery latest market share data from Kantar and full-year results from Fever-Tree and AG Barr
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Media Bites 26 March: Unilever, Hovis, vapes
London’s stock market is braced for a further blow after the chief executive of Unilever suggested that the Netherlands had “a good chance” of hosting the conglomerate’s €17bn spun-off ice cream division
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Little Moons hires Graze boss Joanna Allen as new CEO
Ice cream challenger Little Moons has appointed industry heavyweight Joanna Allen as its new CEO to fill the vacant position left by the surprise exit of Mike Hedges last month, The Grocer can reveal
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Accrol subject of £130m takeover bid as Navigator sets sights on UK toilet tissue
Portugal’s Navigator, a paper and pulp group listed on the Lisbon Stock Exchange, offered 38p a share to buy the Blackburn-headquartered business that counts all the UK’s major supermarkets and discounters as customers
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Freshways swoops to rescue bread wholesaler Coultons from collapse
Freshways has swooped to rescue bread wholesaler Coultons from administration in a deal that solidifies the acquisitive dairy group’s position in the bread market
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City snapshot: Virgin Wines UK confident of meeting full-year profit forecasts
Underlying profits have more than doubled at Virgin Wines UK in the first half as the DTC group implemented a turnaround strategy
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Media Bites 25 March: Unilever, food security, Ocado, Asda
Unilever’s move to spin off ice creams continues to make headlines into the weekend
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S-Ventures in takeover talks with AIM-listed investment firm
Struggling fmcg investor S-Ventures is in talks with an AIM-listed firm over a potential takeover to support future growth
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Unilever to spin off ice cream division in £15bn move
Unilever has unveiled plans to spin out its €7bn (£6bn) global ice cream business in an acceleration of new boss Hein Schumacher’s strategy to turn around the group’s performance
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City News: Hangover for Naked Wines investors
Shareholders in Naked Wines suffered another hangover this week as media reports on the online wine retailer hiring Interpath to refinance its debt sent the shares tanking by more than 20%
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City snapshot: Consumer confidence ‘vanishes’ in March
Consumer confidence stalled in March but a shift in attitudes to personal finance provided optimism for the future, according to a closely watched survery released this morning. Plus, the latest retail sales for Feburary from the ONS
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Media Bites 22 March: Unilever, Asda, Waitrose
Unilever continues to make headlines following the news of its plans to spin-off the ice cream business
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Bold Bean Co leaves Dragons’ Den with £50k investment
Bold Bean Co has struck a deal with Deborah Meaden during an appearance on Dragons’ Den tonight
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City snapshot: General Mills Q3 profits beat expectations
Profits at US consumer packaged goods group General Mills have risen more than expected in its third quarter as price hikes and cost cutting offset volume declines
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Media Bites 21 March: Ad ban, vapes, Greggs
Sheffield City Council has laid out a new advertising policy aimed at cracking down on campaigns deemed harmful to the environment and people’s health
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GrowUp Farms appoints former Ella’s Kitchen boss Will Howard as UK MD
Howard, who joined in February, will oversee a scaling up as the business grows to sell more than one million bags of salad a week