Food giants Nestlé and Unilever disclosed deals to buy small, homegrown, natural brands as they race to catch up with changing consumer tastes.
Reckitt Benckiser said four senior executives are leaving the firm, an unusually large exodus at a time when the consumer giant,is absorbing its biggest-ever acquisition and coping with a series of headwinds.
Finding a new recipe for growth at food giant Nestlé could take longer than investors like New York activist Dan Loeb seem to think.
The consumer electronics giants are quickly moving to hire an army of traveling salespeople and technicians who will visit customers’ homes to recommend and even install products.
Raybern Foods LLC is receiving financial advice from Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. and Piper Jaffray & Co., said people familiar with the matter.
Investor Nelson Peltz has launched a fight for a board seat at Procter & Gamble, in an effort to jolt the consumer-products giant whose sales and profit growth stalled, Peltz’s Trian Fund Management said.
Church & Dwight said Monday it will buy Water Pik for $1 billion in cash from private-equity firm MidOcean Partners.
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So-called heat-not-burn cigarettes have finally come of age. But it may pay to bet on the challenger, not the leader.
Investors increasingly seem to expect the same sugar rush from Nestlé that they have got this year from Unilever. But that comparison shouldn’t be pushed too far.
Procter & Gamble Co. said its finance chief, Jon Moeller, will get the new title of vice chairman as part of the company’s turnaround.