October 15, 2007/Trieste, Italy & Atlanta/Business Wire -- The Coca-Cola Company and illycaffè SpA announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a global joint venture focused on
October 16/New York/PRNewswire -- Leblon, a luxury spirit from Brazil and the most award-winning cachaca on the market, announced today that Bacardi has become an investor in the company. Leblon
October 16/Raleigh, N.C./PRNewswire/ -- Pepsi Bottling Ventures LLC (PBV) has signed a Letter of Intent to purchase the assets of L.E. Farrell Company, the Pepsi-Cola franchise bottler based in Burlington,
October 14, 2007/Business Wire/Beijing -- The Coca-Cola Company announced the official opening of The Coca-Cola Research Center for Chinese Medicine at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing.
October 15/Haifa, Israel/PRNewswire/ -- Frutarom Industries Ltd. announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the share capital of the German companies Gewurzmuller GmbH and Blessing
October 18, 2007/ChinaRealNews delivered by Newstex/Beijing -- Starbucks and PepsiCo will launch "ready-to-drink" bottled coffee beverages in China, the companies said. China will be the first international foray for the
September 26, 2007/Chesterfield, Mo./Prime Newswire -- Reliv International Inc., a maker of soy-based nutritional supplements, announced the promotion of three executives to vice president. All are new positions. Reliv appointed
October 4/Washington/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Mike Welch, president and chief executive officer of Harrison Poultry, Bethlehem, Georgia, was installed today as chairman of the National Chicken Council, the trade association for the
September 25, 2007/Golden Valleny, Minn./Chicago Tribune and September 24, 2007/Minneapolis/Business Wire -- General Mills chief executive Steve Sanger is stepping down effective immediately, the nation's second-largest cereal-maker said. The company
October 4, 2007/New York/The International Herald Tribune and October 3, 2007/London/The Independent -- The increasingly fierce competition in the U.S. confectionery business claimed its most high-profile victim yet, as Richard