Premier Foods buys RHM for Â£1.2bn
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Premier Foods, the owner of brands such as Branston Pickle and Ambrosia Cream Rice, buys fellow food company RHM for Â£1.2bn.
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Annual sales of organic food and drink in the UK have hit Â£2bn, according to the Soil Association.
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RHM Ltd., the UK&#39;s biggest baker, is backing a government campaign to reduce salt in processed food such as the company&#39;s Hovis bread.
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Kraft, the struggling American food group, yesterday announced the $1.5bn (Â£810m) sale of its Life Savers and Altoids confectionery division to the chewing gum business Wm Wrigley Jr.
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The company behind the Madame Tussauds and London Eye tourist attractions is bought in a Â£1bn deal.
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Royal Ahold NV, the food retailer that owns the US Giant chain, agreed to sell its Spanish business to Permira funds for 685 million euros ($851 million).
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UK mini-conglomerate Novar has unveiled an Â£1.2bn ($2.3bn) bid from Honeywell of the US, a month on from rejecting another offer from Melrose.
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Kidde moved a step closer yesterday to being bought by America&#39;s United Technologies, which increased its offer for the UK fire extinguisher maker to Â£1.39bn.
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PREMIER FOODS emerged victorious in the bidding for another slice of UK larder shelf history. The owner of Ambrosia creamed rice has bought Birdâs custard and Angel Delight brands from Kraft for Â£70 million
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Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd., the world&#39;s largest dairy exporter, offered A$1.62 billion ($1.2 billion) for National Foods Ltd.
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Bird&#39;s custard and Angel Delight are back in British hands after a Â£70m deal announced yesterday. The famous brands have been bought by Premier Foods, owner of Ambrosia custard and Rowntrees jelly, from the US food group Kraft.
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Supermarket chain Somerfield is to take control of more than half of Scotland&#39;s Safeway branches. They are being sold by the company&#39;s new owner Morrisons as part of a Â£260m deal.
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Pinnacle Foods Corp., the maker of Duncan Hines baking mixes, Vlasic pickles and Aunt Jemima breakfast foods, has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Blackstone Group  for $1.2 billion, Pinnacle said on Monday.
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The government gives the go-ahead for the Â£1.06bn sale of helicopter maker AgustaWestland, based in Somerset.
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PREMIER FOODS today emerged victorious in the bidding for another slice of British gastronomic history. The owner of Ambrosia creamed rice has.
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Dairy firm Robert Wiseman secures a second major contract with a supermarket chain in two days.
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VNU, the Dutch market research and information group, yesterday sold its directories business for â¬2.1bn (Â£1.4bn) to venture capital groups Apax Partners and Cinven.