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Your Fridge And Car As An Advertising Tool? Unilever's Head Of Marketing Explains How This Will Be A Reality
Friday, May 6, 2016 - 12:31pm | 278Read More...Keith Weed is Unilever plc (ADR) (NYSE: UL)'s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. During a recent interview with CNBC, he shed some light on one of the hottest trends in marketing that will shape the advertising world in 2016 and beyond. Internet Of Things The Internet of Things (...
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Unilever Jumps Following Resignation Of Key Margarine Business Executive
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 12:14pm | 141Read More...Shares of Unilever plc (ADR) (NYSE: UL) were trading higher by nearly 4 percent on Tuesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that Sean Gogarty has resigned from the company. Gogarty was head of Unilever's baking cooking and spreads business and his departure from the company was due to...
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What Russian Bans Could Mean For Corporate Profits
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - 3:38pm | 729Read More...Russia's retaliatory ban on imports of food and beverages would likely have limited impact on companies like McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) and Unilever (NYSE: UN), according to Reuters. Other corporations such as Adidas and BP (NYSE: BP) indicated that a weakened ruble and...
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5 Publicly Traded Companies Paying Above Minimum Wage In 2014
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 12:31pm | 818Read More...While some large publicly traded companies such as Wal-Mart and Panera recently dropped its objections to raising the Federal minimum wage (currently $7.25 per hour), others have gone a step further. These five companies are paying above the minimum wage or have announced that they...
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5 Companies That Are Empowering Women
Friday, July 11, 2014 - 3:54pm | 1068Read More...During an interview with The Atlantic, last week, PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi told a crowd at the Aspen Ideas Festival that women “can't have it all,” meaning that you can't always succeed at both your home life and work life. “We pretend we can have it all,...
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5 British Blue Chips For Your Portfolio
Friday, July 11, 2014 - 9:20am | 458Read More...Investors should naturally be thinking risk management and protecting gains in this record bull market for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DIA) and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (NYSE: SPY). An effective way to accomplish this is by diversifying holdings with British blue...
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Market Wrap For May 22: Markets Barely Positive
Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 4:35pm | 2710Read More...U.S. stocks picked up right where they left off following Wednesday's rally. Investors were given a mixed bag of economic data covering U.S. manufacturing, initial purchasing managers' index in China, existing home sales, Fed activity among others. Investors are likely focusing more on...
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3 Ways To Profit From Consolidation In The Consumer Goods Industry
Monday, April 28, 2014 - 9:59am | 617Read More...With the consumer class expanding around the world, there has been a great deal of corporate activity in the companies that cater to this sector. For example, Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) is spending billions on acquisitions just to expand its presence in China. There are three ways for investors to...
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What Is The Tell From The Coca-Cola Deal With Green Mountain?
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 1:34pm | 607Read More...In poker, the "tell," according to Wikipedia, is, "...a change in a player's behavior or demeanor that is claimed by some to give clues to that player's assessment of their hand. A player gains an advantage if they observe and understand the meaning of another player's tell, particularly if the...
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Mobile Ad Spending Has Doubled So Far This Year
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 8:02am | 658Read More...Spending for the first half of 2013 on mobile advertising totaled $3 billion. It was $1.2 billion a year ago, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. This represents growth of 145 percent and was a significant contributor to the historic $20.1 billion brought in by Internet advertisers...
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Nordstrom Joins UBS List Of Top Dividend Payers
Saturday, August 17, 2013 - 12:01pm | 896Read More...The analysts at UBS have added Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) and Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) to their Dividend Rulers list. Two consumer goods companies already on the UBS list are Clorox (NYSE: CLX) and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ). UBS selects stocks for its Dividend Ruler list based...
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Temp Workers Fast Becoming a Corporate Trend
Monday, July 8, 2013 - 2:18pm | 687Read More...From small companies to large corporations, hiring of temporary workers is up. Newsday reported that, in addition to many small businesses, companies like Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), General Motors (NYSE: GM), and PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) are increasingly using part time help, or as Susan Houseman, an...
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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Earnings Preview: Strong Revenue Growth Expected
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 4:59pm | 747Read More...Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR), still the king of K-Cup coffee, is scheduled to report its first-quarter fiscal 2013 results Wednesday, February 6, after the markets close. The company turned things around in the fourth quarter after previous weak ones, and investors will be...
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Colgate-Palmolive Earnings Preview: Q1 EPS, Sales Expected to Be Higher
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 6:55am | 880Read More...Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL), shares of which are trading near a multiyear high, is scheduled to report first-quarter 2012 results tomorrow April 26, with a conference call and webcast at 11 AM Eastern. Investors will be looking for Colgate to get back on track after a profit decline in the fourth...
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Kraft Foods and Whole Foods to Open Near 52-Week Highs
Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 7:26am | 704Read More...The Dow closed up less than 1%, Nasdaq and S&P 500 more than 1%, yesterday, and plenty of stocks rose to new 52-week highs in the trading session. Among them were Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) and Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM), which reached multiyear highs of $38.82 and $78.29 per share,...
