Profits up for Nestlé as confectionery sales improve
Nestlé, the world's number one food company, hopes to appease investors by offering a sizeable dividend payout, despite announcing a disappointing overall drop in 2004 sales, Tom Armitage reports.
Archives for February 24, 2005
Romania facing struggle to compete in sugar sector
Romanian sugar producers face a hard time in the run-up to the country's predicted accession to the EU in 2007, with few firms capable of the high level of investment that will be necessary to compete with other companies from the rest of the Union -...
Fischer Boel outlines EU CAP reform priorities
Mariann Fischer Boel, the EU's recently appointed agriculture commissioner, has claimed that sweeping EU agricultural reforms will provide UK farmers with a "better balance of support", while forging a more competitive and sustainable European...