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- 8/29/2011
Sara Lee Names CEO of CoffeeCo
<div>Sara Lee Corp. has named Michiel Herkemij as CEO of CoffeeCo, the beverage business that will split from the food maker next year.</div><br /> - 8/29/2011
Chiquita Joins USDA MyPlate Program
Chiquita will begin by placing the MyPlate icon on its healthy snacking products across North America to point consumers to the place where they can get science-based nutrition guidance.<br /> - 8/29/2011
Nestle Invests in Thailand
<div>Nestle will invest more than CHF 98 million (THB 3.5 billion) in Thailand to increase manufacturing of its products including coffee and ice cream.</div><br /> - 8/29/2011
Green Mountain Coffee Sells Business
After acquiring Van Houtte from LJVH Holdings, GMCR announced it would pursue a sale of a portion of the business known as Filterfresh. - 8/28/2011
Consumers Expect Another Economic Downturn
The majority of households report worsened finances and anticipate a rising unemployment rate during the year ahead. The sinking economy has made consumers more defensive, favoring spending cutbacks rather using savings or debt. - 8/28/2011
Dole Adopts Collaborative Data Collection
The largest producer and marketer of high-quality fresh fruit and fresh vegetables in the world creating a fluid, collaborative data collection process that improves tax department control - 8/23/2011
Solo, Kellogg's, 3M on Alice.com E-Commerce Platform
<div>Alice.com is now powering more than 100 storefronts for some of the worlds largest CPG brands with the recent addition of Solo Cup Company, Kelloggs, 3M and Ecover.</div><br /> - 8/23/2011
Seventh Generation Adds New CMO
<div>Joey Bergstein comes to Seventh Generation from Diageo, a premium spirits company, where he was Senior Vice President of Global Rum.</div><br /> - 8/23/2011
Unilever Finds Buyer for Two Brands
The divestiture is required by the US DOJ in conjunction with Unilevers $3.7 billion acquisition of the Alberto Culver Company, which was completed on May 10, 2011. - 8/22/2011
Electrolux Acquires Chilean Appliance Company CTI
<div>The acquisition makes Electrolux the largest supplier of appliances in Chile and Argentina.</div><br />