International Business

Verizon Business is teaming with GXS, a provider of business-to-business e-commerce solutions, to provide integrated supply chain management services to help large businesses control costs and improve efficiencies.

Cereal maker Kellogg Co. names Procter & Gamble Co. executive Robert A. Steele to its board, effective July 1. Steele is vice chairman, global health and well-being at Procter & Gamble.

ColepCCL, Europe's largest contract manufacturer of personal and household care products and associated packaging solutions, selects Sopheon's Accolade product life cycle management (PLM) system to support group-wide implementation of the company's innovation management process.

SABMiller plc will deploy Sopheon's Accolade product life cycle management system to support the company's new standardized process for managing initiatives within the business.

Unilever names its long-standing partner SAP as the global premium IT solution provider to enable and support its global business transformation strategy.

Chattem Inc. announces the closing of its previously announced agreement to acquire the rights to ACT, a branded over-the-counter (OTC) anti-cavity mouthwash/mouth rinse, in Western Europe with worldwide trademark rights from Johnson & Johnson for $4.1 million in cash plus certain assumed liabilities.

The Hain Celestial Group Inc., a natural and organic food and personal care products company, plans to acquire the tofu and meat-alternative business of WhiteWave Foods Company, a subsidiary of Dean Foods Company.

The Board of Directors of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company elects Max Grishakov, vice president and general manager -- Wrigley Russia, as an officer of the company.