Marketing

The offer's cash price per share and exchange ratio are unchanged from Kraft's September announcement, however, due to the fall in the Kraft share price since then, the implied value for each Cadbury share is around 4 percent lower.

Hostess is well recognized, trusted and the company's best-selling brand with more than $1 billion in annual retail sales.

The J.M. Smucker Company announces that the company's board of directors approved the promotions of corporate officers Mark R. Belgya and Dennis J. Armstrong effective Nov. 1, 2009.

General Mills advances its connected innovation efforts with the launch of a new Web-based platform.

Del Monte Foods announces that it will reorganize all consumer promotion and shopper marketing activities.

Changes are expected to generate cost savings of $1.4 to $1.7 billion when fully implemented in 2011.

The new COO is expected to immediately focus on leading and coordinating the organizational transformation of Dean Foods - both business unit and functional.

Malaysia's leading brewery is expected to reduce financial planning cycle time from three months to two weeks.