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French food group Danone SA said softening commodity prices, robust growth in emerging markets and the expected benefits from the acquisition of Unimilk in Russia made it confident for 2012.

L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt's daughter won control over her 88-year-old mother's business affairs Monday almost two years after she first asked to take over on the grounds her mother had been exploited.

Francoise has been trying to gain control of the family’s assets for two years.

While the national unemployment rate is 9.1 percent (and Illinois has a 10 percent rate), Pembroke’s jobless rate stands at an astounding 50 percent.

HPQ shares are down about 6.1 percent as of 3:15 p.m. (New York time).

HPQ’s chief executive Leo Apotheker has already said he wants to grow the company’s presence in so-called “cloud computing” while shedding lower-margin businesses like PCs.

European food groups Nestle and Danone are the early frontrunners working on bids for Pfizer's Wyeth baby formula business, worth up to $10 billion, a banking source close to the situation said.

What do the best U.S. small towns to live in have in common? They all have low crime rates, good schools, and plenty of cultural activities, according to the latest small town survey by Money Magazine, which boasts that it has uncovered some hidden gems.

The world's biggest food group Nestle raised its full-year outlook on Wednesday after strong demand for its Maggi and Nescafe brands in emerging markets helped it post a forecast-beating 7.5 percent rise in underlying first-half sales.

The world's biggest food group Nestle raised its full-year outlook after strong demand for its Maggi and Nescafe brands in emerging markets helped it post a forecast-beating 7.5 percent rise in underlying first-half sales.

Where can investors hide when even gold and cash look dicey?

Nutritionists blame government for keeping produce pricey.

Food giant Nestle is taking a minority stake in a New Zealand maker of kiwi fruit-based products to prevent and treat constipation, expanding its presence in the field of gastrointestinal diseases.

SINGAPORE/ZURICH - Nestle , the world's largest food company, is paying a hefty $1.7 billion for a 60 percent stake in candymaker Hsu Fu Chi International to move deeper into fast-growing markets in China.

Nestle , the world's largest food company, is among companies in talks with Chinese candies and pastries group Hsu Fu Chi International on a deal that could be worth over $2 billion.

Nestle , the world's largest food company, is among companies in talks with Chinese candies and pastries group Hsu Fu Chi International on a deal that could be worth over $2 billion.

Nestle , the world's largest food group, expects the upward trend in raw material prices to persist, and its global operations provide a natural hedge against the strength of the Swiss franc, its chief executive said on Saturday.

Photos of Asus PadFone, which fuses a tablet with a smartphone have surfaced on the Internet even before it has made its debut at Computex 2011, giving rise to the billion dollar question - will the idea catch on?

Nestle's chairman hopes to stay on the board until 2017 and reiterated that the food producer has until 2014 to decide on its stake in French cosmetics company L'Oreal , a paper reported on Sunday.

Barry Callebaut , which makes chocolate for Nestle and Hershey , expects to outpace the market in the second half of its fiscal year despite unrest in the top cocoa growing Ivory Coast region.

U.S. stocks surged on Monday as sentiment was buoyed after Japan made progress in its battle to control radiation leaks at a crippled plant, and AT&T announced that it will buy T-Mobile USA from German company Deutsche Telekom to create the largest mobile provider in the United States.