Sustainability

To date, most retailers rely on plastic packaging to discourage thieves who were slitting packages open, grabbing the contents and dropping empty packaging back on shelves.

L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics maker, agrees to pay $1.14 billion for Body Shop International, the U.K. retailer of natural beauty products.

Kraft Foods Inc. is reorganizing its European operations to increase consumer focus and improve speed to market.

Nestl is the first food company to partner with the Fair Labor Association to investigate whether children are working on cocoa farms supplying its factories.