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  • Reynolds American to Buy Lorillard for $27.4B
    Following the transaction, RAI is projected to have over $11 billion in revenues and approximately $5 billion in operating income.

  • Flowers Foods Makes Key Executive Promotions
    Flowers Foods names a new EVP and COO, a President of Flowers Bakeries (DSD operating segment), and an SVP of Flowers Bakeries West Coast region.

  • General Mills Invests $15M in China
    The focus is on developing high-quality products for Chinese consumers including snacks, convenient meals, yogurt and super-premium ice cream.

  • Lindt & Sprungli to Acquire Russell Stover

    The addition of the Russell Stover and Whitman's brands are expected to perfectly complement Lindt & Sprngli's existing chocolate portfolio and make the company the No. 3 North American chocolate manufacturer.

  • New Milestones in Mobile Engagement
    Mobile platforms combined to account for 60 percent of total digital media time spent, up from 50 percent a year ago. And perhaps more impressively, mobile apps accounted for more than half of all digital media time spent in May (51 percent), reinforcing the notion that as consumers turn to mobile, so must consumer goods companies.

  • Unilever Sells Slim-Fast to Kainos Capital
    The transaction includes the Slim-Fast trademark and the global Slim-Fast business portfolio. Slim-Fast is sold throughout North America and in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

  • Aerosoles Names EVP of Retail
    Kevin Mead will lead the strategic direction, ongoing expansion and operations of Aerosoles retail and outlet locations.

  • La Fresh Group Launches New Line
    Made in California, Eco-Beauty Be Good. is a line of highly-natural skincare products made with a natural anti-aging botanical complex of maqui berry, licorice root, ginkgo leaf, grape seed and hickory bark.
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