FACTBOX-The Benettons: Italian magnates who went from sweaters to roads

[ad_1] MILAN, July 15 (Reuters) – The Benetton family started building its fortune in the 1960s with a small Italian knitwear factory and ended up at the head of an…

Dutch vote brings Unilever step closer to unification

[ad_1] By Toby Sterling, Martinne Geller AMSTERDAM/LONDON (Reuters) – Unilever NV UNA.AS shareholders approved plans to end the Anglo-Dutch company’s dual-headed corporate structure and form a London-based entity, which it…

Disagreements over level playing field weigh on EU-UK talks – Sky News

[ad_1] LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) – The trade talks between Britain and the European Union have suffered fresh problems because of disagreements about guarantees of a so-called level-playing field in…

Brazil’s BRF settles U.S. class action suit for $40 million: filing

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: Logos of Brazilian meatpacker BRF SA are seen in the headquarters in Curitiba, Brazil October 1, 2019. REUTERS/Rodolfo Buhrer SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian food processor BRF…

Germany orders 29,000 chickens culled after bird flu found on farm

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: Free-range chicken are seen on a field outside Munich, southern Germany, August 8, 2017. REUTERS/Michael Dalder/File Photo HAMBURG (Reuters) – About 29,000 chickens will be slaughtered in…

France sticking to ‘red lines’ as Brexit talks continue – govt spokesman

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: Fishermen empty a fishing net aboard the Boulogne-sur-Mer based trawler “Nicolas Jeremy” in the North Sea, off the coast of northern France, December 7, 2020. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol…

UK and EU can see ‘landing zone’ on level playing field – RTE

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: British and European Union flags flutter ahead of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s arrival for a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels,…

Denmark’s Chr Hansen to sell food colouring unit to Sweden’s EQT

[ad_1] Sept 26 (Reuters) – Danish ingredients maker Chr Hansen Holding A/S said on Saturday it would sell its food colouring business to Swedish private equity firm EQT for 800…

Final curtain for Danish mink as government bans breeding

[ad_1] COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark on Monday agreed on a temporary ban on mink breeding, leaving little hope to rebuild the industry, which pioneered the global fur trade. Mink pelts…