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Jack Daniel's Parent Brown-Forman Sees Net Sales Rise 2% In First Half

Brown-Forman, the parent company of Jack Daniel's, has seen its reported net sales rise by 2% in the first six months of its financial year, to $1.68 billi...

Dollar General Cuts Full-Year Forecast, Warns Of Tariff Hit

Dollar General Corp. cut its full-year profit and sales forecasts on Tuesday and warned that proposed tariffs on Chinese imports could begin to have a grea...

Altria In Talks To Buy Cannabis Company Cronos Group: Sources

Cigarette maker Altria Group Inc is in early stage talks to acquire Canadian cannabis producer Cronos Group Inc, as it seeks to diversify its business beyo...

Nestlé Health Science Inaugurates New Global R&D Centre In New Jersey

Nestlé Health Science has inaugurated a new global research and development hub - Nestlé Product Technology Centre - in Bridgewater in N...

Metro And Target Team Up On 'Global Retail Accelerator' Programme

German wholesaler Metro AG has teamed up with US retailer Target, in collaboration with Techstars, to launch a new global accelerator programme for start-u...

US, Canada, Mexico Sign Trade Deal, Trump Predicts Congress Approval

The United States, Canada and Mexico signed a North American trade pact on Friday, and President Donald Trump predicted an easy passage through U.S. Congre...

Kraft Heinz To Acquire Primal Kitchen For $200m

Kraft Heinz has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Primal Nutrition, LLC for around $200 million (€175.9 million). The transactio...

Dollar Tree Same-Store Sales Miss Estimates

Dollar Tree Inc missed analysts' estimates for quarterly same-store sales on Thursday, hit by a surprise drop in sales at its Family Dollar stores. The...