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ARTICLES BY THOMAS BUCKLEY

Like most streaming services, Apple TV+ spends more of its budget on TV shows. Its first huge hit was the comedy series Ted Lasso (AFP)

Apple to spend $1 billion a year on films to break into cinemas

3 min read . 23 Mar 2023

AstraZeneca vaccine (Photo: Reuters)

Astra-Oxford covid vaccine: Does it match with rivals? Here’s what we know

3 min read . 23 Nov 2020

Reckitt Benckiser CEO Rakesh Kapoor is optimistic about the pharmaceutical giant’s growth prospects. Photo: Reuters

Reckitt Benckiser CEO Rakesh Kapoor aims for comeback from worst year ever

1 min read . 19 Feb 2018

The ad, posted on Dove’s US Facebook page, showed a black woman lifting her T-shirt to reveal a similarly clad white woman, who in turn transformed into an Asian woman. Photo: Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

Unilever’s Dove apologizes after ‘racist’ soap advertisement

1 min read . 09 Oct 2017

Actor George Clooney created Casamigos in 2013 with developer Mike Meldman and entertainment entrepreneur Rande Gerber. Photo: AP

George Clooney sells tequila brand Casamigos to Diageo for $1 billion

3 min read . 23 Jun 2017

Jimmy Choo has seen its shares rebound over the past nine months as demand for premium goods has revived. Photo: Reuters

Jimmy Choo, Bally up for sale as JAB shifts focus on coffee

2 min read . 24 Apr 2017

Food companies like Unilever and Nestle are under pressure to lift costs in order to boost profit margins as potential predators like Kraft Heinz look for consolidation opportunities. Photo: Reuters

Unilever, Nestle price rises boost outlook as demand plunges

3 min read . 20 Apr 2017

Unilever CEO Paul Polman. Unilever shares surged as much as 14% in London and 11% in Amsterdam, valuing the maker of Dove soap at about £111 billion. Photo: Bloomberg

Kraft Heinz to prod Unilever for a merger despite rejection

2 min read . 17 Feb 2017

Under Indian stock market regulations, Diageo could raise its stake to just under 75% without triggering a delisting offer. Photo: AFP

Diageo said to weigh raising stake in United Spirits after Vijay Mallya’s exit

1 min read . 18 Jan 2017

The deal would help Asahi position its overseas business as a growth engine to transform itself into a global powerhouse. Photo: AFP

Asahi to buy SABMiller’s European beers in $7.8 billion deal

2 min read . 13 Dec 2016

Amid a stagnant beer market, the faster growing craft segment has attracted larger players whose brands increasingly have fallen out of favour with consumers. Photo: AFP

Craft beer market slowing down, says world’s largest brewer

2 min read . 28 Oct 2016

Emma Walker, a whisky specialist and blender at Diageo Plc, tests the aroma of a single malt, single grain whiskey taken from a sample bottle. Photo: : Matthew Lloyd/Bloomberg

When Johnnie Walker needed a boost, Diageo turned to a chemist

4 min read . 12 Oct 2016

Acquiring SABMiller, which makes Fosters and Miller and traces its roots to the former South African Breweries, gives AB InBev a large presence in Africa while increasing its business in South America and Europe. Photo: Reuters

Shareholders approve $103 billion SABMiller takeover by AB InBev

2 min read . 28 Sept 2016

SABMiller board proposed that its two shareholders, Altria Group and Bevco, be treated as a separate class of stockholders and allow other SABMiller investors to vote on the new offer separately. Photo: Bloomberg

SABMiller board recommends AB InBev’s new $104 billion offer

2 min read . 30 Jul 2016

Unilever shares have climbed since Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, benefiting from the potential boost to earnings from the falling pound. Photo: Reuters

Unilever sales beat estimates on growth in personal care

1 min read . 21 Jul 2016

Beer volume rose 7%, trouncing analysts’ expectation of 2.4%, the world’s third-biggest brewer Heineken said Wednesday in a statement. Photo: Reuters

Heineken beer shipments beat estimates, raising bar for peers

2 min read . 20 Apr 2016

Unilever shares rose 1.7% in Amsterdam on Wednesday, giving the company a market value about 123 billion euros. Photo: AFP

Unilever sales meet estimates on gains in home and personal care

1 min read . 14 Apr 2016

A file photo of Rakesh Kapoor, CEO of Reckitt Benckiser, whose health unit accounts for about 31% of revenue and has grown sales by more than 10% in each quarter this year. Photo: Bloomberg

Reckitt Benckiser CEO would look at buying Pfizer consumer unit

1 min read . 04 Dec 2015

Anheuser-Busch InBev NV is planning to sell bonds worth as much as $55 billion to finance its $106 billion takeover of SABMiller Plc. Photo: Bloomberg

AB InBev said to plan $55 billion bond sale for SABMiller deal

1 min read . 15 Oct 2015