Slovenia’s Lasko brewery to buy Croatia’s Splitska brewery
Royal Ahold of Netherlands first quarter net earnings increase 31.5% to Euros 230.2 million
Dairy Crest of UK expects synergies from its Unigate acquisition to permit annual cost savings of around GBP 25 million by 2003
UK Bass expected to agree the sale of its brewing operations to Interbrew of Belgium for over GBP 2 billion in the next few days
CSM of the Netherlands and Associated British Foods among bidders for Unilever’s baking business
Strong soft drinks sales allow Carlsberg to report a 10% increase in first half turnover to DKr 16 billion and an 11% upturn in pre-tax profits to DKr 757 million
Tax increase to threaten Australia's beer market
Full details of Brazil's coffee retention plan are expected to be released by Friday
Indian tea production up 29.9% in January-April 2000
Italian merchant bank UBS Capital buys 10% of Campari
Unilever agrees to pay USD 20.3 billion for Bestfoods
PepsiCo plans low-key US launch of its FruitWorks juice based range