Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Unilever PLC" produced 85 items.
| 1. Ombudsman warns of conflict of interest at food safety authority | December 8, 2011 |
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Report says European Food Safety Authority broke rules by allowing a member of staff to change jobs. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) failed to follow procedural... | |
| 2. Accelerating the anti-trust process | April 20, 2011 |
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Almunia outlines how the Commission is cutting the time it takes to deal with law-breakers. Agreeing settlements with companies guilty of running cartels is allowing the... |
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| 3. Employers criticise work transfer plans | July 22, 2010 |
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Complaints that proposals do not help employees' partners receive work permits. A business lobby group has criticised proposals from the European Commission to help... |
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| 4. Business in brief | June 3, 2010 |
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Body-care probe The European Commission on Monday (31 May) launched an in-depth investigation into the planned takeover by consumer-goods giant Unilever of Sara Lee's... | |
| 5. Commission to probe Unilever's takeover of Sara Lee unit | June 1, 2010 |
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Commission says it will investigate consumer-goods giant's bid for competitor's personal care business The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation into... |
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| 6. Critics of food labelling warn of protectionism | April 15, 2010 |
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The European Commission provoked tensions over food labelling, and now the European Parliament is having similar difficulties. How many nutritional facts should be stamped... |
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| 7. The difference between milk and milk | November 12, 2009 |
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Meeting a man charged with preparing the dairy industry for life after milk quotas. “There has been quite a lot on the agenda this year,” says Joop Kleibeuker, with a... |
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| 8. Trying to get the message across about advertising | May 14, 2009 |
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Parents and industry have different views about who should regulate advertising to children. Advertising has become one of the key battlegrounds in the fight against... |
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| 9. Running and spinning a tight web of connections | October 16, 2008 |
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Unilever's European public affairs team is headed by an energetic front-runner. The ringtone on her mobile phone is Johann Sebastian Bach, but that might be the only note of... |
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| 10. Business in brief | June 26, 2008 |
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| 11. The formula for independence | May 15, 2008 |
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The first head of the EU chemicals agency is under pressure to prove his independence. Geert Dancet, a European Commission official since 1986, is not a chemist by training.... |
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| 12. Building consensus on chemical laws? | April 24, 2008 |
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Making chemicals law seems quicker when politicians suffer from ‘fatigue'. The ink on Europe's REACH legislation was barely dry when EU lawmakers found themselves facing... |
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| 13. A recipe for the survival of an industry | January 31, 2008 |
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The European food industry must work harder to maintain its competitiveness, writes Jennifer Rankin. Bras and shoes, TVs and widgets are now cheaper to make in Asia, but... | |
| 14. Food firms helping Europeans to fight the fat | January 31, 2008 |
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Europe is getting fatter. Jennifer Rankin reports on industry efforts to curb growing levels of obesity. For the food industry, Europeans' expanding waistlines have been the... | |
| 15. Movers & shakers | January 17, 2008 |
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The European Commission has appointed Jos Delbeke as deputy director-general for the environment, a newly created post. The 52-year-old Belgian has been working at the... | |
| 16. Chemicals and consumers: a question of confidence | December 4, 2007 |
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A full-day European Voice policy conference debating chemicals legislation (REACH implementation, the ECHA, GHS), this issues for downstream users of chemicals and how... | |
| 17. Movers & Shakers | July 12, 2007 |
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The European Commission has appointed Martine Reicherts as director-general of the publications office. She is currently director of the Commission's office for... | |
| 18. Consumers won't let Commission off the hook | November 23, 2006 |
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Fish is something that we should eat more of, but catch less of. On the one hand, health experts recommend that people should increase their consumption of fish, a food... | |
| 19. A helping hand towards a better diet | November 23, 2006 |
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Teachers, parents and politicians try to influence the way we think about food, pushing us to choose some products over others. But to have a real effect on supermarket... | |
| 20. Experts aim to boost shareholders' rights | July 20, 2006 |
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The European Commission will on Monday (24 July) publish the recommendations of a high-level group of experts on the proposed shareholders' rights directive. The proposal... | |
