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1 week ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Jacqueline Wong |Paolo Laudani |Christopher Cushing |Paul Arnold
(Reuters) -Zurich Insurance reported higher first-quarter revenue and gross written premiums at its core property and casualty (P&C) business on Thursday, maintaining its targets despite instability in the crucial U.S. market.
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1 month ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Danilo Masoni |Nathan Vifflin |Paolo Laudani |Akash Sriram
Bengaluru — Global technology stocks rose on Monday after the US exempted electronics such as smartphones and computer hardware from its steep reciprocal tariffs on China, offering some relief to a sector battered by supply-chain uncertainty. Big Tech shares have slumped in the past two weeks as tit-for-tat tariffs between Washington and Beijing stoked fears of higher component costs, softer consumer demand and the worst supply-chain disruption since the Covid-19 pandemic.
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1 month ago | 
kfgo.com | Paolo Laudani |Isabel Demetz
By Paolo Laudani and Isabel Demetz(Reuters) – Barry Callebaut is planning to increase its U.S.-based production to fend off effects of the “disruptive environment” in North America and stay close to its customers, the Swiss chocolate maker’s chief executive said on Thursday. “We have one … facility that we will scale out to about 100,000 tons in the United States that will allow us to actually serve customers better also in the U.S.,” CEO Peter Feld said during a post-earnings call with analysts.
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1 month ago | 
investing.com | Paolo Laudani |Isabel Demetz
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Empoyees of chocolate and cocoa product maker Barry Callebaut prepare chocolates after the company's annual news conference in Zurich, Switzerland November 7, 2018. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo By Paolo Laudani and Isabel Demetz (Reuters) - Barry Callebaut is planning to increase its U.S.-based production to fend off effects of the "disruptive environment" in North America and stay close to its customers, the Swiss chocolate maker's chief executive said on Thursday.
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1 month ago | 
gurutrade.com | Paolo Laudani |Isabel Demetz |Milla Nissi
April 10 (Reuters) - Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut lowered its annual sales volume guidance on Thursday due to what it called "unprecedented volatility" in cocoa bean prices, sending its shares falling almost 20%, on track for their biggest one-day drop ever.
The world's largest chocolatier, which supplies key food producers such as KitKat maker Nestle, forecast a mid-single-digit percentage decrease in its cocoa sales volume for the financial year ending on August 31.
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1 month ago | 
in.marketscreener.com | Paolo Laudani |Isabel Demetz
(Reuters) - Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut lowered its annual sales volume guidance on Thursday due to what it called "unprecedented volatility" in cocoa bean prices, sending its shares falling almost 20%, on track for their biggest one-day drop ever. The world's largest chocolatier, which supplies key food producers such as KitKat maker Nestle, forecast a mid-single-digit percentage decrease in its cocoa sales volume for the financial year ending on August 31.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Klaus Lauer |Elizaveta Gladun |Paolo Laudani
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2 months ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Canan Sevgili |Paolo Laudani |Alessandro Parodi |Alberto Chiumento |Marc Jones
IMPACT STILL BEING FELT A sculpture is seen near an empty street outside a gallery in Rosebank, Johannesburg, on April 1 2020, due to the lockdown in South Africa. Post the Covid-19 pandemic, inequality has increased, while remote work, digital payments and changes in travel patterns have endured. Five years after the World Health Organization first described the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic, its effects are still being felt on the global economy.
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2 months ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Canan Sevgili |Paolo Laudani |Alberto Chiumento |Alessandro Parodi
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. The World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Picture: REUTERS/DENIS BALIBOUSE Geneva — Five years after the World Health Organisation first described the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic, its effects are still being felt on the global economy.
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2 months ago | 
japantimes.co.jp | Canan Sevgili |Paolo Laudani |Alessandro Parodi |Alberto Chiumento
Five years after the World Health Organization first described the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic, its effects are still being felt on the global economy. COVID-19 and efforts to contain it triggered record government debt, hit labor markets and shifted consumer behavior. Inequality has increased, while remote work, digital payments and changes in travel patterns have endured. Though the immediate shock has passed, COVID-19's legacy continues to reshape global economies and markets.
