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Wave of change affecting the packaged foods industry with shifting consumer preference to fresher food and management shift to lean operations
03/26/2015
3G Capital Partners of Brazil puts together the Kraft Foods-Heinz merger deal based on its skills in reducing cost, with tools such as zero based budgeting to improve margins and share price performance for investors.
Grouped Articles
Kraft-Heinz Deal Shows Brazilian Buyout Firm’s Cost-Cutting Recipe
Wall Street Journal 03/26/2015
How Kraft Rolled Out the Welcome Mat for Deal-Hungry Brazilians From 3G
Wall Street Journal 03/26/2015
Budgeting Tool Used by 3G Attracts Wider Following
Wall Street Journal 03/26/2015
Meet the Father of Zero-Based Budgeting
Wall Street Journal 03/27/2015
Big Changes in Food Industry Turn Activists Upside Down
Wall Street Journal 08/07/2015
3G Capital’s Brands Lose Market Share Amid Focus on Costs
Wall Street Journal 08/10/2015
Independent investment bank Centerview Partners LLC
03/26/2015
Grouped Articles
How Kraft Rolled Out the Welcome Mat for Deal-Hungry Brazilians From 3G
Wall Street Journal 03/26/2015
Independent investment bank Lazard
03/26/2015
Grouped Articles
How Kraft Rolled Out the Welcome Mat for Deal-Hungry Brazilians From 3G
Wall Street Journal 03/26/2015
Beer makers Heineken, Carlsberg, Anheuser Busch InBev, SAB Miller and the shift to nutritional labels showing calorie count
03/26/2015
Grouped Articles
Top Beer Brands Soon to List Calories
Wall Street Journal 03/26/2015
Poor diet is a factor in one in five deaths, global disease study reveals
The Guardian 09/14/2017
John Bolton and other critics on Iran's nuclear program and the U.S. negotiations with Iran
03/26/2015
Grouped Articles
To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran
New York Times 03/26/2015
Possible Failure of Iran Nuclear Deal Divides U.S., Israel
Wall Street Journal 03/31/2015
Iran’s Supreme Leader Holds Key to Nuclear Deal
Wall Street Journal 03/31/2015
Iran’s Negotiating Triumph Over Obama and America
Wall Street Journal 04/04/2015
Negotiating with Iran: Is this a good deal?
Economist 04/05/2015
New York Times 04/05/2015
3G Capital and cost reduction strategies including 'zeo based budgeting' tool- the Heinz-Kraft merger deal
03/25/2015
Food companies are experiencing rapid change with consumers moving away from packaged foods to fresher foods, pressure on margins, and the new strategies of private equity companies focussing on lean operations. 3G Capital of Brazil is unique in its approach by using zero based budgeting tool to have managers justify budgets each year starting from scratch. This is likely to spread throughout the packaged foods industry as it grapples with change.
Grouped Articles
Kraft-Heinz Deal Shows Brazilian Buyout Firm’s Cost-Cutting Recipe
Wall Street Journal 03/26/2015
How Kraft Rolled Out the Welcome Mat for Deal-Hungry Brazilians From 3G
Wall Street Journal 03/26/2015
Budgeting Tool Used by 3G Attracts Wider Following
Wall Street Journal 03/26/2015
3G Capital, Warren Buffett’s Favorite Partner in Deals Worth Billions
New York Times 03/25/2015
Meet the Father of Zero-Based Budgeting
Wall Street Journal 03/27/2015
3G Capital’s Brands Lose Market Share Amid Focus on Costs
Wall Street Journal 08/10/2015
The U.S. Federal Reserve and 'living wills" of foreign banks
03/25/2015
Grouped Articles
U.S. Regulators Fault 3 Foreign Banks Over ‘Living Wills’
Wall Street Journal 03/25/2015
Bank resolution: Pre-empting the next crisis
Economist 04/05/2015
Washington Post 04/13/2016
Regulators Set to Reject Some Big Banks’ ‘Living Wills’
Wall Street Journal 04/13/2016
How Regulators Mess With Bankers’ Minds, and Why That’s Good
New York Times 04/14/2016
New disclosure requirements in New York for stockbrokers that they are acting in their client's interest
03/25/2015
Grouped Articles
New York City Comptroller to Call for New Fiduciary Disclosures by Brokers
Wall Street Journal 03/25/2015
Oppenheimer Ordered to Pay $3.75 Million in Broker Fraud Case
Wall Street Journal 03/27/2015
More Protection for a Nest Egg Has Some Brokers Upset
New York Times 09/18/2015
Stanford Endowment Fund performance
03/25/2015
Grouped Articles
Robert Wallace Named CEO of Stanford’s Endowment
Wall Street Journal 03/25/2015
In College Endowment Returns, Davids Beat the Goliaths
New York Times 02/25/2016
Stanford Endowment Fund management
03/25/2015
Grouped Articles
Robert Wallace Named CEO of Stanford’s Endowment
Wall Street Journal 03/25/2015
In College Endowment Returns, Davids Beat the Goliaths
New York Times 02/25/2016
The role of China's currency, the yuan, in international trade- 2014-2016
03/25/2015
Grouped Articles
Yuan Faces International Trade Headwinds
Wall Street Journal 03/25/2015
Wall Street Journal 09/01/2015
Japanese Deflation Threat Hangs Over China
Wall Street Journal 11/20/2015
IMF Lifts Chinese Yuan to Elite Lending-Reserve Currency Status
Wall Street Journal 11/30/2015
China Steps Up, but Its Currency Still Has Dues to Pay
New York Times 12/05/2015
China’s Renminbi Declines After Being Named a Global Currency, Posing Challenges
New York Times 12/18/2015
Google and the U.S. anti-trust settlement in 2012
03/25/2015
Grouped Articles
Google Makes Most of Close Ties to White House
Wall Street Journal 03/25/2015
Google's close ties to the Obama administration and the anti-trust settlement in 2012
03/25/2015
White House visitor logs show 230 visits to the White House by Google employees for meetings with high ranking officials of the Obama administration. Meetings at the time of the Google anittrust investigation in 2012 were followed by the settlement, with voluntary changes by Google and closing of the investigation, according to WSJ.
Grouped Articles
Google Makes Most of Close Ties to White House
Wall Street Journal 03/25/2015
Zero Based Budgeting as a cost reduction tool
03/26/2015
Under Zero Based Budgeting managers are required to start from scratch every year to develop a budget. This imposes a discipline and new level of frugality on managers, and makes them examine each item in the budget expenses for its purpose and what it accomplishes, forces managers to ask if it is wasteful, and whether it can be done in a more cost effective way or eliminated entirely. Experts say employees have to be trained to understand how to use the method. It was first introduced in business the 1970's, and was a method U.S. president Carter supported in federal government department budgets. It is being reintroduced in 2014-2015.
Grouped Articles
Budgeting Tool Used by 3G Attracts Wider Following
Wall Street Journal 03/26/15
Meet the Father of Zero-Based Budgeting
Wall Street Journal 03/27/15
The Modi administration and effort to introduce bank accounts for India's urban and rural poor
03/26/2015
Grouped Articles
India’s Illicit Moneylenders Aren’t Going Away
Wall Street Journal 03/26/15
India’s Push for Banks for All Leaves Some Still Outside
Wall Street Journal 04/10/15
Micromanager-in-Chief: Narendra Modi Upends How India Is Run
WSJ 03/09/17
Assembly elections 2017: Modi writ large in BJP’s sweeping victory in UP, Uttarakhand
http://www.hindustantimes.com/ 03/11/17
Narendra Modi’s Party Wins Big in Uttar Pradesh, India’s Largest State
The New York Times 03/11/17
DW.COM 03/11/17
Petrobras bonds and investors
03/26/2015
Grouped Articles
Petrobras Bonds, After Slump, Find Takers
Wall Street Journal 03/26/15
Brazil’s Petrobras Slashes Five-Year Investment Budget
Wall Street Journal 06/30/15
Steeped in Crises, Petrobras CEO Looks to Chart New Path
Wall Street Journal 08/19/15
Obesity and beer consumption
03/26/2015
Grouped Articles
Top Beer Brands Soon to List Calories
Wall Street Journal 03/26/15
Merck share price, financial performance and buybacks
03/26/2015
Grouped Articles
Merck’s Self-Medication Is Welcome
Wall Street Journal 03/26/15
BNP Paribas strategies
03/25/2015
Grouped Articles
U.S. Regulators Fault 3 Foreign Banks Over ‘Living Wills’
Wall Street Journal 03/25/15
The impact of a stronger U.S. dollar on Africa- the situation in Uganda, Zambia, Nigeria, S. Africa, and other countries with depreciating currencies
03/25/2015
The lack of $30 million in dollar funds leads to closing of a refinery and long lines in Lusaka,, Zambia. A large supermarket in Kampala, Uganda, has empty shelves for imported products as it becomes costlier to import with a depreciating currency. Flights on a Portugal run airline into Angola now cost more. Infrastructure improvements are being delayed because of the extra cost. Throughout Africa one can see the impact of an appreciating U.S. dollar.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 03/25/15
Businesses Seek Out New African Frontiers
Wall Street Journal 04/01/15
African Pensions Funds Invest in Infrastructure Projects
Wall Street Journal 05/08/15
Mining Collapse Cripples Africa’s Dreams of Prosperity
Wall Street Journal 03/04/16
IMF’s African Push Reopens Old Wounds
Wall Street Journal 03/05/16
Nigeria Grapples With Abrupt End to Rapid Growth
Wall Street Journal 04/12/16
Amazon's share price performance, investors and strategy of high capital expenditures
03/25/2015
Amazon's 5.3 billion in capital expenditures for 2014 surpasses Microsoft at $4.9 billion and IBM at $3.8 billion.
Grouped Articles
Amazon’s Attention Deficit and Spending Spree
Wall Street Journal 03/25/15
A $7 Billion Charge at Microsoft Leads to Its Largest Loss Ever
New York Times 07/21/15
Amazon’s Performance Isn’t an Open Book
Wall Street Journal 07/23/15
Amazon Posts Surprising Profit
Wall Street Journal 07/24/15
Amazon Reports Unexpected Profit, and Stock Soars
New York Times 07/23/15
Clouding a Blue-Sky View of Amazon
Wall Street Journal 07/25/15
Faces in Ukraine during the 2014-2015 political and economic crisis
03/25/2015
Grouped Articles
A Ukraine Factory That Can’t Close, and Workers Who Won’t Quit
New York Times 03/25/15
Warren Buffett and 3G Capital
03/25/2015
Grouped Articles
3G Capital, Warren Buffett’s Favorite Partner in Deals Worth Billions
New York Times 03/25/15
3G Capital’s Brands Lose Market Share Amid Focus on Costs
Wall Street Journal 08/10/15
Warren Buffett Has an Image Problem
Wall Street Journal 11/13/15
Stanford Endowment Fund strategies
03/25/2015
Grouped Articles
Robert Wallace Named CEO of Stanford’s Endowment
Wall Street Journal 03/25/15
In College Endowment Returns, Davids Beat the Goliaths
New York Times 02/25/16
Lufthansa GermanWings Flight 9525 that crashed into the French Alps in March 2015
03/25/2015
A copilot is locked out of the cockpit as the other pilot crashes the flight into the French Alps, says a French prosecutor in the probe of Flight 9525.
Grouped Articles
Germanwings Co-Pilot Named as Andreas Lubitz
Wall Street Journal 03/26/15
In German Town, Crushing Grief at Losing 16 Students and 2 Teachers in Jet Crash
New York Times 03/25/15
Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France
New York Times 03/25/15
Germanwings Co-Pilot Andreas Lubitz Appears to Have Deliberately Crashed Plane
Wall Street Journal 03/27/15
Germanwings Co-Pilot Andreas Lubitz Had Doctor’s Note for Day of Plane Crash
Wall Street Journal 03/27/15
Germanwings Co-Pilot Andreas Lubitz Concealed Depression From Airline
Wall Street Journal 03/28/15
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