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Cadbury Schweppes' two-pronged portfolio of candy and soft drinks wasn't too far off strategically from the soft-drink and snack-food approach that has served PepsiCo so well. The difference is that Pepsi has Pepsi, not Dr Pepper, as a top brand and an organization that can execute...
Under relentless pressure from shareholders like agitator Nelson Peltz to sell its beverage business--yet unable to find a buyer given the collapse of the credit markets--Cadbury spun off its soft-drinks unit as the Dr Pepper Snapple Group earlier this year, leaving it once again a stand-alone...
Despite its scale, Cadbury has been hobbled by decisions made years, even decades ago that have hampered its ability to compete globally. For instance, Cadbury doesn't control its own chocolate brand in the U.S., having sold those rights to Hershey in 1988 under a 25-year agreement that only...
Now that the two companies are separated, Wall Street buzz naturally revolves around their merging with or buying other companies or being sold themselves, especially in the wake of the Mars-Wrigley deal. "We believe [the spin-off] makes Cadbury a more attractive potential acquisition target, especially for Kraft," says...
The sheer ubiquity of carbon is what makes eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions so difficult. But the surprising truth, Roston writes, is that we have actually been decarbonizing over time. Humanity's main fuel for eons was wood, which has a carbon-to-hydrogen ratio of 10 to 1 when burned...