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Reckitt merger reports doubted
Speculation that the household cleaning products group could be close to a merger with Colgate-Palmolive is greeted with scepticism by analysts
Lex: Luxury goods
Recovering economies, asset prices and bonuses are beginning to breathe life back into the market for expensive trinkets
Sony hopes SOS offering will be a saviour
The Sony Online Service is the electronic company’s attempt to make Sony televisions and devices stand apart from the competition by delivering movies, games and music to them
Europe’s appliance industry makes the grade
Appliance makers have won changes to a new European energy efficiency labelling scheme after they warned that an earlier rescaling plan could have cost them more than €1.5bn ($2.2bn, £1.4bn) in lost sales
Burberry retrenches via social network
Burberry is hoping for a boost to sales of trenchcoats after it launched its social networking site based round the distinctive garment
Toshiba plants seeds of a low-carbon future
The chipmaker’s new pilot facility in Oomuta shows its commitment to green energy technology
Tight-knit UK future John Smedley
The luxury knitwear company,is pulling all production back to the UK
Dell enters smartphone market
It will manufacture the devices for distribution and use Google’s Android operating system
Jimmy Choo to step smartly into H&M
Hordes of fashion enthusiasts are set to converge on the 200 H&M stores around the world where the limited-edition Jimmy Choo collection will be stocked
Ugly success
The appearance of mobile internet browsing is improving but what is lacking is a reason to pay attention to ads on the move
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Colgate-Reckitt: A kitchen colossus that makes sense
The market frisson about a potential merger between the two companies has a certain logic
Good to grow: Why Bolland is right choice for M&S
The simultaneous resolution of succession questions at both Marks and Spencer and ITV is like being blitzed by retailers’ pre-Christmas advertising campaigns
LEX
The sweet hereafter
News that Hershey of the US and Italy’s Ferrero are thinking of putting in bids for Cadbury hardly constitutes a Kinder Surprise
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