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Nestle sells ice-cream business in US for $4bn

Bloomberg Nestle SA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Schneider keeps cutting the sugar and fat. The question is what he’ll add to spur growth at the world’s biggest food company. In the CEO’s second-biggest disposal, the Swiss company sold its US ice cream business to a joint venture with private equity firm PAI Partners for $4 billion. That adds the ...

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On Amazon, T-shirts with slogans expose trademark feud

Bloomberg A growing number of sellers on Amazon.com Inc’s platform are finding how painful it can be when Amazon’s absolute power over their small businesses meets a bureaucratic US government system not built for the 21st century. The issue involves trademarks filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), a federal agency meant to ensure brands big and small ...

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India’s parliament approves anti-Muslim citizenship bill

Bloomberg India’s Parliament approved a controversial bill that prevents illegal Muslim migrants from neighbouring countries from receiving citizenship after hours of heated debate among lawmakers and protests in some parts of the country. The bill, which offers amnesty to non-Muslim illegal migrants from three neighbouring countries, was approved in the upper house of Parliament on Wednesday after it secured more ...

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