COMPANIES

Warren Buffett and 3G's Jorge Paulo Lemann are joining hands for the richest deal in the food industry.

Exclusive: Guto Bebb tells IBTimes UK about interest rate swap scandal and bank intimidation.

A potential deal will enable Vodafone to sell combinations of mobile, fixed-line and TV services in Europe.

ING to slash 1,400 jobs in the Netherlands and 1,000 in Belgium as part of separate restructurings in these countries.

Republic follows Jessops, HMV and Blockbuster as the latest high street casualty.

The US authorities give nod for the CNOOC-Nexen deal, following a long assessment.

The deal pre-pones GE's planned exit from entertainment business by mid-2014.

Job losses come just days before two planned strikes by Spanish unions to protest plans by CEO Willie Walsh to cut jobs at the loss-making Spanish unit of British Airways merger

UK regulator slaps UBS with a fine for a fund that exposed nearly 2,000 investors to financial instruments that led to the credit crisis

Antony Jenkins tells Bloomberg Television that a 'fundamentally different environment' for banks demands big changes in costs and capital - but payoff may not come until 2015

World’s biggest security firm originally estimate a loss of £50m after failing to provide 10,400 guards for Olympic Games

Britain's second biggest lender plans 3,700 job cuts as CEO Antony Jenkins prepares major transformation of bank culture

CEO Stephen Hester and chairman Philip Hampton to face bank standards commission.

French automaker Renault has upgraded its popular-selling Duster SUV with a new multimedia system called 'Media NAV'.

Whitehall warns that going it alone means Scotland would have to apply separately for EU membership.

EADS unit GPT Special Management Systems is accused of bribing Saudi officials between 2007 and 2010.

Barclays to close tax unit SCM, while reports say CEO Antony Jenkins will axe 2000 jobs and £2bn of costs

AMR and US Airways boards delay meeting to finalise a merger deal due to unresolved issues.

The UK's best-known technology entrepreneur is making a comeback after raising a £6.3 million war chest to fast-track the development of some of the country's most promising companies.

Eric Schmidt will be unwinding 3.2 million shares of Class A common stock.

Boeing informs airline companies that 787 deliveries could be delayed as regulator investigations continue.

Southeastern Asset Management maintains that Michael Dell's proposal "grossly undervalues the company".

Europe's second-biggest carmaker losing €7m a day and burning €200m in cash each month.

CEO Michael Spencer says no evidence of fake trades for brokers in bid to distance itself from Libor scandal.

Philip Hampton says rate manipulators should be jailed despite bank still employing six Libor fixing traders.

TUI Travel reports strong growth in holiday travel demands from the UK and Nordic countries.

Disastrous 'Project Santorini' at world's oldest bank could embarrass ECB president Mario Draghi.

Leader of telecom equipment maker to leave company after group posts €1.4bn loss for 2012.

Southern European markets see 11.9 percent service revenue slump but solid growth in emerging markets should protect the bottom line.