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Sainsbury eyeing overseas expansion

Company will only open 62 new stores in the UK

Only 400 Threshers stores manage to reopen

Under a third of Threshers' 1,400 stores reopen as off-licences due to shrinking interest in sector.

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Morrisons reports solid performance, increased retail prices to continue

Sales up 1.3 per cent from same period last year.

InBev reports drop in profits

World's largest brewer registered a net profit of £893m this quarter, a fall of 7 per cent from the same period last year.

3G Capital acquires Burger King

Deal closed for almost $4bn aggregate.

Whitbread profits surge 43% to £151m

Performance driven by growth of Premier Inns and Costa Coffee.

Coca-Cola Enterprises appoints BNY Mellon as exchange agent

BNY appointed in connection with recent sale of CCE's North American bottling business to The Coca-Cola Company.

Jamba Juice signs major refranchising agreement for expansion in two US markets

Jamba Juice will open 41 new stores in its largest ever refranchising program.

Monsanto obtains approvals for corn and soybean products in Latin America

Argentina and Brazil give permission for Genuity VT Triple PRO corn and Bt Roundup Ready 2 Yield soy beans to be harvested.

Expanding Ocado to hire 2000 more

Online grocer to double its capacity by end of 2012.