date:Aug 25, 2012
focus.
Unilever are migrating to personal care (away from food), and emerging markets, so I dont think Britvic would fit well with Unilever either. [There is] also the same issue about lack of brand ownership.
Britvics vulnerabilities
UK MA specialist Julian Wild, a corporate finance partner at law firm Rollits, was more skeptical regarding takeover talk.
I dont always apply much credence to gossip around acquisitions, as the market is always looking for an angle or reason to buy or sell sha