CHINA/UK: Bright Food's bid to buy United Biscuits "nears collapse"
By just-food.com | 27 October 2010
Talks to sell UK-based snack group United Biscuits to China's Bright Food are "effectively dead", the Wall Street Journal has reported.
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Talks to sell UK-based snack group United Biscuits to China's Bright Food are "effectively dead", the Wall Street Journal has reported.
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