Topic: United Kingdom
Molson Coors Brewing Co. sold fewer beers around the world in the fourth quarter, but its profit more than doubled as the company held onto price hikes it made during the recession and benefited from a one-time drop in its tax rate. Sale volumes in the brewer's ...
McDonald's Inc., the world's largest fast-food chain, said Tuesday a key sales comparison rose 2.6 percent in January, as strong overseas sales more than offset a decline in the U.S. McDonald's has generally fared well in the recession as customers turned ...
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BAE Systems Plc <BAES.L>, Europe's biggest military contractor, will pay around $450 million in fines in the United States and Britain, settling long-running corruption investigations on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, BAE, the Pentagon's fifth largest supplier by sales, will plead guilty to one charge of conspiring to ...
