Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) -- L’Oreal SA, the world’s largest cosmetics maker, said it’s confident of achieving sales and earnings growth in 2012 after reporting a 7.7 percent increase in 2011 operating profit, beating analysts’ estimates. Operating income clim

Andrew Wood has stepped down from the board of biotech firm Oxford Biomedica, where he was chief financial officer. Tim Watts has been appointed to the board as chief financial officer and company secretary, with Mr Wood – who has worked for the firm sin

TWO food pubs in west Cornwall have been named among the UK's top food pubs. The Gurnard's Head, near Zennor, run by Charles Inkin, Edmund Inkin and Andrew Wood, has been acclaimed for the quality of its food, as has The Victoria Inn, Perranuthnoe, which

SEATTLE, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Malfunkshun, a Seattle band often cited as one of the "founding fathers" of the grunge music scene that exploded in the 90's, has released their newest single "Rains of May" off their original collection of songs tit

The Anglo-Dutch giant’s FY2011 results to 31 December. Profits of €4.25bn were flat from the previous year. Margins were lower but revenues grew 5% to €46.5bn. Darren Shirley, analyst with Shore Capital, in a note on the results, said the food and person

Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Unilever, the world’s second-largest consumer-goods maker, reported the weakest volume growth in almost three years as higher prices deterred consumers, and said it expects “gloomy” economic conditions to persist this year. The quan