NEW YORK (AP) -- Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO ) says it will make lower-calorie options and clear calorie labeling more widely available around the world, intensifying a push against critics who say its drinks pack on the pounds.
The Atlanta-based company, which also makes Sprite, Fanta, and Minute Maid, already offers diet drinks in most markets. But there's no consistency in their availability, particularly in emerging markets such as China and India.
Coca-Cola also said Wednesday that it would support programs that encourage physical activity and no longer market to kids younger than 12. The company did not say in which countries it currently markets to children.
With sugary drinks often blamed as a culprit for making people fat, Coca-Cola has been more aggressive in trying to convince customers its products can be part of a healthy lifestyle. Earlier this year, the company aired its first TV ad addressing the matter in the U.S. and has since been rolling out the spot to other countries.
5 Best Industrial Disributor Stocks To Own For 2014: Cementir(CEMI.MI)
Cementir Holding SpA, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes cement, aggregates, and concrete products worldwide. The company offers various grey cement products, including traditional Portland cement, composite Portland cement, blast furnace cement, pozzolanic cement, and composite cement. It also provides white Portland cement that is used in dry white and colored mixtures as a binder in various types of mortar; and used in concrete for panels, balconies, cornices, ornaments, paving stones and flags, sculptures, and swimming pools, as well as used to produce road signs, tunnel linings and ramps, kerbs, road-markings, and medium barriers. In addition, the company offers ready-mix concrete; and pre-cast concrete products that are used in civil engineering projects and transport industries. Further, it extracts and distributes aggregates, such as sand, gravel, or crushed stones used as structural construction components. The company was incorporated in 1947 and is headquartered in Rome, Italy.
5 Best Industrial Disributor Stocks To Own For 2014: First Financial Bankshares Inc.(FFIN)
First Financial Bankshares, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides commercial banking products and services primarily in Texas. It offers commercial banking services, which include accepting and holding checking, savings, and time deposits, as well as automated teller machines, drive-in and night deposit services, safe deposit facilities, remote deposit capture services, Internet banking, transmitting funds, and other commercial banking services. The company also provides commercial, financial, agricultural, real estate construction, real estate mortgage, and consumer loans to businesses, professionals, individuals, and farm and ranch operations. In addition, it involves in the administration of various types of retirement and employee benefit accounts, which include 401(k) profit sharing plans and IRAs; and offers personal trust services that comprise the administration of estates, testamentary trusts, revocable and irrevocable trusts, and agency accounts. Further, the company offers securities brokerage services. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 48 financial centers in Texas, including 10 locations in Abilene, 2 locations in Cleburne, 3 locations in Stephenville, 3 locations in Granbury, 2 locations in San Angelo, and 3 locations in Weatherford, as well as 1 location each in Mineral Wells, Hereford, Sweetwater, Eastland, Ranger, Rising Star, Southlake, Aledo, Willow Park, Brock, Alvarado, Burleson, Keller, Trophy Club, Boyd, Bridgeport, Decatur, Roby, Trent, Merkel, Clyde, Moran, Albany, Midlothian, and Glen Rose. The company was founded in 1956 and is based in Abilene, Texas.
Best Growth Companies To Own In Right Now: Flaherty & Crumrine/Claymore Preferred Securities Income Fd In (FFC)
Flaherty & Crumrine/Claymore Preferred Securities Income Fund Inc. is a closed-ended fixed income mutual fund launched and managed by Flaherty & Crumrine Incorporated. It invests in the fixed income markets of the United States. The fund employs quantitative analysis to create its portfolios. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Merrill Lynch 8% Capped DRD Preferred Stock Index, Merrill Lynch Hybrid Preferred Securities Index, and Merrill Lynch Adjustable Preferred Stock 7% Constrained Index. Flaherty & Crumrine/Claymore Preferred Securities Income Fund Inc. was formed on May 23, 2002 and is domiciled in the United States.
5 Best Industrial Disributor Stocks To Own For 2014: Diamond Foods Inc.(DMND)
Diamond Foods, Inc., a packaged food company, engages in processing, marketing, and distributing snack products, as well as culinary, in-shell, and ingredient nuts. Its snack products include glazed nuts, roasted and mixed nuts, breakfast trail mix products, microwave popcorn products, and potato and tortilla chips. The company?s culinary nuts comprise shelled nuts, pegboard nuts, and harvest reserve premium nuts. Its in-shell nuts consist of uncracked nuts and mixed nuts; and ingredient/food service products include shelled and processed nuts, and custom-processed nuts. The company offers its products under the Emerald, Pop Secret, Kettle, and Diamond of California brand names. It markets its culinary nuts to individuals, who prepare meals or baked goods at home; and ingredient and food service nuts to food processors, restaurants, bakeries, and food service companies and their suppliers. Diamond Foods, Inc. sells its products directly to retailers, such as national groce ry stores, club stores, mass merchandisers, and drug store chains; and indirectly through wholesale distributors, who serve independent and small regional retail grocery store chains and convenience stores. The company offers its products in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Canada, South Korea, Turkey, and Japan. Diamond Foods, Inc. was founded in 1912 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Louis Navellier]
With 99-year old nut maker Diamond Foods Inc. (NASDAQ:DMND), “once you pop, the fun don’t stop.” If that phrase had you thinking more about potato crisps than holiday nuts, you’re not imagining things — that has been the long-running slogan of the Pringles potato crisp brand. But with Diamond Foods slated to acquire the Pringles chip business, becoming the second-largest global snacks company, the fun isn’t going to stop. Earlier this month, Diamond Foods received final regulatory approval to buy Pringles from Procter & Gamble for $2.35 billion, adding to Diamond’s other acquisitions of Pop Secret popcorn and Kettle Brand chips. As Diamond Foods continues to diversify, its reliance on major customers is shrinking, giving it better leverage. Nonetheless, even though the company is expanding, Diamond is making sure that its original product — assorted nuts — still is top quality.
5 Best Industrial Disributor Stocks To Own For 2014: Euromoney Pub(ERM.L)
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, a business-to-business media group, provides business information on the finance, law, energy, metals, transport, and commodities sectors in the United Kingdom, North America, and internationally. Its Financial Publishing division offers various titles covering the international capital markets, as well as specialist financial titles, including magazines, newsletters, journals, surveys and research, directories, and books under Euromoney, Institutional Investor, Euroweek, Latin Finance, Asiamoney, Global Investor, Project Finance, Futures and Options World, EuroHedge, InvestHedge, AsiaHedge, and AR brands. The company?s Training division provides public and in-house banking, finance, and legal courses under the Euromoney and DC Gardner brands, as well as various courses for the audit and information security market. Its Business Publishing division produces specialist magazines and other publications covering the metals and mining, le gal, telecoms, and energy sectors under Metal Bulletin, American Metal Market, International Financial Law Review, International Tax Review, Managing Intellectual Property, Capacity, Petroleum Economist, World Oil, and Hydrocarbon Processing brands. The company?s Conferences and Seminars division runs sponsored conferences and seminars for the international financial markets under the Euromoney, Institutional Investor, Metal Bulletin, and IMN brands. Its Research and Data division offer subscription-based research and data services for financial markets; news and data on global emerging markets; time-series macro-economic data for emerging markets; and global capital market databases. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in London, the United Kingdom. Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC is a subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust plc.
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