Ethical
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Fyffes gets over €180m equity injection from Japanese parent
- Agribusiness & Food
- June 13, 2019, 03:45
Tropical fruits group Fyffes has received an almost €183 million equity injection from its Japanese owner Sumitomo to replace parental borrowings and (...)
![John Thero: “We’re taking the approach of make it [Vascepa] affordable, and hopefully we can help millions of patients and make some money along the way” John Thero: “We’re taking the approach of make it [Vascepa] affordable, and hopefully we can help millions of patients and make some money along the way”](/polopoly_fs/1.3651727.1538671571!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg)
Amarin – an overnight success 10 years in the making
- Health & Pharma
- October 5, 2018, 05:50
Stunning they called it. And it was, as Irish-American pharma group Amarin announced the results of a key clinical trial for its cholesterol drug last(...)

Fyffes gets five more weeks from ethics body to fix Honduras dispute
- Agribusiness & Food
- August 7, 2017, 06:03
Fyffes, the Dublin-based tropical fruits company taken over in February by a Japanese group, has been given until next month to resolve a dispute over(...)

Putting humans centre stage in the AI race
- Technology
- July 20, 2017, 05:58
Microsoft is out to prove that it is not just “an AI-first company” but an “AI-first company with a heart and a conscience”. Following on from the cre(...)

Fyffes melon workers’ dispute escalates as takeover completes
- Health & Pharma
- February 16, 2017, 06:00
Fyffes is preparing to answer allegations of worker exploitation at its Central American operations just as its €751 million takeover by a Japanese gr(...)

Investor miserliness over Fyffes deal is bananas
- Agribusiness & Food
- January 17, 2017, 06:32
Talk about trying to squeeze the last cent out of a deal. Fyffes’ stock price on the last day of trading in 2016 peeped one cent above a €2.25-a-sha(...)

Ethical shopping on the cheap
- Consumer
- March 18, 2013, 06:00
If you throw a bunch of Fairtrade bananas in your shopping trolley, can you save the world? Sadly, being a truly ethical shopper – concerned fo(...)