The world’s biggest beverage company Coca-Cola Co. wants to expand its businesses in the fast-growing Chinese beverage market Wednesday with a $2.5 billion bid in cash for major juice maker China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd. Huiyuan is China’s top maker of pure fruit juices and nectars with around 31 production facilities. It shares, down over 50% current year and jumped to HK$11.10 early Wednesday.

According to the deal, Coca-Cola’s totally-owned subsidiary Atlantic Industries would buy the Chinese company’s shares for 12.20 Hong Kong dollars or $1.56 each. The share is about triple their most recent closing price, HK$4.14.Both companies said in a joint statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange. Moreover Coca-Cola has offered to pay for every outstanding convertible bonds and options, bringing the entire quantity of the agreement to as much as $19.6 billion Hong Kong Dollars (roughly $2.51 billion). That would worth the Beijing-based juice manufacturer at about HK$17.9 billion ($2.3 billion).

Dealogic, a research firm, ensured that it is the largest-ever deal in China’s food and beverage industry. If the deal will be approved by regulators, the achievement would mark Coca-Cola’s largest in China since it started operating in the country in the year of 1979 and boost its share in the Chinese beverage market.

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In this day and age, people are looking for small car. Most of the citizen prefer small car for their own purposes. Therefore, most of the auto makers have begun their operation for small cars. Recently Ford, the third largest automaker in the world, began manufacture of the new Fiesta. It is a small car destined and planed for overall sales and destined to serve as an outline and blueprint for future manufactured product development.

During the second quarter of the current fiscal year Ford, facing huge losses of $8.7 billion, as a result the company is looking to shrink both its manufacturing and development expenses for global operations. On the other hand the use of a worldwide platform helps bring down manufacturer, and development expenses along with purchasing expenditure at the same time as still allowing for the flexibility of varied interior and exterior treatments. The expectation of Ford manufacturing a million cars per year based on the new Fiesta platform to fulfill the increasing small car demand. The Fiesta was first introduced in the year of 1976 and that time it was sold well in Europe for the ensuing three decades in automobile markets and at this time it is being produced at the company’s facility in Cologne in Germany and roughly $718.4 million have gone into retooling the operation in Cologne with an estimated output of 148,000 unit Fiestas in this current year. At the time of full production the plant will turn out 1,900 Fiestas and fusions over three shifts per day. Experts think the new Fiesta will be vital to Ford’s automobile sales in North America when the company struggles with other top competitor companies such as Toyota Yaris, Nissan Versa and Honda Fit.

Given the importance in the high prices of gasoline and increasing environmental concerns, nowadays passenger small cars are projected to be in higher demand in the coming months. And that’s why all of the major auto manufacturers are scrambling to meet the rapid shift in customer preference. Now wait to see in coming months how can Ford make up its losses and make profit by its new one.

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General Motors Corporation (GM) is cracking down on a good number of employees, widows and retirees who it says have inappropriately extended worker discounts to non-relatives and GM has already declared the practices have prices the automaker over $450,000.

Attorneys said GM has filed minimum three lawsuits against corporation affiliates for giving discounts to non-relatives and the lawsuits filed by the corporation say company audits discovered the discounts had saved customers someplace from $1,000 to roughly $9,000 depending on the automobiles sticker value. Though the Detroit News reports it is unclear how many lawsuits have been filed by the company.

On the other hand the newspapers said on Saturday, 30 August that a number of the lawsuits were filed after this month’s notice by the company that it is temporarily extending such discounts to every single person on about all of its 2008 and a quantity of of its 2009 models.

One of the GM officials, Tom Wilkinson says the timing of the lawsuits and the extended discounts was coincidental. He adds that at the same time such uses of worker discounts might have been overlooked in the earlier period, GM now is strictly watching its costs.

GM, based in Detroit, already lost $15.5 billion in the second quarter of current fiscal year so company try to recover its losses and find out the reason of its losses. The company hopes that their current decision may help to protect its losses.

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