As Consumers Lose Their Appetite, Food Brands Fight to Keep Wall St. Happy

Packaged food companies are struggling to adjust — and profit — as tastes, waistlines and wallets change.

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Ferrero to Buy WK Kellogg in $3.1 Billion Candy-Meets-Cereal Deal

The $3.1 billion acquisition would combine Ferrero, which makes Tic Tacs and Nutella, with the producer of Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops.

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RFK Jr.’s Battle Against Food Dyes Hits a Roadblock: M&M’s

The health secretary has used peer pressure to persuade food makers to nix synthetic dyes. The candy industry is holding out, arguing American consumers like bright sweets.

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RFK Jr. Wants to Ban Chemical Dyes. Food Makers Are in No Hurry.

Companies make packaged food without synthetic dyes in other countries. But despite pressure from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the change isn’t likely to happen quickly in the United States.

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