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🟡 Semafor Business: Thought for food
In this edition, two messy breakups at Kraft Heinz and Nestlé CEO, and Fed Board nominee Stephen Miran vows to keep it clean.
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e.l.f. Beauty’s CEO on diversity, tariffs, and valuing Hailey Bieber
Tarang Amin runs a “different kind of company” but faces challenges familiar to other executives.
Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Alice Walton’s prescription for a ‘broken’ US health system
The world’s richest woman is partnering with a ‘whole-health’ focused oncologist to rethink medical education
Stephen Ironside, Iron Lotus Creative
Trump’s firing of BLS chief clouds confidence in jobs numbers
The August numbers, released Friday, will be the first since the president fired the head of the agency that collects the data.
Brian Snyder/File Photo/Reuters
London’s transplants find US investors a tough crowd
Some of London’s companies have moved or considered moving their stock listings to New York, but are finding it difficult to deal with investors in the US.
Yann Tessier/Reuters
Nestlé’s CFO acknowledges board waited to launch deeper CEO probe
Chair Paul Bulcke now faces investor pressure over whether he slow-walked an investigation while the company’s stock and business were performing well.
Denis Balibouse/Reuters
Google can keep Chrome, but must share search data, judge rules
The landmark ruling could have reshaped how the internet functions by mandating Google give up a core part of its business, but Tuesday’s decision fell short of that.
Steve Marcus/Reuters
Elliott’s $4B bet on Pepsi adds to corporate drama
The outlook for the food industry is murkier than ever, feeling the impact of tariffs, shifting tastes, and the uptake of GLP-1 drugs.
Corporate prudishness survives the anti-woke retreat
Intolerance of CEOs sleeping with their subordinates has survived boardrooms’ rightward lurch, even as websites are scrubbed of diversity language and environmental targets quietly languish.
Can investors make The New York Times into the Netflix of news?
Fivespan Partners has taken a stake in the Grey Lady.
Is FCC’s Carr the most powerful regulator in Washington?
FCC Chair Brendan Carr has proven facile at navigating both old and new media, most recently spurring a giant spectrum-license deal by telling EchoStar to use his airwaves or lose them.
France’s government nears collapse for the second time this year
Paris’ borrowing costs spiked as the Prime Minister bet the house on a confidence vote over austerity plans to reduce government borrowing.
AT&T won the first battle for spectrum. Elon Musk and Amazon could be next.
AT&T’s deal to buy $23 billion worth of spectrum licensing from Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar this week was a reminder that bandwidth is a limited commodity.
Fed Governor Lisa Cook sues to prevent Trump from firing her
The suit tees up a historic legal battle over President Donald Trump’s efforts to control the central bank.
US GDP growth jumps higher than expected in second estimate
The surge in growth comes off the back of a dip earlier this year, ahead of Trump’s tariff deadline.
New US tariffs on India come into effect
The 25% levy is intended as punishment for India’s purchases of Russian oil, and sits atop an existing 25% duty.
Musk’s Starlink, T-Mobile eye EchoStar’s spectrum after AT&T deal
AT&T scooped up the lion’s share of EchoStar’s licenses for $23 billion Tuesday, but Charlie Ergen still has valuable airwaves to bargain with.
FCC Chair Carr takes his Comcast fight to the ballpark
Brendan Carr backed the Yankees’ YES Network in its carriage dispute with Comcast, and threw the first pitch at Yankee Stadium as the standoff deepens.
An Intel stake is bad for shareholders
The government wants to take more stakes in other companies, potentially changing how boards think about their relationship with shareholders.