Part of the money will be sourced from internal earnings, especially from food subsidiary Universal Robina.

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The company, a subsidiary of US food giant Yum Brands, said the "aggressive expansion plan" would create up to 2, 000 jobs.

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Then, in mid-2012 criminals in Michoacan carried out a series of arson attacks on trucks owned by Sabritas, a local snack food subsidiary of PepsiCo.

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Freshlink is a subsidiary of ABP Food Group, the company that owns Silvercrest Foods where the first products with equine DNA were discovered in January.

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"There are a lot of products out there that use tricky wording so you believe it's whole grain when it's not, " says Cynthia Harriman, director of food and nutrition strategies at the Whole Grains Council, a subsidiary of the nonprofit food advocacy group Oldways Preservation Trust.

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The plan, which is supported by Morgans's board, calls for transferring to Yucaipa the Delano South Beach hotel and the company's Light Group food and beverage subsidiary.

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The issue came into sharp relief in 2011, when China's food-safety inspectors discovered in pork products from a Shuanghui subsidiary the chemical clenbuterol, which speeds muscle growth in pigs but can cause headache, nausea and an irregular heartbeat when consumed by humans.

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Italy is famous for food as well as luxury: in January Princes, a British subsidiary of Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation, said it would buy 51% of a giant tomato-processing business in southern Italy.

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The burger chain said that while it was not a food safety issue, they were replacing all products from Silvercrest, which is a subsidiary of ABP, in the UK and Ireland with items from another supplier.

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