Slim Fast claims in court its exclusive supplier coerced it to pay excessive fees to manufacture its ready-to-drink products and threatened to destroy the business after receiving a contract ...

When it comes to celebrity endorsers for weight control/loss, Jenny Craig has Valerie Bertinelli and Mariah Carey. Nutrisystem has football great Terry Bradshaw, while Weight Watchers has former hoops ...

S. Daniel Abraham, a onetime traveling salesman who started a line of weight-loss products led by the popular Slim-Fast diet drinks and who later used his fortune as a major Democratic political donor ...

North America! Drop the Slim Fast and move away from the scale! Both Unilever United States Inc. and Unilever Canada Inc. are recalling several of their Slim-Fast ready-to-drink products distributed ...

Slim Fast has been around for more than 25 years and it continues to be a very popular diet. The diet centres on the use of Slim Fast food products being used as meal substitutes. The product range ...

LONDON — After running a marathon, Unilever Chief Executive Officer Paul Polman revives himself with his company’s Slim-Fast bars. Today it’s Slim-Fast that’s in need of revival. Polman, who has ...

(Reuters) - Consumer goods maker Unilever Plc said it had sold its Slim-Fast brand to Kainos Capital, a U.S.-based private equity firm focused on the food and consumer sector. The sale is part of ...

Dallas, TX, July 10, 2014 – Kainos Capital, a firm specializing in acquiring and managing food and consumer brands, today announced that it has acquired the Slim-Fast brand from Unilever. Unilever ...

Unilever PLC's U.S. subsidiary says it has recalled all canned Slim-Fast drinks because of the possibility of bacterial contamination that could cause diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. The company says ...

Nicknamed “El Ingeniero” (the engineer). His father was a Lebanese immigrant, as were his maternal grandparents. His father died when he was 13. Bought shares of the Banco Nacional de Mexico at 12. Is ...