Kraft forced to 'google' Cadbury in attempt to find out crucial info

By John Reynolds, marketingmagazine.co.uk, 16 March 2010, 05:37PM

LONDON - Kraft Foods' senior management were forced to rely on Google searches in a bid to ascertain key information regarding Cadbury's existing production arrangements during its hostile takeover, a Kraft executive confided to MPs today.

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