Fortune Brands News

A six-year slide in new U.S. home construction appears to be at an end, with a modest turnaround in the offing this year.

Beam Inc has posted a good start to the year, with sales and profits performing strongly in the first three months of 2011.

Craig Omtvedt, a speaker at the marcus evans CFO Summit XXIV Spring 2012, on driving business growth by being commercially in sync.

Fortune Brands Inc, a leading consumer brands company, yesterday said it plans to split into two companies, and upon completion of the formalities, both will be traded as two independent companies on the New York Stock Exchange.

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