Belgian chain tells Unilever it won't sell their products.Belgian Belgian having some relationship to Belgium. Belgian barge dog see schipperke. Belgian black pied cattle black, Belgian dairy cattle. Belgian blue dual-purpose cattle; blue, white or blue roan. supermarket group Delhaize has stopped buying 300 products from Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever Unilever Either of two linked companies, Unilever PLC (based in London) and Unilever NV (based in Rotterdam). They are the holding companies for more than 500 firms worldwide that manufacture and sell soaps, foods, and other products. , because they couldn't could·n't Contraction of could not. couldn't could not agree on prices. "We did not reach an agreement during our annual negotiations. The price of goods is a part of that agreement," said Unilever spokeswoman Liesbeth Rogiers. She added that Delhaize had already stopped ordering Stopped Order A market order on the NYSE that is stopped from being executed by the specialist because of a request from a member firm to obtain a better price than that available. 70 of the group's products last October October: see month. . Unilever normally supplies Delhaize with 480 different products. Delhaize, for its part, blamed Unilever for the breakdown in talks and said the move was "unprecedented." The Belgian company also said the Unilever dispute would have a strong impact on Delhaize's customers. Unilever hopes to come to an agreement with Delhaize in talks later this year so that its products can once again be delivered to stores, Rogiers said. "This illustrates that retailers like Delhaize ate using their bargaining power to negotiate the best possible prices from suppliers," Bank Degroof analyst Ivan Lathouders told clients. |
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