10 May

SOS Cuetara to issue 200 mln euros of shares to plug hole

Spain’s SOS Cuetara (SOS.MC) said on Sunday it would issue 200 million euros of new shares to plug a hole in its accounts after top executives were discovered siphoning off funds to buy shares in the olive oil bottler.
SOS said it was restating 2008 results and booking a loss after it emerged that chairman [...]

02 May

SOS Cuetara’s top execs fired, shares suspended

by Tracy Rucinski & Rodrigo de Miguel,

Spain’s SOS Cuetara (SOS.MC), the world’s biggest olive oil bottler, said on Thursday it had fired its two top executives after discovering last month they had used company funds to buy SOS shares.
“SOS Group’s board, which met today, has fired Jesus and Jaime Salazar Bello as chairman and deputy [...]

09 Apr

SOS Cuetara to sell Dante olive oil brand for EUR34m

Food group SOS Cuetara has agreed to sell its olive oil brand Dante and the other brands of its Minerva Oli unit to Italian sector player Mataluni for some EUR34m (USD45.6m).
The transaction, scheduled for completion in July, is in line with SOS Cuetara’s disinvestment programme.
Dante has annual sales of some 10 million litres and holds [...]

03 Apr

SOS Cuetara to sell Dante Olive Oil and Minerva Oli to Mataluni

Spanish food group SOS Cuetara has agreed to sell its olive oil brand Dante and the other brands of its Minerva Oli unit to Italian sector player Mataluni for some EUR34m (US$45.6m)
The transaction, scheduled for completion in July, is in line with SOS Cuetara’s disinvestment programme.
Dante has annual sales of some 10 million liters and [...]

05 Mar

sos cuetara targets 150 million eur from disposals

Spanish food company SOS Cuetara (SOS.MC) expects to make between 100 million and 150 million euros (($125.8-$188.8 million) from the sale of further non-core assets, a company official said on Thursday.
SOS is in the process of selling non-core businesses such as its olive oil, vinegar and sauce brands as part of efforts to pay off [...]

16 Sep

Spanish Conquest Squeezes Italian Olive Oil

By Davide Berretta,
Over the past five years, Italy’s biggest olive-oil brands have fallen steadily into Spanish hands. SOS Cuétara SA’s July purchase of Bertolli, one of the world’s best-known olive-oil labels, gave the Spanish food company control of half the Italian market and made it the world’s undisputed leader in olive-oil sales.
The Spanish conquest has [...]

04 Jun

SOS eyes ‘many’ olive oil companies; admits interest in Unilever’s Bertolli

SOS Cuetara SA is studying the acquisition of ‘many’ olive oil companies and has admitted its interest in international food manufacturer Unilever Plc.’s Italian olive oil brand Bertolli, according to SOS chairman Jesus Salazar.
Speaking to Thomson Financial News on the sidelines of a small-midcaps forum, Salazar said that it is studying ‘many companies’, and that [...]

22 Apr

Inauguration par Sa Majesté le Roi du Maroc d’une oliveraie à technologie espagnole

Le 3 Avril 2008, Sa Majesté le Roi Mohammed VI a procédé à l’inauguration d’une plantation mécanisée d’oliviers (orientée par GPS) de variétés espagnoles (Arbequina et Arbossana) et grecques (Koroneiki) appartenant à la Société AGRO HEALTH et située dans la région marocaine de Beni-Mellal.
Cette plantation a été conçue et conduite techniquement par la Société espagnole [...]

11 Dec

Spain:SOS Cuetara sees record 1.6 bln tonnes olive oil production in 2007-2008

SOS Cuetara SA said it is targeting a record 1.6 bln tonnes in olive oil production in 2007-2008, reiterating comments made by chairman Jesus Salazar in a recent interview with Thomson Financial News.
In a presentation, SOS Cuetara said it expects olive oil prices to remain stable and competitive in the 2007-2008 season, thanks to an [...]

16 Nov

Spain: Olive oil buoys SOS Cuetara

Healthier margins from olive oil have driven a rise in nine-month profits at Spanish food firm SOS Cuetara.
Net income rose 10.8% to EUR13.5m (US$19.7m) in the nine months to the end of September.
Turnover, however, dipped 3.2% to EUR1.02bn.
In June, a company insider told just-food that SOS Cuetara was searching for a new acquisition in the [...]

02 Jul

SOS Cuetara sees record olive oil harvest in 2007-2008

Sos Cuetara SA expects a record olive oil harvest in 2007-2008, against a medium-term backdrop which does not anticipate any surprise negative factors weighing on earnings, chairman Jesus Salazar said.
In an interview with Thomson Financial News, Salazar said: Next year’s (olive oil) harvest is very, very good It’ll probably be a record. In the medium [...]