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Starbucks-Kraft spat brewing since January

A feud between Starbucks Corp. and Kraft Foods Inc. over supermarket coffee sales has been brewing since at least January — far longer than Kraft has acknowledged — according to email exchanges between their top executives provided by Starbucks.

The rift became public last month, when the Seattle coffee company said it wanted to end its 12-year-old distribution deal with Kraft, which sells bags of Starbucks coffee in supermarkets and other stores. Get the full story »

Former CBOT boss named president of Sun Holdings

Bernard Dan, the former head of the Chicago Board of Trade and brokerage company MF Global Holdings, has joined the proprietary trading firm Sun Holdings LLC as president.

The move sees Dan, a major figure in listed derivatives markets, rejoin the financial services industry eight months after departing MF Global for personal reasons. Get the full story »