Bolingbrook Business
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Best Buy buys U.K. firm for $2.1 billionMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS -- Consumer electronics chain Best Buy Co. Inc. is establishing a foothold in the European market with a $2.1 billion investment in the continent's largest c...
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Resources can help solve problemsMay 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Finding good small business advice can be difficult -- which is why this week's column is a sharing list of advisers I have found who understand smaller businesses. Ther...
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Business leaders form new Naperville bankMay 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Eighteen Naperville business leaders have partnered to establish a new community bank, possibly by next year. The group, led by Scott Wehrli, secretary-treasurer of DuKa...
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BP signs lease, will move area workersMay 06, 2008 11:00 pm - BP America Inc., a subsidiary of London-based BP PLC, said Tuesday it plans to move about 1,000 workers from its DuPage County campus to downtown Chicago sometime this s...
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Motorola investors express frustrationMay 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Last year, billionaire investor Carl Icahn was in Chicago and lost his bid for a seat on the Motorola Inc. board. His demands were spurned. On Monday, Motorola ushered i...
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Sara Lee 3Q profit rises on price increases, weaker dollarMay 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Sara Lee Corp. posted an 82 percent increase Tuesday in third-quarter earnings on higher sales prices and the weak dollar, but still-soaring commodity prices limited the...
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Career coach says employees must shift focus from job satisfactionMay 05, 2008 11:00 pm - A career coach from Lincolnshire believes there is hope in the workplace despite uncertain economies and job markets. A big part of the equation comes from within. Jeffr...
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Staging, redesign firm relies on Web siteMay 03, 2008 11:00 pm - When GraceAnn Simoni started her interior redesign and home staging business in 2001, her Web site was the only calling card she had on the Internet. It still is. "There...
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OfficeMax offers 'green' productsMay 01, 2008 11:00 pm - NAPERVILLE -- OfficeMax Inc., an office products and services retailer, said Thursday it partnered with TerraCycle Inc., an eco-capitalist company, to introduce a new li...
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Aon grows profit on consulting, sale of unitsMay 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Aon Corp. said Thursday its first-quarter profit rose 2 percent on strong growth in its consulting business. The Chicago-based company's net income rose to $218 million,...