Deerfield Business
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New Heat Tracker app turns up the heat at local sitesFeb 09, 2011 11:00 pm - If you’re eager to know if a restaurant, bar or nightclub is crowded and who’s there, you’re likely using any number of check-in, location-based social networking apps. ...
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Kraft says more price increases aheadFeb 09, 2011 10:00 pm - PORTLAND, Ore. — Kraft Foods Inc., like many of its peers, is feeling some pricing pressure. The company reported Thursday that price increases it made to cope with hig...
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Allstate drops as profit falls on catastrophe lossesFeb 09, 2011 10:00 pm - Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, fell the most since October after fourth-quarter results missed analysts' estimates on losses tie...
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What’s on our minds? PlentyFeb 08, 2011 11:00 pm - Ask local business owners what’s on their minds and you’ll get some interesting feedback — from financing to ethanol, beef shortages to Australia’s typhoon, and — of cou...
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Wheeling company gets tax break to expandFeb 08, 2011 11:00 pm - Wheeling officials have backed giving a company a tax break that will allow them to build an addition onto their building on Hintz Road. Engis Corp., which manufactures ...
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DuPont Fabros readies Elk Grove site for more data center leasesFeb 08, 2011 10:00 pm - Washington, D.C.-based DuPont Fabros Technology plans to invest about $180 million to build out the rest of the former Enesco building in Elk Grove Village and lease it ...
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Boeing's 787 supply chain 'a bridge too far,' CEO saysFeb 08, 2011 10:00 pm - Boeing Co. may have extended the delayed 787 Dreamliner's supply chain too far and delegated too much engineering to other companies, Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerne...
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Playboy increases takeover loan to $185 millionFeb 08, 2011 10:00 pm - Playboy Enterprises Inc., publisher of the namesake men's magazine, increased the size of the term loan it's seeking to fund its takeover by founder Hugh M. Hefner to $1...
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Allstate's net income falls on catastrophe lossesFeb 08, 2011 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — Auto and home insurer Allstate said Wednesday its net income fell 43 percent in the fourth quarter as an Arizona hailstorm in October caused its catastrophe l...
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Zion plant turns filth into fuelFeb 08, 2011 10:00 pm - When North Shore Sanitary District leaders looked for a better way to dispose of treated sludge and waste from sanitary sewage plants, they found it in Germany. It was ...