Deerfield Business
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Kraft Foods to lay off 400 workers in U.S., CanadaOct 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Kraft Foods Inc. will lay off 400 people in North America by the end of the year, the company told its employees Monday. The Northfield-based corporation employs 41,000 ...
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Walgreens September sales increase 10 percentOct 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Deerfield-based Walgreens had September sales of $4,854,000,000, an increase of 10 percent from $4,410,987,000 for the same month in 2007. Sales in comparable stores, th...
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Sales boost Walgreen fiscal 4th-quarter profitSep 28, 2008 11:00 pm - DEERFIELD -- Walgreen Co. said Monday higher sales and cost-cutting boosted its fiscal fourth-quarter profit 12 percent amid a difficult economic environment. Profit for...
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Cash registers, fireworks ring in new Arboretum mall in South BarringtonSep 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Despite constant talk of economic woes and financial bailouts, shoppers at Friday's grand opening of the Arboretum of South Barrington have faith the new shopping center...
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Eight arrested in Hewitt education reimbursement scamSep 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Eight former employees of Hewitt Associates in Lincolnshire have been arrested for using an in-house continuing education program to scam the company out of thousands of...
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Motorola sues ex-employees for stealing trade secretsSep 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Schaumburg-based Motorola Inc. named four former software engineers employed at its Libertyville and Schaumburg offices in a lawsuit filed Tuesday alleging the theft of ...
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Burlington Coat Factory coming to ElginSep 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Elgin once was considered a hub for suburban shopping. But then regional malls started opening up, and Elgin's downtown pedestrian shopping experience disappeared. The l...
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Antioch proving that small businesses can thriveSep 19, 2008 11:00 pm - A seemingly relentless string of bad economic news has dominated the headlines. Major financial institutions are collapsing, the stock market is plunging, tales of woe a...
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Walgreens offers $2.8 bil to buy Longs Drug StoresSep 12, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK _ Walgreen made an offer late tonight to buy Longs Drug Stores Corporation for $2.8 billion, hoping to unseat a rival offer from CVS Caremark that Longs had al...
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Power restored to Southern planSep 09, 2008 11:00 pm - DEERFIELD - CF Industries Holdings Inc. reported that electrical power and natural gas supplies have been restored to its Donaldsonville, La. nitrogen complex and that t...