Elgin Business
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How will Japanese disaster impact consumer goods?Mar 15, 2011 12:00 am - The horrors continue to mount in Japan, and that has cast a shadow worldwide on the outlook for some consumer goods and their prices. Numerous manufacturers endured dam...
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Motorola CEOs get pay raisesMar 14, 2011 11:00 pm - Motorola Solutions Inc. and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., the two companies that split from each other this year, increased the pay of the chief executive officers wh...
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Boeing expects value of orders to riseMar 14, 2011 11:00 pm - Boeing Co., the world's second- biggest planemaker, expects commercial-jet orders to rise this year in dollar terms because of demand for the new 747-8 and other widebod...
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Nokia wants to renegotiate Moto dealMar 14, 2011 11:00 pm - Nokia Siemens Networks is seeking to renegotiate its $1.2 billion purchase of wireless network assets from Motorola Solutions Inc., according to two people close to the ...
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Elgin’s Harting of North America recognized for new productMar 14, 2011 12:00 am - Harting Inc. of North America, based in Elgin, received another prestigious design award Monday for an industrial electrical connector the company released a year ago. T...
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Des Plaines Cheeseburger in Paradise closesMar 14, 2011 12:00 am - Cheeseburger in Paradise, a prominent tenant in Des Plaines’ Metropolitan Square, has closed its doors after five years. Workers took down the sign for the Jimmy Buffett...
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Exelon shares fall on Japan nuclear problemsMar 13, 2011 11:00 pm - Exelon Corp., owner of the largest group of U.S. nuclear power plants, declined as engineers in Japan struggled to stabilize a reactor similar in design to four of its u...
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Boeing looks to boost 737 productionMar 13, 2011 11:00 pm - Boeing Co. is “taking a hard look” at boosting monthly output of its best-selling 737-model jet to 42 planes a month, an increase of 11 percent from its current plan, to...
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Kraft CFO to leave in mid-2011Mar 13, 2011 11:00 pm - Kraft Foods Inc. says that its Chief Financial Officer Timothy McLevish is leaving the company in mid-2011 to "pursue opportunities in general management." McLevish, 55,...
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Tribune: Let us exit bankruptcy soonMar 13, 2011 11:00 pm - WILMINGTON, Del. — A top executive with Tribune Co. wants a judge to approve the company's plan to emerge from bankruptcy protection as soon as possible. Eddy Hartenste...