Grandwood Park Business
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Grainger announces India investmentJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Lake Forest-based Grainger, a broad line distributor of facilities maintenance products firm, announced the company has bought a 49.9 percent stake in Asia Pacific Brand...
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Restaurant owners respond to dieting food budgetsJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - When it costs $100 to fill up the car on the way home, the idea of ordering pizza for the family may be panned, said Rick Rosati, who runs a growing pizza chain. "Anybod...
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Kraft Foods 2nd-quarter profit rises 4 percentJul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - MILWAUKEE -- Kraft Foods Inc., the nation's largest food and beverage maker, reported a second-quarter profit rise of nearly 4 percent on Monday, saying higher prices he...
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Frykman Technologies still takes care of low-tech typewritersJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - For people of a certain age, the rat-a-tat of a typewriter in action is an unmistakable sound. But as personal computers superseded typewriters as indispensable pieces o...
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Frustrations become growing business helping the elderlyJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - When a Lake County couple attempted to find care for their grandma, who was suffering with cancer in Florida, they grew frustrated. Shelly and JR Sun compared many of th...
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Brunswick to re-size, reduce costs by $300 millionJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - LAKE FOREST - Brunswick Corp., the maker of Sea Ray yachts and Boston Whaler fishing boats, plans to close four more North American plants and may fire as much as 10 per...
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Olympic Committee leader asks for business community's supportJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - About 150 area business leaders attended the annual meeting of the Woodfield Chicago Northwest Convention Bureau on Thursday to hear an update on Chicago's bid for the 2...
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Lawmakers subpoena Northbrook company in salmonella outbreakJun 13, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers voted Thursday to subpoena nine companies responsible for analyzing the most dangerous food entering the country as part of an investigation that...
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Abbott unveils $53 million research facilityJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Drugs that might treat cancer and other deadly diseases are expected to reach the public faster because of work done at Abbott Laboratories' $53 million research and dev...
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Bartering grows as economy stallsJun 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Kindergarten CDs are available for swaps online at uSwapit.com Schaumburg-based Ala Carte Entertainment and its 25 area restaurants use two barter exchanges to obtain it...