Northfield Business
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Palatine business focuses on personalizing memorial servicesOct 19, 2009 11:00 pm - A new Palatine business is attempting to make the process of planning a funeral similar to the way an event planner organizes a wedding. Debbie Williams and Beth Kingwi...
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United Airlines' parent UAL reports $57 million 3Q lossOct 19, 2009 11:00 pm - United Airlines parent UAL Corp. reported a money-losing third quarter on Tuesday but said it is beginning to see signs that business travel could pick up soon. The rece...
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Sprint Nextel to buy Schaumburg's IPCS for $426 millionOct 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Sprint Nextel Corp., the third- biggest U.S. wireless carrier, agreed to buy IPCS Inc. in a deal valued at about $426 million in cash to avoid an order to divest some of...
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CME weighs takeover of CBOEOct 18, 2009 11:00 pm - The contest for the Chicago Board Options Exchange may last into the second half of 2010 as the biggest market for U.S. equity derivatives resolves a lawsuit over who ow...
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Verizon's big ad push for Moto's Android takes on iPhoneOct 18, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- An aggressive TV ad campaign from Verizon Wireless is adding to the support building for a software package from Google Inc. that is shaping up to be the mos...
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Citadel wins bid to block ex-exec's start-upOct 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Citadel Investment Group LLC, the Chicago-based hedge fund manager, won its bid for a court order temporarily blocking two former executives from working on their own se...
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Kraft beats Russian recession with Bolshevik cookiesOct 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Kraft Foods Inc., the world's second-largest foodmaker, is beating the recession in Russia as it tailors baked goods to suit local tastes and customers snack on cookies ...
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Local companies McDonald's, Kraft reach out to India, RussiaOct 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Oak Brook-based McDonald's is selling potato burgers in India, and you can even get them with fries, and Northfield-based Kraft, the world's second-largest foodmaker, i...
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Bankrupt General Growth will pay out $47.5 mil in bonusesOct 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Bankrupt shopping mall owner General Growth Properties Inc. won a judge's permission to spend as much as $47.5 million a year for two years on bonus payments, $11.6 mill...
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Hoffman joins UL EnvironmentOct 12, 2009 11:00 pm - NORTHBROOK - UL Environment Inc. Monday said it hired William Hoffman as the organization's new environmental scientist in green chemistry. Hoffman joins ULE from the Ch...