Oak Brook Business
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McDonald's ends test run with Pepsi, sticks with CokeFeb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - McDonald's Corp. stopped selling PepsiCo Inc.'s bottled Mountain Dew and Gatorade, ending a test that challenged Coca-Cola Co., the exclusive fountain-drink provider to ...
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Enterprise fuming over suburban rental taxFeb 24, 2009 10:00 pm - Enterprise Rent-A-Car says the city of Chicago is overstepping its bounds with a tax on suburban drivers who use their rentals primarily in the city. The Nevada-based c...
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Judge approves Advocate settlement with uninsuredFeb 24, 2009 10:00 pm - Tens of thousands of uninsured patients might qualify for refunds on payments they made to eight Chicago and suburban hospitals under a settlement in a class-action laws...
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Movers & shakersFeb 21, 2009 10:00 pm - Red Oak Marketing, Lake Forest, a provider of full service customer care and communications solutions, appointed Tom Michel as senior vice president of sales. Michel, wh...
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New chief at Navistar financialFeb 20, 2009 10:00 pm - WARRENVILLE-- David Johanneson, a 36-year veteran in the truck industry, has been named president and chief executive officer of Navistar Financial Corporation, a owned ...
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McDonald's gets $423.7M loan from Japanese banksFeb 18, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- McDonald's Corp. said Thursday it secured a $431.2 million loan from three Japanese banks. The nation's No. 1 hamburger chain said the 40 billion yen loan wa...
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Crowe Horwath grows to East CoastFeb 17, 2009 10:00 pm - OAK BROOK - Crowe Horwath LLP, a large public accounting and consulting firm, is expanding on the East Coast. Crowe announced an agreement to combine with the practice o...
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Oak Brook's RC2, Muppets creator sign dealFeb 15, 2009 10:00 pm - The Jim Henson Co. has appointed RC2 Corp. as the global master toy licensee for the upcoming animated series Dinosaur Train. Under the multiyear agreement, RC2 Corpora...
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Sharpie makes new upscale marker , stainless steel version of the classicFeb 12, 2009 10:00 pm - OAK BROOK - Sharpie is coming out with a new premium Sharpie marker, a stylish stainless steel version of the Sharpie marker, during Hollywood's biggest awards show. Th...
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Oak Brook man, WexTrust founder charged in $9.2 mil Ponzi schemeFeb 10, 2009 10:00 pm - Steven Byers, the co-founder of real-estate investment firm WexTrust Capital LLC, was jailed yesterday on charges that he conspired to cheat investors out of $9.2 millio...