Lake County Business
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Swine flu vaccine tests begin at Baxter using virusMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Swine flu virus has been received by Baxter International Inc. from the World Health Organization, and the company said it has begun testing samples in an Austrian labor...
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About 1,500 jobs being cut around IllinoisMay 06, 2009 11:00 pm - About a dozen companies around Illinois are laying off about 1,500 workers - including 800 in the suburbs - now through July mostly because of the recession, according t...
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Suitmaker's employees take plea to presidentMay 05, 2009 11:00 pm - A large poster bearing the signatures of more than 500 workers at Hart Schaffner & Marx's manufacturing plant in Des Plaines is making its way to President Barack Obama....
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Baxter declares quarterly dividendMay 05, 2009 11:00 pm - DEERFIELD - Baxter International Inc. announced a quarterly dividend Tuesday 26 cents per share of Baxter common stock, a continuation of the current rate. The quarterl...
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Motorola shareholders vent frustrationMay 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Angry shareholders of Schaumburg-based Motorola Inc. Monday cornered its co-chief executives on their multi-million-dollar salaries, the massive losses, a lack of succes...
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New Antioch car wash business loves dirty carsMay 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Blair Martineau loves dirty cars. The more the better, especially if they are getting scrubbed down at his new car wash in Antioch. The Grayslake man opened the Ultimat...
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Pepsi Bottling rejects PepsiCo acquisition offerMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - MILWAUKEE -- Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. said Monday that it has rejected what it called a "grossly inadequate" acquisition offer from PepsiCo Inc., but analysts said that...
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Walgreens reports 5.7 percent increase in salesMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - The later Easter holiday was part of the reason Walgreens sales in April increased 5.7 percent over last year, according to figures released today. The Deerfield-based ...
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Abbott sues Johnson & Johnson to block arthritis drug SimponiMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Abbott Laboratories, maker of the rheumatoid arthritis drug Humira, sued Johnson & Johnson's Centocor unit to prevent it from introducing a competing medicine for the cr...
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Brunswick CEO: Boat sales won't recover soonMay 02, 2009 11:00 pm - HAM LAKE, Minn. -- The economy was a big part of why Soua Xiong held off buying a new fishing boat for the past couple years. Hoping the worst was over, he was ready to ...