1 hr ago | Daily News
'Colluding' hospital supplier hit
“The... allegations of collusive tendering and market allocation made in the complaint referral against AICC were substantially correct.”
The Competition Commission slapped SA's largest supplier of hospital products, Adcock Ingram, with a R53-million fine on Friday, the highest penalty in local history for collusive behaviour. via Daily News
5 hrs ago | ChicagoBusiness.com Breaking News
Wrigley Jr. Co. would end 117 years of independence for the Chicago-based gum maker but could liberate the fractious Wrigley clan from intra-family tensions that have simmered for nearly a decade. via ChicagoBusiness.com Breaking News
9 hrs ago | NBR Newsroom
Major companies line up against climate change bill
“It makes sense that we only include these gases in the scheme when we have the ability to reduce them.”
Legislation at the heart of the Government's climate change strategy is being savagely criticised by big companies, who say it will cost the economy billions of dollars. via NBR Newsroom
14 hrs ago | Log Cabin Democrat
Ark. court: Cancer claim against poultry firms can proceed
“The Greens submitted numerous affidavits and deposition testimony of (litter) spreaders, property owners, teachers, and medical personnel that support these experts' contentions that Green was exposed to the poultry producers' chicken litter”
Arkansas poultry producers dismissed two years ago from a lawsuit that seeks to hold them responsible for a man's leukemia are targets again of the legal action. via Log Cabin Democrat
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23 hrs ago | Kansas.com
MGP Ingredients reports third-quarter loss
“In our view, there is less crop risk in global wheat supplies than with corn”
MGP Ingredients Inc. said today it lost money in the third quarter as high grain prices and attempts to shrink its pet-related business offset higher sales. via Kansas.com
Yesterday | KDBC
Yesterday | The Irish Times
Unilever beats first-quarter forecasts
“While it is early in the year, we now expect underlying sales growth in 2008 to exceed our 3 to 5 per cent target range”
Food and consumer goods group Unilever beat forecasts with a 7.2 per cent rise in first-quarter underlying sales today and said it expected sales in the year to beat its own target range. via The Irish Times
Yesterday | WebWire
Campbell Soup Company And The National Association Of Letter Carriers Team Up To Stamp Out Hunger
“Hunger continues to be a vital issue in this country”
Nation's Largest Food Drive Helps Millions of Americans On Saturday, May 10, Campbell Soup Company will join forces with the National Association of Letter Carriers to Stamp Out Hunger! across America. via WebWire
Yesterday | Tampa Bay Online
Wrigley News Stuns Heiress; Odessa Estate Comforts
“I refused any help from my family because I didn't want them to own me”
The news, in an 8:45 a.m. phone call, hit like a death in the family. "There's been a takeover," Helen Rosburg's sister and fellow Wrigley chewing-gum company heiress said April 28 when Rosburg picked up the ... via Tampa Bay Online







