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14 hrs ago | Hampton Roads, Virginia, news, sports...

Western Tidewater Free clinic receives $50,000 Smithfield Foods donation

The Western Tidewater Free Clinic received a large contribution from Smithfield Foods on Nov.

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Related Topix: Food

Mon Nov 30, 2009

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Lisseth Borrego checks out ordered items before packing the products...

Cyber Monday is looking good to local retailers. By Veronica Chufo 247-4741 , November 30, 2009 A La Tienda packer stuffed a cardboard box with chorizo, cheese, chocolate and cookies.

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Related Topix: Toano, VA, Life, Holidays, Day after Thanksgiving, James City County, VA, Food, Smithfield, VA, Marketing

Wed Nov 25, 2009

The Retail Stock Blog

Food Stocks Deserve to Be on Your Plate

Since my last update, nearly three months ago, the Basic Food Fund, or "BFF," has risen 6.4% from $182.93 to $194.66 versus an 8.4% increase in the Dow.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Restaurant Management, Cke Restaurants, Retail, Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea, Grocery, Food, Sara Lee, Apparel, Tyson Foods

Mon Nov 23, 2009

WSBTV

Paula Deen Donating Food To Atlanta Charity

Celebrity chef Paula Deen and Smithfield Foods want to make sure the homeless have food for Thanksgiving.

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Related Topix: Food

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Making a Difference: Audrey Kraemer makes the most of her skills at her second home at the YMCA

Audrey Kraemer considers the Luter Family YMCA in Smithfield to be her second home.

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Related Topix: Food, Smithfield, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA

Thu Nov 19, 2009

ChowHound

May

Oh, she looks gentle and sweet. She makes biscuits like your mama did, and tells y'all to come to supper anytime.

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Related Topix: Food

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Sampson Independent

Council gets first look at proposal for future growth at city water plant

A $4.6 million water treatment plant expansion should meet the maximum demands of the city of Clinton until 2030, engineers told city officials during a recent meeting.

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Related Topix: Clinton, NC, Food

MarketNewsVideo

Today's Big Gainers: SMI, SFD, REGN

Semiconductor Manufacturing International entered into a settlement agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

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Related Topix: Semiconductors, Electronics, Food, Biotech, SanofiSynthlabo, Medicine, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry, Business News, Video

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Blogging Stocks

Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: ADBE, H, HAL, TOL, TROW, TSN ...

Filed under: Analyst reports , Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Analyst initiations Analyst upgrades: Citigroup upgraded FPL Group to buy from hold on valuation and recommends buying the stock into the staff recommendation.

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Related Topix: Energy, FPL Group, Food, T Rowe Price Group, Financial Services, Investment Services

Fri Nov 13, 2009

TheStreet.com

Smithfield Foods Hits 13-Month High

Smithfield Foods reached a 13-month high Wednesday, after the pork processor was upgraded.

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Related Topix: Food, Business News

Thu Nov 12, 2009

MarketWatch

Smithfield shares surge as hog outlook brightens

Shares of Smithfield Foods Inc. charged to their highest level in more than a year Wednesday, stoked by upbeat analyst comments and a rising number of bankruptcy filings among rival hog producers that should help cut oversupply.

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Related Topix: Food, Economics News, Bankruptcy, 9, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Council, NC, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health

Wed Nov 11, 2009

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

Smithfield Foods, Toll Brothers are big movers

The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange: NYSE: Macy's Inc., down $1.57 at $17.86 The department store's third-quarter loss shrunk on inventory controls and localization, while it raised its full-year outlook.

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Related Topix: Construction, Food, Toll Brothers, Financial Markets

Inside Bay Area

Stocks on the move: Nucryst, Sigma Designs, Smithfield, Webster

Shares of the following companies are having unusual moves in U.S. trading this morning.

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Related Topix: Sigma Designs, Semiconductors, Food, Electronics, Computers, Startups, Financial Markets, Adobe Systems, Software, 9

Smithfield Times

Town urged to help business community

By Jim Tuttle Smithfield Times Staff Writer There is an effort underway to - revitalize' Smithfield's Main Street, but some business owners south of Cypress Creek said their part of town has long been neglected.

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Related Topix: Food, Smithfield, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA

Mon Nov 09, 2009

TheStreet.com

Bulls Buy Cephalon, WebMD:Options Recap

Utility AES sees spate of call selling : The electric utility has been dead money for the last three months, and now one investor may be throwing in the towel.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Cephalon, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Food

Sat Nov 07, 2009

PilotOnline.com

Shuttered factories pose big challenges for communities

Loading... 1 of 2 Smithfield Foodsa 413,000-square-foot food packing facility, which will close soon.

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Related Topix: Food, Construction, International Paper, Paper, Norfolk Metro

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Hampton Roads, Virginia, news, sports...

CNU food drive nets more than 10 tons of food for the needy

For eight hours Wednesday, Christopher Newport University students, staff and administrators stuffed cardboard boxes with food in front of the Ferguson Center for the Arts .

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Related Topix: Christopher Newport University, Food

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Hampton Roads, Virginia, news, sports...

CNU food drive for the Foodbank starts Wednesday

Christopher Newport University launches a 10-hour food drive for the Peninsula Foodbank Wednesday with a multi-ton donation of ham from Smithfield Foods .

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Related Topix: Christopher Newport University, Food

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Small Times

Closures Sting, but Region Hasn't Lost Manufacturing Base

Nov. 1--The International Paper mill outside Franklin -- gone by next spring, shredding 1,100 jobs.

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Related Topix: Construction, International Paper, Paper, Food, Norfolk Metro, US Military, US Navy, US News, Household Products

Sat Oct 31, 2009

The Virginian-Pilot

Closures sting, but region hasn't lost manufacturing base

Loading... 1 of 2 Stihl Inc. employee Jocelyn Hull works with a tray of housings at the factory in Virginia Beach Friday.

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Related Topix: Norfolk Metro, Household Products, Construction, International Paper, Paper, Food, US Military, US Navy

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