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Campbells - Food
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Campbell Soup adjusted profit up 6 pct in the slow soup season while sales rise ...
Hartford Courant
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — The reported a larger fourth-quarter net income Friday, a time when the temperature rises and its soup sales traditionally drop. | Sales did fall by 1 percent, but improved margins, largely due to productivity gains, helped Campbell top Wall Street's profit expectations by ...
Female Smoking by Country
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Zimbabwe tobacco sales end with record crop
Business Report
  | Submit your comment | Zimbabwe's tobacco sale closed Friday with a record crop of 122 million kilogrammes having been sold, which officials attributed to the increase of small-scale farmers joining the industry. | Rodney Ambrose, chief executive officer of the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association, ...
Proposal on Karaikal merchant airport cleared
The Hindu
| P. Oppili and Rajesh B. Nair | Capacity of terminal building will be 1,400 passengers | Project work to be completed in 18 months | CHENNAI: A proposal to create a merchant airport at Karaikal in Puducherry has been cleared by the Union Civil Aviat...
Court stays sales tax order on BSNL
The Hindu
| Staff Reporter | A single judge order had asked BSNL to pay | Rs. 560 crore | The telecom giant asked to pay Rs. 6,600 crore as sales tax | BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Friday stayed a single judge order directing the public sector Bharat...
Directive on sale deed cancellation
The Hindu
| Special Correspondent | To be executed only with the consent of parties to the deed | KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Friday directed sub-registrars in the State to ensure that a deed of cancellation of a sale deed was registered only if it was exe...
Checks urged over web alcohol sales
London Evening Standard
Not enough is being done to stop teenagers buying alcohol through supermarket online delivery services, according to a report. | Supermarkets are not as stringent about asking for ID when delivering alcohol to people's homes as they are at the checko...
Checks urged over web alcohol sales
The Guardian
| Not enough is being done to stop teenagers buying alcohol through supermarket online delivery services, according to a report. | Supermarkets are not as stringent about asking for ID when delivering alcohol to people's homes as they are at the chec...
Revelations make Tony Blair's memoir a sales sensation
The Australian
| LONDON: First-day sales for Tony Blair's memoir suggest his donation to the Royal British Legion might well exceed the pound stg. 4 million ($6.8m) advance he has already promised to hand on to the veterans' charity. | The British book ch...
eBay president and CEO Meg Whitman waves to the attendees as she walks on the stage at eBay Live conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, June 13, 2006.
AP / Jae C. Hong
Historic coaster at Geauga Lake for sale on eBay
Ohio
| People often turn to eBay to pick up beloved toys from bygone years. | One childhood icon currently up for sale would take up a whole lot of space in someone's backyard, not to m...
Poland - Auto Dealers - Cadillac
WN / marzena
August sales numbers: GM loses some ground while Buick, Cadillac shine
The Examiner
| In August of 2009, the Cash 4 Clunkers process was in full swing, helping to inflate sales numbers. That was good news then but without the government assistance, the numbers for...
Toyota Innova with a facelift.
Creative Commons / Two hundred percent
Car sales surge 50% as buyers skip carbon tax avoidance
Business Report
  | August deals soar despite strike shortages | By Roy Cokayne | Submit your comment | Pre-emptive buying to avoid the carbon dioxide emissions tax on new cars, which came in...
N.C. ending fraud probe into mountain lot sales
Knox News
| RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper’s office said today it was ending its civil investigation into the sale of overpriced mountain lots near the Tennessee border to buyers who were told they could profit without investing...
Bob Dylan to play five shows in Florida during October, tickets go on sale during ...
The Examiner
| Bob Dylan's official website has announced five concert dates in Florida, starting October 6. The first four shows are at different universities, while the fifth is at the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center. It is unclear if these dates  are be...
Lock of Troy Polamalu's million dollar hair up for sale on eBay
The Examiner
| Troy Polamalu is well-known as the player from the Pittsburgh Steelers with the flowing mane of curly Samoan hair.  Now, you can own a lock of Polamalu's hair if you are the highest bidder on eBay.  That's right, a lock of Polamalu's hair is bein...
Currency
One US Dollar - Currency
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U.S. Dollar Mixed in Quiet Trading
The Street
The general consolidative tone that emerged near midweek remains intact. The U.S. employment data is seen by many as the likely signal of the near-term direction, but over the last three months the market's disappointment has not been consistently been reflected or expressed in the dollar's performance. | Global equity markets were finishing the we...



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