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Mislabeling, lax oversight threaten kids with allergies -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) | 29 minutes ago
American children with food allergies are suffering life-threatening--and completely avoidable--reactions because manufacturers mislabel their products and regulators fail to police store shelves, a Tribune investigation has found.... (more)
Woolworths falls on concern it won't sell stores
STLtoday.com | 30 minutes ago
P-D political correspondent Jo Mannies and colleagues blog about Missouri and St. Louis politics.... (more)
Smucker posts 3 percent 2Q earnings gain - Sacramento Business, Housing Market News | Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Bee (Calif.), The | 34 minutes ago
ORRVILLE, Ohio -- J.M. Smucker Co., the nation's top maker of jams and jellies and now into the coffee market, said Friday that its earnings rose 3 percent in its second fiscal quarter, due to price increases and families choosing to have meals at home in hard times.... (more)
Huge glaciers detected under rocky debris on Mars
Reuters | 35 minutes ago
By Will DunhamWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A radar instrument aboard a NASA spacecraft has detected large glaciers hidden under rocky debris that may be the vestiges of ice sheets that blanketed parts of Mars in a past ice age, scientists said on Thursday.... (more)
Anheuser-Busch Ups Recycling at Breweries
Progressive Grocer | 37 minutes ago
Anheuser-Busch said that even with production increases, it has managed to cut the weight of materials that it sends to local landfills by nearly 22 percent (or approximately 2,400 tons) in 2008 compared to the same time frame last year, thanks to ongoing efforts to recycle the solid waste associated with brewing and packaging its beers, to a rate of more than 99 percent.... (more)
Observatory - Blanket of Soil May Hide Vast Martian Glaciers - NYTimes.com
New York Times, The | 41 minutes ago
The surface of Mars can be a bumpy place, particularly in the mid-latitudes. There, steep peaks are often surrounded by broad lobes of material that stretch away from the peaks for up to a dozen miles. Scientists have long thought that those big bumps might contain water ice, but in what form and how much no one knew.... (more)
Smucker's shares up 7 percent on 2Q profit beat - Forbes.com
Forbes | 2 hours 33 minutes ago
Shares of jelly and jams maker J.M. Smucker Co. soared 7 percent Friday after the company said its second-quarter profit and revenue rose, benefiting from more consumers eating at home. The Orrville, Ohio, company's stock rose $2.75 to $41 in morning trading Friday.... (more)
Anheuser-Busch InBev Names Execs
Brandweek | 2 hours 47 minutes ago
-By Staff Report Anheuser-Busch today announced a new executive lineup in its business unit following the completion of its merger with InBev, which purchased the brewer for $52 billion. The new company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, has appointed Keith Levy has vp of marketing to lead brand management, consumer strategies, creative development, media, sports and entertainment sponsorships and activation. Levy, who joined A-B in 1987, was previously vp-brand management. David English will...... (more)
Subway Signs Michael Phelps
Brandweek | 2 hours 47 minutes ago
-By Kenneth Hein Move over Jared, here comes Michael Phelps. Subway, the largest franchised restaurant in the world, announced a long-term partnership with the Olympic gold medalist. Since winning eight gold medals at the summer games in Beijing, Phelps has been in serious demand. He has partnered with Kellogg Corn Flakes, Rosetta Stone, Speedo and Visa. He's also hosted Saturday Night Live. Subway itself is on a hot streak: a $5 footlong promotion has helped insulate the quick...... (more)
Woolworths shares plummet by 28%
Times (London), The | 3 hours 9 minutes ago
Shares in Woolworths fell 28 per cent this morning as the struggling retailer battled to secure a takeover.... (more)
Clue to Mars climate change
Australian, The | 3 hours 11 minutes ago
HUNDREDS of huge glaciers thought to be remnants of a Martian ice age have been discovered close to the planet's equator.... (more)
America's Best Leaders: Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo CEO - US News and World Report
Promo Magazine | 3 hours 23 minutes ago
She played lead guitar in an all-women rock band in her hometown of Madras, India. She was a cricket player in college. She sang karaoke at corporate gatherings. Today, Indra Nooyi presides over 185,000 employees in nearly 200 countries as the chief executive of PepsiCo. And she still performs on stage at company functions.... (more)
NASA discovers massive buried glaciers on Mars - NYTimes.com
New York Times, The | 3 hours 26 minutes ago
After the excitement of scraping up slivers of what turned out to be ice on Mars this summer, NASA announced late Thursday that it's discovered vast glaciers hidden under rubble. One glacier is three times the size of the city of Los Angeles and up to a half-mile thick, according to an alert from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory . The glaciers were spotted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which in late September also sent back information about fractures in the surface of the Red Plane...... (more)
Heinz quarterly profit rises, helped by hedging - Forbes.com
Forbes | 5 hours 24 minutes ago
* Q2 EPS 87 cents * Posts $92 million benefit from currency hedging * Sticks by full-year forecast * Stock rises 3.9 percent in premarket trade CHICAGO (Reuters) - H.J. Heinz Co (nyse: HNZ - news - people ) posted a higher quarterly profit on Friday, helped by price increases, currency hedging and strong sales in North America and emerging markets.... (more)
Smucker's 2Q profit rises 3 pct partly on deals - Forbes.com
Forbes | 5 hours 24 minutes ago
Jelly and jams maker J.M. Smucker Co. said Friday that its second-quarter profit edged up 3 percent on acquisitions and price increases.... (more)
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