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Facebook trading debut disappoints investors
NEW YORK — First it popped, then it flopped. Facebook Inc.'s much-hyped debut on Wall Street was an event watched around the world. The social network's initial public offering valued it at $104 billion — more than market stalwarts such as...Tags: Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Financing and Stock Offerings, Arts and Culture, Social Media, Culture
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Multiple options for Chicago-area applicants
Here is a look at major schools that offer Master of Business Administration programs in Chicago or the Chicago area.
Many schools give students a choice of part-time (including evening and weekend options), flexible, full-time, accelerated, dual-degree,...Tags: W.W. Grainger, Inc., Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Mexico, Sara Lee Corporation, University of Notre Dame
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1st-quarter earnings exceed expectations, but skeptics say the bar was low
Not bad. Despite worries about a sluggish global economy, companies have turned out to be more resilient than expected and corporate profits have been sound, especially compared with expectations. With 90 percent of Standard & Poor's 500 companies...
Tags: Industrial Production, Dining and Drinking, Economy, Business and Finance, Thomson Corporation, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Allentown School District gets nutrition funds from McDonald's
With physical education classes cut back in the Allentown School District's elementary schools to nine weeks in the school year, an extra $1,000 for health and nutrition programming would be a valuable boost.
And so it happened last week, when Union...Tags: Obesity, Salads, Health, Nutrition, Summer Olympics
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McDonald's sales up 3.3% in April, lower than expected
ReutersDiners at McDonald's Corp. in the United States stayed away from some higher-priced advertised items like Angus burgers and premium chicken sandwiches in April, amid a tepid U.S. recovery. The world's biggest hamburger chain on Tuesday reported a...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Hamburgers, Foods and Beverages, Economy, Business and Finance, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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McDonald's posts first-quarter profit of $1.27 billion, up 5%
McDonald's Corp., the world's largest hamburger chain, keeps churning out profit — this time because of unexpectedly balmy weather and new products such as Chicken McBites.
The Oak Brook, Ill., company Friday posted a profit of $1.27 billion, or...Tags: New Products, Global Expansion, Oak Brook, Marketing, Kentucky Fried Chicken
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Earnings season off to strong start
McDonald's Corp. threw an earnings Happy Meal at investors late last week and allowed them to go through the weekend in better spirits than they've been able to muster lately amid renewed angst over European debt woes. McDonald's earnings report Friday,...Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Economy, Business and Finance, Earnings, Thomson Corporation, Companies and Corporations
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Burger King pledges to end use of caged pigs, hens
ReutersBurger King, the third-biggest U.S. hamburger chain, has pledged to end the use of the cramped chicken and pig cages targeted by animal welfare activists. On Wednesday, the Miami-based chain committed to serving 100 percent cage-free eggs in its U.S....Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Consumer Goods Industries, Hamburgers, Foods and Beverages
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Pork industry moves to group pens, warns of possible cost increases
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - As pork producers build new barns and retrofit old ones to give hogs more space, they say consumers opposed to keeping pregnant sows in tight cages can expect to pay for their clearer consciences with higher food prices. Under...Tags: Smithfield Foods
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McDonald's All-American notes | Paige keeps Iowa pipeline going for Roy Williams
Marcus Paige joins a short, but highly successful line of players who have been a big part of Roy Williams' success at Kansas and North Carolina.
The 6-foot-1 Paige isn't from Chicago or hotbed recruiting states like California or New York. He's from...Tags: Harrison Barnes, Chemotherapy, Health Treatments, Health, Basketball
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I-29 dairy speaker: Preserving dairy's 'healthy halo'
SIOUX FALLS - Today's dairy checkoff spending is “consumer-driven,” and more heavily involved in driving industry partnerships than it was before 2006. Stan Erwine, vice president of producer relations for Dairy Management Inc., speaking at the I-29 Dairy...Tags: NASA, Science and Technology, Foods and Beverages, Economy, Business and Finance, Healthy Diet
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McDonald's asks suppliers to stop using hog crates
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - McDonald's Corp. said Monday it will require its U.S. pork suppliers to provide plans by May to phase out crates that tightly confine pregnant sows, a move that one animal rights group predicted would have "a seismic impact" on the...Tags: Civil Rights, Smithfield Foods, Coldplay (music group), Ecosystems, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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