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Kraft Foods to split into 2 companies
TribLocal - Winnetka & Northfield » NewsChicago Tribune reports: Just 18 months after acquiring British candy maker Cadbury, Kraft Foods is breaking up. The Northfield-based conglomerate, currently the world's second-largest food …... -
Fortune Brands lifts low end of 2010 outlook
Chicago Breaking BusinessAssociated Press via Bloomberg | Deerfield-based Fortune Brands, the maker of Jim Beam bourbon, bathroom faucets and other consumer products, raised the low end of its full-year adjusted earnings guidance on Tuesday, citing its better-than-expected first-... -
Fortune Brands to increase marketing efforts
Chicago Breaking BusinessFrom Reuters | Deerfield-based Fortune Brands plans to increase marketing spending in its spirits business more than 10 percent. Fortune's senior vice president and chief financial officer Craig Omtvedt said that Fortune wants to build its core brands,... -
Fortune Brands survives Callaway patent lawsuit
Chicago Breaking BusinessFrom Bloomberg | Fortune Brands' golf business, Acushnet, was a winner today after Callaway Golf Co., the maker of Big Bertha golf clubs, lost a bid for $246 million in patent-infringement damages.Get the full story: businessweek.com.... -
The week ahead
Chicago TribuneMonday: -- Earnings: American Express Co.; Apollo Group Inc.; Apple Inc.; Halliburton Co.; Hasbro Inc.; Kimberly-Clark Corp.; Merck & Co.; Pactiv Corp.; PrivateBancorp Inc.; Schering-Plough Corp.; Texas Instruments Inc.; Wintrust Financial Corp.; Zebra...Tags: Countrywide Financial Corp., Arthur J. Gallagher & Company, Earnings, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.
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Local stocks rise above tumult
Tribune staff reporterAmid rising investor nervousness, volatility and turmoil in debt markets stemming from defaults on subprime mortgages, Chicago-area stocks managed to largely hold their own over the last three months. Perhaps surprisingly, there were only a dozen...Tags: Indiana, Credit Ratings, Mutual Funds, Investments, Auto Trends
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Winners scarce among big area firms
Tribune staff reporterChicago-area stocks have not gotten off to a particularly good start in 2003. As market benchmarks look to break the first three-year losing streak since World War II, the biggest local companies endured a rocky first quarter, with a few, mostly limited,...Tags: Credit Ratings, Intel Corp., Lee, Entertainment, Morningstar Incorporated
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Critics of imperial pay taste success, pressure boards
Tribune newspapers: Los Angeles TimesIt's getting harder for imperial chief executives to hold on to power. That's raising hopes that the idea of imperial CEO pay also will soon be dethroned. Corporate reform activists, including those who have long campaigned against outrageously...Tags: The Walt Disney Co., Duke University, Shareholders, Proxy Filings, Chicago Tribune
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Company had established a plan for CEO succession
Tribune staff reporterMonday's events at McDonald's Corp. are a wake-up call for companies without second-in-command executives. Most corporate boards have contingency plans for the sudden death or disability of a chief executive, such as tapping a senior board member as...Tags: Management Change, IBM, General Motors Corp., Companies and Corporations, Baxter International Inc.
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Some new realities await opening bell at exchanges
Tribune markets columnistStock prices face potentially sharp adjustments to new global economic realities as soon as trading resumes. Trading has been frozen since last Monday, but investor sentiment toward equities has ebbed and flowed with each news headline. Generally,...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Transportation, New York City, Lee, Entertainment
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