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A year after global drug major Pfizer announced the sale of some of its consumer health brands to Johnson & Johnson, the board of Pfizer India cleared the proposal for the transfer of the brands to J&J in ... via Business Standard

BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today that these select companies have been on the NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE naked short threshold list for 13 consecutive trading days: INVESCO PLC , On2 Technologies Inc , ... via M2.com

Tembec Inc. said noteholders representing US$774 million have agreed to support its recapitalization plan as of Monday. via Mix 99.9

“When you can have great-tasting foods that you feel are an indulgence without the guilt, it makes keeping resolutions and sticking to a weight- management plan easier”

Keeping them is the hard part, especially for weight managers. Resolutions made on the first day of the New Year can be challenging to keep through the first month. via Dairy Field

Montrose has offered Russell Stover Candies incentives to encourage it to expand its plant in town. via Cbs4denver.com

“Nothing in the documents that you've called to our attention suggests otherwise about the past.”

America's largest foodmaker and its biggest cigarette company for years have likened themselves to distant siblings, giants that just happened to be owned by the same parent company.

In fact, Kraft Foods Inc. and Philip Morris USA have pooled expertise in search of making more-alluring foods and cigarettes since the dawn of their corporate pairing two decades ago, a Tribune examination of tobacco-lawsuit documents has found.

Documents show Northfield-based Kraft collaborated on flavor issues with some of the same Philip Morris brain researchers who probed what gives cigarettes their kick. None of those scientists was more controversial than Frank Gullotta, a former top Philip Morris researcher whose brain experiments suggested the company knew more than it claimed about cigarettes' addictive nature. Read more

“We have seen many communities and food banks in need this year and Tyson Foods is happy to help”

Springdale-based Tyson Foods Inc. gave more than 8.5 million pounds of chicken, beef and pork to help feed the hungry in 2007. via The Morning News

“Leveraging IBM's innovation, technology expertise and worldwide network of procurement centers of excellence will enhance our business processes and allow for greater investments in our brands”

IBM today announced they have signed an agreement with Unilever to transform and manage strategic sourcing and procurement operations for the company's Latin American operations. via WebWire

Nearly a thousand workers represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1142 voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract with Smithfield Foods at the company ' s John Morrell Plant in ... via Business Wire

Since late June, shares of meat producer Tyson Foods have lost 36.5% of their value, reflecting investor pessimism that higher feed costs would continue to hamper profitability in 2008. via The Retail Stock Blog

“We didn't know this was gonna happen”

Some farmers who sold corn to be made into ethanol by the now bankrupt Central Illinois Energy were disgruntled to learn they may only get 85 percent of the value the corn now has. via Journal Star

Egg producer Cal Maine Foods Inc. said Friday its second-quarter profit surged on record egg prices and strong international sales. via International Business Times

Japan's Sumitomo Corp. is setting up a company in Russia to sell agrochemical products, the company said in a statement. via Agricultural Market

“My family is still in disbelief”

By ALEX BRANCH A man shot and killed last week when police say he accelerated a stolen car at a Fort Worth police officer may have been momentarily confused after he crashed into a guardrail, the man's ... via Star-telegram.com

VeraSun Energy Corp.'s chief financial officer, Danny Herron, will take on the additional role of president on Jan. via MSN Money

New Sara Lee Soft & Smooth Honey Made with Whole Grain White Bread Offers Unique Combination of Soft White Bread Texture, Whole Grain Nutrition and Honey Flavor DOWNERS GROVE, Ill.-- --Sara Lee , the makers of ... via Business Wire

Tyson Foods , the largest United States meat producer, increased the compensation of its chief executive, Richard L. Bond, fivefold and quadrupled the pay of its former chief, John H. Tyson , as the company ... via New York Times

“Not only that but we had also to walk from Muzdalifah to Mina”

With this year's Haj winding down, some pilgrims interviewed by Arab News expressed their dissatisfaction with the services provided by their Tawafa organizations, the licensed Haj tour operators all pilgrims ... via Arab News

Japan's Kansai Electric Power Co. and trading house Sumitomo Corp. will tie up with Kazakhstan's state-run energy company in uranium processing for nuclear power generation, an official said Wednesday. via XtraMSN Real Estate

“It's complicated by the patch formulation.”

The U.S. government issued a second safety warning Friday on the deaths and dangerous side effects caused by Johnson & Johnson Duragesic skin patch. via People's Daily Online