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Cosmetics firm Avon Products has implemented a suite of business intelligence solutions to better understand the way its business works, and work out how best to tune its sales offers to customer demand.

When two groups of dedicated volunteers work together, the results can be amazing.

Children learn self reliance when they are able to help with chores. One main chore is keeping their bedroom clean.

How will Procter & Gamble fare in 2012? Well, if the economy is weak, consumers may not stop shaving or brushing their teeth, but they may forgo higher-end items such as tooth-whitening products and may even pass up name brands such as Crest and Tide in favor of private-label products.

A tiny western Ohio liberal-arts college that's in the process of rebuilding after a three-year shutdown is offering free tuition for next year's class of 75 students.

Procter & Gamble Co. has decided it will seek to terminate its sale of the Pringles snack business to Diamond Foods Inc., said three people with knowledge of the situation, following the accounting probe that ousted Diamond's chief executive officer.

Born into entrepreneurial roots - his great-great-grandfather founded True Value Hardware - a young Frank Van Schaack Hibbard III felt the pressure of high family hopes.

Michael Mendes is looking at more than just a dream dying. The 48-year-old son of Azorean immigrants had taken what was a Northern California walnut cooperative and turned it into a company poised to become one of the biggest snack food makers in the world.

Guitarist Stone Gossard demonstrated Saturday that he is almost as good at getting down and dirty pulling roots as playing riffs with the mega-group Pearl Jam, turning out for a band-funded reforestation project at Kirkland's Crestwoods Park.

Your state Capitol is about to become the scene of a collision of giants, with Amazon.com on one side, and an army of brick-and-mortar retailers on the other, including Home Depot and Walmart.

The Toro Co. said Friday that it purchased certain product lines from Astec Industries Inc.

When Caroline Granger first started to enjoy the occasional glass of wine as a consumer, she never dreamed she'd wind up making it.

Photo: Gillette Champion Tiger Woods teaches his legendary golf trick to spectators as he kicks off the Gillette Fusion "Search For The Next Phenom" contest in Orlando.

Procter & Gamble Co. has decided it will seek to terminate its sale of the Pringles snack business to Diamond Foods Inc., said three people with knowledge of the situation, following the accounting probe that ousted Diamond's chief executive officer.

A When we launched our first two Visions for VacanciesA columns the last two Fridays on Livingston Patch, we didn't expect the focus of our reader's responses.

Rent-to-own powerhouse Aaron's Inc. said fourth-quarter revenues rose 8.1%, but profits were essentially even with the comparable quarter in 2010.

Marty Shrader and Jerry McClain, partners in buying of The Place Off The Square, stand outside the Newark hotel Thursday.

A federal grand jury is investigating whether city vendors gave former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin gratuities ranging from plane tickets to materials and equipment for his family's granite-countertop business and also helped the firm land an exclusive installation deal with a retailing giant while Nagin was in office, according to several sources ... (more)

Philanthropist Raymond Perelman says he has been "excluded" from the sale of The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News days after former Gov.

The U.S. Army will most likley court-martial the suspect in the stabbing death of Kirkland's Scarlett Paxton on charges of being absent without leave and assault before turning him over to King County to face first-degree murder charges, says a spokesman at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Dakota Miles Wolf, 19, a private in the Army and also from ... (more)