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Stress erodes employee health -- and corporate profits
Arianna HuffingtonOn Tuesday I guest-hosted CNBC's "Squawk Box," a program that bills itself as the show that "brings Wall Street to Main Street." As well as discussing Cyprus and a possible euro-crisis, we discussed the growing trend in corporate America of taking steps...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Companies and Corporations, The Huffington Post, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Health and Safety at Work
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Bills would require labels on genetically engineered food in Minnesota
Minnesota could become the next battleground in the fight over mandatory labels for genetically modified food. Bills were introduced on Feb. 28 in the Minnesota Legislature that would require food manufacturers to label their products to indicate...Tags: Food Industry, Hormel Foods Corporation, Genetic Engineering, Arable Farming, Mark Dayton
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Dow hits record, erasing Great Recession losses
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is back. Five and a half years after the start of a frightening drop that erased $11 trillion from stock portfolios and made investors despair of ever getting their money back, the Dow Jones industrial average...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Warren Buffett, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Apple iPhone, Citigroup Incorporated
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Don't have time to eat breakfast? Drink it
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — If you don't have time to sit down for a bowl of cereal in the morning, companies are hoping you'll want to drink your breakfast. As companies struggle to grow cereal sales in the U.S., Kellogg and General Mills are...
Tags: Quakerism, Indra K. Nooyi, PepsiCo Inc.
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Cutting calories is good business for restaurants, study says
Chain restaurants have been nudged and cajoled for years to ditch mammoth portion sizes and high-calorie choices. But perhaps the best motivation to lower-calorie, more healthful menu items is here: profit. A report released Thursday calls lower-calorie...
Tags: Food Industry, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse Incorporated, Lifestyle and Leisure, Weight
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CONSUMER REPORTS: Canned food complaints
As a careful shopper, you try to get the most for your money. So, once you get home and open canned foods, it can be disappointing to find lots of liquid. Consumer Reports has a lot of complaints about this issue. Supermarkets have shelf after shelf...Tags: Consumers
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In the food business, it's survival of the largest
(MCT) - When ConAgra ponied up about $5 billion for St. Louis-based Ralcorp recently, the Omaha-based conglomerate did something that food companies have been doing for a while: It got a lot bigger. ConAgra Foods Inc., which produces some 60 brand...Tags: Food Industry, Groceries, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ralcorp Holdings Incorporated, ConAgra Foods Incorporated
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Corporate support of National FFA Organization in 2012 tops $16.2 million
INDIANAPOLIS - Corporate and individual contributions to the National FFA Foundation in 2012 to support national FFA programs and agricultural education climbed to more than $16.2 million. Corporate support this year exceeded the $15.8 million donated...Tags: Animals, Human Interest
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Indian-born adviser to Leo Burnett, colleagues navigates digital world
Tribune staff reporterOn a warm September day in Chicago, Rishad Tobaccowala counseled a roomful of Leo Burnett executives on how to sell high-tech gadgets -- told in terms of hot dogs. Tobaccowala, who has spent 30 years at Leo Burnett and affiliated agencies,...Tags: Online Media Industry, Companies and Corporations, Leo Burnett, Music, Harvard University
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The last potpie
For everything that was about to happen, everything that was coming to light, I needed an old-fashioned potpie with a creamy chicken filling and a rich, flaky crust, the kind that puffed up and baked to a golden buttery crisp.
That's what I cooked when...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Nutmeg, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan Avenue, Potatoes
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Election shows country is changing, gay marriage advocates say
Same-sex marriage advocates are reveling in their four victories at the ballot box after 32 straight defeats, calling the results in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington on Tuesday a sea change for the gay rights movement. “When the history...
Tags: Elections, Human Rights, Barack Obama, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Family
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For 100 years, Northern Michigan remains important part of Isabel Porter's life
PETOSKEY — During the summers she spent in Northern Michigan as a child, Isabel Porter didn’t have many modern conveniences at her disposal. Her family’s cottage on Burt Lake was lit by oil lamps, and indoor plumbing had not yet...
Tags: U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Hobbies, Lifestyle and Leisure
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