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...“Imagine walking into a McDonald’s and interacting with Ronald McDonald himself,” he says....
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
...GM’s new Chinese-designed, Indian-made carChilean poverty data controversy reveals tough truths about country’s growthGeorgia: dark side of Rose RevolutionAudi revs up in MexicoColombia v Argentina: GDP...
...interest recently in becoming bigger in government business, with their near universal focus on growing internationally,” noted said Carl McDonald, a Citigroup analyst....
...But it is struggling with V-water, PepsiCo’s vitamin water brand, which Britvic makes and distributes. V-water is less suited to a recession as it is high-priced in a relatively new category....
...People usually head back to the shops after downturns to buy all the things they had been putting off when times were tough, helping the economy spring back in a cheerful V-shape....
...It is the final investment left from the private equity group’s £300m Fund V, which it raised in 1993....
...UHG shares lost 9.7 per cent to $34.15 and peers Cigna and Aetna dipped 5.9 per cent to $39.83 and 4.2 per cent to $40.38 respectively....
...And in India, there is more demand for more money, because of the increase in cost of living there,” says K.V....
...McDonald’s added 5 per cent to $33.56 and Starbucks soared 6.3 per cent to $37.97....
...Cigna has lost a third of its value since March....
...Verizon, the wireless provider, has been broadcasting video clips of goals and key moments from each game to subscribers to its new V-cast service, under a deal with Univision, the broadcaster that holds...
...Indeed, opinion polls at the time of the Pelman v McDonald's case showed that more than 80 per cent of the US public thought the case was frivolous....
...Shares in McDonald's, another component of the blue-chip stock gauge, eased 0.7 per cent to $29 after the restaurant operator reported a 42 per cent rise in profits....
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