Alliance Boots has announced significant growth last year driven by strong health and beauty sales and cost cutting measures.
The UK pharmacy and beauty manufacturer reported revenues of ?15.304bn for the year ending March 31 2008, an increase of 4.8
per cent on last year’s results.
Trading profit for the company increased by 20.3 per cent to ?771m [...]
South African hopes for an Asian treble were dashed after they were routed for 121 in the second innings on a crumbling pitch after conceding a vital 60-run first innings lead.
India eased to 64 for two in the fourth innings to claim the match with two days left and square the series.
South Africa crushed India [...]
Food prices were up 9 per cent in the year to February. Bread prices are soaring, dairy commodity prices have doubled.
Two factors copping most of the blame %26ndash; the burgeoning wealth of developing countries and the biofuels industry %26ndash; are unlikely to disappear soon.
China, India, and other emerging economies are driving up demand for meat [...]
Increasingly, a station owner’s biggest challenge is convincing drivers to step inside the store after they gas up.”It’s all about trying to sell other things,” said Scott Hartman, president and chief executive of Rutter’s Farm Stores, a York, Pa., company that owns and operates 51 gas stations.Jeff Lenard, spokesman for the National Association of Convenience [...]
It also stands for Force, the form Australian team the Highlanders will have to overcome in Queenstown on Easter Saturday if they are to get their season back on track.
F could stand for failure, the damning assessment the southern franchise will be looking at if it does not start winning %26mdash; even though genuine winning [...]
From office workers in Shanghai to laborers on Shenzhen construction sites, instant noodles are eaten with relish due to the low cost and convenience.
My husband and son love instant noodles. They eat them as breakfast and as a midnight snack, more than twice each week, says Yun, a 41-year-old housewife as she wandered down the [...]
Experts paint a picture of a system that is not working well and getting worse. In a 2006 report, the Institute of Medicine documented the problems and recommended fixes.
Kellermann’s Grady Memorial Hospital trauma service treated the 35 victims of the bombing at the 1996 Olympics. But a decade later, he questions whether it could respond [...]
Less than a minute into his big showdown with Rob Waddell to decide which rower would wear the black singlet in the single sculls in China later this year, he slipped out to an early lead.
It was almost effortless. As it turns out it was.
Waddells heart started racing 300 metres in the race at Karapiro. [...]
