Food, liquor lift Woolies
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WOOLWORTHS has bounced back from its 12-month sales slump, yesterday producing a better than expected lift in food and liquor sales as it appeared to win customers away from rival Coles Myer in Victoria.
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Three pies, multiple Coronas and Coney Island: this is how the rock band Spoon spent a recent Sunday.
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Diet trend, high debt level cited. Interstate Bakeries had shown signs of financial trouble for months. Twinkies await sale on a shelf in a Wonder Bread outlet store in Lawrence, Kan.
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Hundreds of new alcoholic beverages are popping up to slake a growing thirst to sip more attractive and expensive liquor.
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WOOLWORTHS has begun to play hardball in the fight to take over Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality, saying its 17 per cent stake in the group would be enough to vote down a higher-priced bid
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By Nick Perry, Seattle Times  Dec. 18--PULLMAN -- Go Cougs!   On this small island of academia amid the rolling swells of the Palouse, the phrase is everywhere -- plastered across store windows, written atop restaurant menus, shouted out in bars.
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Australia&#39;s biggest supermarket group, Woolworths Ltd, has won a fierce Aust. $1.33 billion ($1 billion) battle for pubs chain ALH on Tuesday, beating out rival Coles Myer Ltd which has conceded defeat.
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Woolworths Ltd., Australia&#39;s biggest grocer, increased its offer for Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality Group to A$1.2 billion ($877 million) to stop rival bidder Coles Myer Ltd.
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SINGAPORE The takeover battle for Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality Group and its liquor stores appeared to come to an abrupt end on Tuesday as the retailer Coles Myer handed its rival Woolworths what analysts said might prove a Pyrrhic victory.
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Woolworths Ltd.&#39;s second-half profit rose 12 percent after Australia&#39;s biggest grocer cut the cost of getting goods to its shops and opened 37 new supermarkets and liquor outlets.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep.
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Woolworths says it needs a good Christmas to meet the lower end of its full-year sales targets.
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SYDNEY: Australia&#39;s biggest supermarket group, Woolworths Ltd, won a fierce $A1.33 billion battle for pubs chain ALH yesterday, beating out rival Coles Myer Ltd which conceded defeat.
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Woolworths Ltd. won aA$1.3 billion ($997 million) takeover battle against Coles Myer Ltd. for Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality, cementing its position as the nation&#39;s biggest liquor retailer.
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Peanut butter, toothpaste, and laundry detergent make for an interesting combination.
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Shares in takeover target National Foods have pushed further ahead on the Australian Stock Exchange. Yesterday, they surged more than 5 per cent higher to $6.25, after Philippine food and drink giant San Miguel
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The San Miguel Corporation, the food and beverage conglomerate based in the Philippines, is discussing selling its stake in National Foods of Australia to the Kirin Holdings Company, the Japanese brewing company. San Miguel told the Philippine Stock Exchange that the talks with Kirin were preliminary. Kirin, one of the largest shareholders in San Miguel, confirmed that it was in early talks regarding investing in San Miguel, but said that nothing had been decided.