Starbucks profit rises, cuts new store openings
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Starbucks Corp  on  Wednesday posted higher quarterly profit as the premium coffee  seller works to revive its historically swift growth as it  grapples with slower U.S. consumer spending, high milk prices  and increased competition.
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Retailer Limited Brands Inc. raised its third-quarter profit outlook on Monday after reporting last week a 14 percent increase in sales at stores open at least a year.
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Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc  said on Thursday that quarterly profit rose, as the brewer sold more beer despite the slowing economy.
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Starbucks Corp. SBUX.O, the  world's largest coffee shop chain,  on Wednesday said quarterly  net profit rose 47 percent, helped by its aggressive store  expansion and an extra week in the period.
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SYDNEY Woolworths&#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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Kroger Co.  said on Tuesday that quarterly profit rose 15.8 percent and raised its 2006 earnings view, sending its shares to their highest level in five years, as the grocery chain benefited from lower prices and a better selection of products such as fresh produce.
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Kroger Co.  said on Tuesday that quarterly profit rose 15.8 percent and raised its 2006 earnings view, sending its shares to their highest level in five years, as the grocery chain benefited from remodeled supermarkets, lower prices and improved products.
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Clothing retailer Limited Brands Inc.  LTD.N on Thursday posted a sharply higher quarterly profit,  lifted by a rise in sales at stores open at least a year.
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Starbucks Corp. said quarterly earnings increased 31 percent on the strong holiday sales, and the coffee retailer raised its earnings forecast slightly for its current fiscal year.
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The drugstore chain said that quarterly profit more than doubled, helped by lower costs for store closings and labor.
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Brewer Fuller, Smith & Turner reports a sharp rise in profit after its purchase of rival beer company Gales last year.
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Starbucks Corp. SBUX.O said on   Thursday that sales at coffee shops open at least 13 months   rose 5 percent in August, at the high end of Wall Street   estimates, and shares rose slightly in after-hours trading.
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The food maker General Mills reported a slightly higher profit in its latest quarter on Wednesday, as stronger sales offset rising costs for ingredients and price increases did not faze consumers.
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Department store chain Dillard's Inc.   on Monday posted an unexpected quarterly profit, helped  by demand for upscale clothing as well as strong sales of  furniture in areas recovering from last year's hurricanes.
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General Mills Inc.  on  Wednesday reported a rise in quarterly earnings that matched a  better-than-expected view the company gave earlier this month,  helped by a move to reduce the size of cereal boxes and charge  consumers more per ounce.
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Kroger Co. , the largest U.S. grocery chain, said on Tuesday that quarterly profit rose 15.8 percent, as shoppers were enticed by remodeled stores and improved perishable goods, and it raised its earnings view for the year.
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Starbucks Corp. (SBUX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday said sales at stores open at least 13 months rose 13 percent in November, helped by the coffee shop chain&#39;s early launch