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Hostess Brands Makes A Comeback From Bankruptcy; Targets Bread

Free of the pension costs and union contracts that weighed down its previous owners, Hostess has nurtured retail sales of its products nearly back to their pre-liquidation level of more than $1.3 billion in 2012, with a fraction of the workers.

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Global Maritime Investments Files For Bankruptcy Protection

The company has lined up $2 million in bankruptcy financing, money to safeguard assets around the globe from being seized by creditors, court papers say.

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Anheuser-Busch InBev Launches Takeover Bid Of SABMiller; ‘Super Brewer’ Could Be Coming

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A merger would create a "super brewery" with nine of the world's top 20 beers by volume, and annual sales of $55 billion.

National Resources Defense Council Grades Restaurant Chains On Antibiotics: Most Fail Big Time

The report builds on rising concern that overuse of antibiotics in meat production contributes to the rise in antibiotic-resistant infections that claim at least 23,000 lives each year.

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Software & Technology

Walmart Expands Grocery Parking Lot Pickup Locations

In recent weeks, the retailer has added dozens of grocery-pickup locations to parking lots of Supercenter and Neighborhood Markets around Phoenix, Denver and Huntsville, Ala.

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Taco Bell Launches Urban Restaurant Concept, Will Serve Alcohol

Expansion plans for additional urban markets are currently being evaluated as Taco Bell is striving to build or remodel around 600 restaurants per year.

Instacart Partners With Target, Expands One-Hour Grocery Delivery Service To Minneapolis

Starting today, customers in parts of the Minneapolis area can order food, household, health and beauty, pet and baby products from Target and have them delivered straight to their doorstep in as little as one hour.

MillerCoors To Close North Carolina Brewery To Improve Efficiencies

The decision to close the Eden Brewery was due to significant overlap in distribution between Eden and the Shenandoah, Va., brewery, which is approximately 200 miles away.

Woman Sues Chipotle After Two Food Poisoning Hospitalizations

April Beck is among 45 or more Salmonella cases involving the restaurant chain that have been reported since Sept. 2 to the Minnesota Department of Health.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Imports Rebound At Los Angeles And Long Beach Ports

Imports through Los Angeles were up 6.3 percent from last August, with the port receiving 407,804 20-foot equivalent units, a standard measure for container cargo. The neighboring Port of Long Beach moved 358,262 import TEUs, an increase of 19.1 percent.

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Taking a Fresh Look At U.S.-Mexico Trade

The longstanding bilateral trade relationship is ripe with new opportunities

Mexico’s improving transportation infrastructure is also helping support its expanding manufacturing industry.

New York Approves $15 Minimum Wage For Big Food Franchises

A controversial decision to require large food franchises to pay workers a $15 minimum wage in New York State got final approval Thursday, after the State Labor Commissioner signed the order, according to CNN.

Protesters, including college students, fast-food restaurant employees and other workers, display placards as they march Tuesday, April 14, 2015, in Boston. Organizers of the event are calling for the nation's lowest paid workers to earn at least $15 per hour.

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