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    <title><![CDATA[Morrisons to Launch E-Commerce Site Under Partnership with Ocado]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The deal involves technology and services arrangement and a sale of property at Dordon.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[McDonald’s 'Getting in Touch' with Charles Ramsey, Stoked with the Publicity High]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[McDonald’s act of “getting in touch” with the Cleveland hero arouses disapproval from a business standpoint.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sainsbury's Full-Year Profit Falls Despite Sales Rise]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Sainsbury&#039;s to buy remaining 50% stake in banking JV with Lloyds Banking Group for £248m.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 03:51:41 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Viagra Online Selling: Pfizer Launches Own Website]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[To combat fake online pharmacies selling Viagra, Pfizer launches its own website to sell directly to its customers]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:53:45 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Target, BIG W, K-MART, Cotton-On Squint on Bangladesh Rana Factory Tragedy]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Australian clothing companies allegedly use cheap labor to produce their garments.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cancer-Causing Agent Found in Johnson & Johnson Baby Powders]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The famous cosmetic brand manufacturer Johnson & Johnson loses its license in India due to an ordered case by the Food and Drug Administration after 15 batches of baby powder products were found sterilized by an irritant and cancer-causing component.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:48:31 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[$98 Shirt You Can Wear 100 Days Without Washing]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[In 2011, a college student from the University of Alberta, Josh Le, were only one pair of jeans for 15 months and to his surprise found that the germ level of the garment was not worrisome. Could the same thing be said of shirts?.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:01:18 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Greggs Shares Tumble on Profit Warning After Sales Fall]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Greggs projects full-year profit below the lower end of market expectations between £47.5m and £55.2m.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:16:58 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[UK Government Exploring Private Equity Sale for Royal Mail Group - Sky News]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Government advisers sounding out private equity groups as plans for £1bn flotation fall through.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:22:09 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Is Britain’s High Street Broken? [VIDEO INVESTIGATION]]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[IB Times UK presenter Marverine Cole looks at the declining fortunes of the UK high street.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:54:21 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Debenhams Shares Soar on Better Second-Half Outlook]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Debenhams shares gain about 8 percent on better second-half forecast.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Carrefour First-Quarter Sales Down on Foreign Exchange Impact]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Carrefour&#039;s first-quarter sales rose 1.3 percent year-on-year to €20.83bn on constant currency.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:10:42 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cadbury Adds 20 Grammes to Dairy Milk Chocolate Bar, But Recommended $4.49 Retail Price Still the Same]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Chocolate manufacturers, it seems, are following the model of smartphone, tablet and TV makers by coming up with larger models of their products.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:20:28 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Scotland Chases Dead Man for £6]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Grieving daughter carries urn containing father&#039;s ashes to Royal Bank of Scotland branch, to prove he is, in fact, dead]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:03:29 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[EasyJet Appoints Next's John Barton as Chairman]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[John Barton replaces Sir Mike Rake who was in row with easyJet&#039;s founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tesco Plans US Exit As Profits Slump For First Time in 20 Years]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Europe&#039;s biggest food retailer will close &quot;Fresh & Easy&quot; brand in the United States as CEO Philip Clarke continues his aim to focus on UK growth]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:28:48 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Branding Executive Creates Web Site Described as America’s Funniest Home Videos for Sex]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[To change the wrong notion that many people have about lovemaking, often caused by first exposure to sex through pornographic movies, a start-up company in New York is attempting to educate the public about what real love making is.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:51:41 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Australia’s Restaurants with the Dirtiest Kitchens: Would You Still Eat There?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Almost 10 per cent of 3,500 of 36,000 dining establishments in New South Wales failed the state&#039;s hygiene test. Among their violations are preparation of food in dirty kitchens and failure to control the spread of bugs.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:30:59 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hilco to Save 2,500 HMV Jobs in £50m Deal]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Deal in place to rescue 140 HMV stores.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:13:52 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Click Frenzy Returns, Organisers Say They Are Ready for 3 Million Aussie Online Shoppers on April 23]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Click Frenzy online sale in Australia is making a comeback. Organisers assured Aussie consumers that the crash would not happen again.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:00:05 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Domino's Pizza First Quarter Sales Rise on Strong Online Orders]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Domono&#039;s Pizza projects trading in 2013 in line with market forecasts.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:52:36 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tech Firms, Sellers Dropping Gadget Prices – $381 Asus VivoTab RT, $249 Samsung Chromebook at Amazon; $25 Raspberry Pi Linus at Allied]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[For price sensitive techies, now is a good time to consider buying a new tablet or computer with technology firms and sellers offering bargain deals.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:50:03 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mulberry Shares Plunge on Weaker-Than-Expected Profit Outlook]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Mulberry expects yearly pre-tax profit in the region of £26m, compared to analysts&#039; estimate of £31.2m.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[China Resources' 2012 Profit Surges 31% at $508 Million]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[China Resources looks to team up with market leaders in the future as the retail sector remains challenging.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Asos Shares Surge 7% on Robust First-Half Sales]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Asos bucks the dismal trend in retail sector with 34% rise in first-half sales.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Greggs Full-Year Profit Down 2.2% on Wet Weather and Sector Weakness]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Greggs&#039; full-year profit falls to £51.9m despite sales rise as consumer spending remained under pressure.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Melbourne’s Crown Casino Loses $32M to Foreign High-Stakes Gambler Using Ocean Eleven-Style Heist]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Australia&#039;s largest gambling business, the Crown Casino in Melbourne, lost $32 million to a foreign high-stakes gambler who used an Ocean Eleven-style heist, reports said.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Home Retail Raises Yearly Profit Outlook on Strong Sales at Argos]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Home Retail&#039;s Argos division benefits from increased sales of consumer electronics, white goods and core electricals.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[William Morrison's Profits Fall After 'Disappointing' Christmas Sales]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Retailer in technology and licensing talks with Ocado on plans to launch online offering in 2014.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Inditex Yearly Profit Rise 22% on Global Expansion]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Zara owner Inditex&#039;s net profit rises to €2.4bn in fiscal year 2012 as it added 482 more stores in 64 markets.]]></description>
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