BRIEFCASE.Byline: -- Staff and Wire Services Marketing pact signed by Dole WESTLAKE VILLAGE -- Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc., a subsidiary of Dole Food Company Dole Food Company, Inc. is an American-based agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Westlake Village, California and is the leading grower and packer of such food items as bananas, pineapples (fresh and packaged), grapes, strawberries, and other fresh and frozen Inc., said Tuesday that it has signed the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement. Under the voluntary agreement, all participants must adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. established good agricultural practices The term Good Agricultural Practices can refer to any collection of specific methods, which when applied to agriculture, produce results that are in harmony with the values of the proponents of those practices. and food safety guidelines. Dole said it has always used good agricultural practices in all its growing operations, and the company has been a strong supporter of the agreement as a standard for the industry. Dole has taken food safety one step further by applying the California standards in all states where its leafy greens are grown. The California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement will set mandatory and specific standards for leafy greens supply; the California Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
Wal-Mart suit goes forward SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest private employer, must face a class-action lawsuit alleging as many as 1.5 million female employees were discriminated against in pay and promotions. The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upholds a 2004 federal judge's decision to let the nation's largest class- action employment discrimination lawsuit go to trial, possibly exposing the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailing powerhouse to billions of dollars in damages. Wal-Mart said it would ask the court to rehear re·hear tr.v. re·heard , re·hear·ing, re·hears 1. To hear again. 2. Law To give a new hearing to (a case) by the same court. Verb 1. the case with the same three-judge panel or with 15 judges, a move likely to idle the case for months. Cisco profit up almost 40% SAN FRANCISCO -- Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. Inc.'s second-quarter profit surged nearly 40 percent as the world's largest maker of networking gear benefited from equipment upgrades to support bandwidth-hogging video downloads. The company also raised its revenue guidance for the current quarter, apparently quashing near-term fears about slowing growth as its customers complete the most extensive round of network upgrades since the pre-Y2K scramble. Cisco shares jumped nearly 5 percent in extended-session trading. For the quarter ended Jan. 27, Cisco's net income was $1.9 billion, or 31 cents per share Cents per share The amount of a mutual fund's dividend or capital gains distributions that a shareholder will receive for each share owned. , compared with $1.4 billion, or 22 cents per share, for the same period last year. Excluding one-time charges, Cisco said Tuesday it earned $2.1 billion for the quarter, or 33 cents per share. Launch platform heading home LONG BEACH -- Sea Launch Co.'s oceangoing o·cean·go·ing adj. Made or used for ocean voyages. Adj. 1. oceangoing - used on the high seas; "seafaring vessels" seafaring, seagoing marine - relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea platform Odyssey was en route back to its home port under its own power Monday, despite being engulfed in a massive explosion of a rocket last week. The company has said damage to the platform was limited. The Odyssey, a converted oil drilling platform, is an essential element of the international Sea Launch partnership. An investigation was under way to determine why the Zenit-3SL rocket blew up on the platform. |
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