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Anheuser Busch Or Molson Coors: Which Is The Better Bet?
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 3:55pm | 493Beer is one of the oldest drinks known to man. Researchers have found evidence of the beverage as far back as the 5th millennium BC, in the regions of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Americans also have a long and storied history with their beers, and it's no surprise many beer breweries are...
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Feast Your Eyes - 7 Restaurant Chains To Watch In 2014
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 1:43pm | 86Resturants are hard work, for owners, managers and staff. And they can be a risky business, with a failure rate of about 60 percent within the first three years. But there are also eating establishments whose popularity have turned them into major companies and household names, both in the U.S...
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Is Wendy's Success at McDonald's Expense?
Friday, January 3, 2014 - 4:50pm | 658Wendy's (NASDAQ: WEN) may describe itself as “the world's third-largest quick-service hamburger company,” but the Dublin, Ohio-based company has been growing and nibbling away at the market share of fast-food giant McDonald's (NYSE: MCD). According to the restaurant industry web site QSR, 2013...
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Will Coffee Prices Continue to Tumble in 2014?
Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 2:56pm | 596What will 2014 mean for the price of your daily cup (or two) of coffee? If you purchase that morning beverage or afternoon pick-up from your local barista, you probably won't see much of a change. But a continuing oversupply of coffee on a global scale probably means supermarket and wholesale...
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Starbucks vs. Dunkin' Donuts: Which Is The Better Bet?
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 - 5:18pm | 674Starbucks is everywhere! While that cry became a rampant cliché in American pop culture, and fodder for many a late-night talk show monologue, Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) often seems to be on virtually every corner of every street in metropolitan America. While exaggerated, that claim...
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Some Big Companies Take Advantage Of Christmas Day Shopping
Thursday, December 26, 2013 - 4:36pm | 562Last-minute shoppers and diners enjoyed the luxury of some of the nation’s biggest retailers being open on Christmas day. An estimated fifty 50 million Americans took advantage of these openings, giving the already-inflated retail sector a boost. According to SpendingPulse, retail sales from...
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Whole Foods Rejects Popular Yogurt Brand Because of GMO
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 5:27pm | 300Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM) will reportedly stop selling America's most popular brand of Greek yogurt, Chobani, early next year, because the yogurt contains genetically modified ingredients. The Wall Street Journal reports Whole Foods is removing Chobani to make room for other brands of...
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Apple Submits Patent for Restaurant Reservation System
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 5:35pm | 372Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has filed for a patent application for an ordering and reservation system that could work with various Apple iDevices. According to the Patently Apple web site, the company's patent “generally relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media...
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Is Coca-Cola 'Faith-Based' Investing at its Finest?
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 5:27pm | 390Writing in the January 2014 issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, columnist James Glassman picked Coca-Cola as a favorite for 2014. Although it did not perform as well as other selections for 2013, Glassman described Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) as, "a classic 'faith-based stock' that is a...
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Sysco to Purchase US Foods in $8.2 Billion Acquisition
Monday, December 9, 2013 - 2:19pm | 360A major consolidation in the food service industry, following word on Monday that Sysco Corp. (NYSE: SYY) would purchase rival US Foods. According to a press statement, Sysco will pay around $3.5 billion in cash and stock for US Foods, and will assume about $4.7 billion of US Foods' debt. The...
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Time to Chow Down on this High-Dividend, Low-Debt Takeover Candidate?
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 5:16pm | 382In February of this year Landry's, which operates McCormick & Schmicks, Chart House and several other restaurant chains, made an offer of $22 a share for Ark Restaurant Corp. (NASDAQ: ARKR). Ark Restaurants, which owns and operates 19 restaurants and bars, along with 22 fast food concepts...
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Strong Stuff: Diageo Holds Up Well
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 4:54pm | 598Every investor is looking for that bullet-proof stock -- the one that holds up against any and all market and economic conditions while others plunge. As detailed before in a previous article on Benzinga, these equities with low betas have been proven to be high reward investment vehicles over...
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Let's Drink to That: U.S. is World's Largest Wine Market, with Sales Expected to Expand
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 4:17pm | 517It's been a very good year for wine and wine sales. Sales of domestic and foreign wines in the U.S. last year were reportedly up two percent compared to 2011 – to a record 360.1 million cases with an estimated retail value of $34.6 billion. California wines make up nearly 60 percent of overall...
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Make it Quick: How Some of the Fast Food Stocks Have Been Performing
Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 4:53pm | 603For some time now, fast food stocks havebeen a relatively safe stock bet for investors. But we've recently seen many of the top fast food brands overhauling their images in a number of ways, not the least of which has been revamping their menus from top to bottom. Some have even taken the...
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Reports of Contamination Shake Spice Industry
Friday, November 1, 2013 - 3:18pm | 770America's spice industry is nothing to sneeze at. Research and Markets reports the industry's revenue came in at $8.4 billion during 2011, with an estimated gross profit of over 35 percent. So it's serious business when a new FDA report says that 12 percent of spices imported to the U.S. were...