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Amazon Reports Over 19,000, Or 1.44%, Of US Frontline Employees Had COVID-19

Amazon.com Inc has said that more than 19,000 of its US frontline workers contracted the coronavirus this year, or 1.44% of the total, a disclosure sought...

Meatpackers In The Americas Accelerate Automation After Outbreaks, Lagging Europe

As coronavirus outbreaks among workers closed several Canadian meat plants, Henry Mizrahi saw a different future for Lesters Foods, the hot dog factory he...

Costco Beats Estimates As High COVID-19 Costs Weigh On Shares

Costco Wholesale Corp recorded high coronavirus-related costs for the second straight quarter, overshadowing its better-than-expected results and sending t...

IGC Cuts Forecast For 2020/21 Global Corn Crop

The International Grains Council (IGC) on Thursday trimmed its forecast for global corn (maize) production in the 2020/21 season, partly reflecting a reduc...

Saputo Dairy UK To Launch Cathedral City In The US

Saputo Dairy UK has announced plans to launch its iconic Cathedral City cheese brand in the United States by Thanksgiving holiday in November of this year....

US Approves Anheuser-Busch Deal To Buy Craft Brew Alliance

The US Justice Department has said that it has approved Anheuser-Busch's plan to buy the shares of Craft Brew Alliance that it does not already own. The...

Coca-Cola Bottlers Are Feeling Flat, Even As US Grocery Sales Sparkle

Martin Williams' great-grandfather founded their Coca-Cola distribution business in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1907, just a handful of years after Coke...

Biden Warns UK On Brexit: No Trade Deal Unless You Respect N.Irish Peace Pact

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden warned the United Kingdom that it must honour Northern Ireland's 1998 peace agreement as it withdraws from t...