| Jean Coutu Post First-Quarter Loss on Rite-Aid Costs (Update7) | | Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:57:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Jean Coutu Group Inc., the drugstore chain selling its U.S. Brooks and Eckerd pharmacies to Rite Aid Corp., said it lost $108.8 million because it wrote down assets from the sale and incurred restructuring costs. The first-quarter net loss was 42 cents a share in the three months through Aug. 26 compared with profit of $11.1 million, or 4 cents, a year earlier, the Longueuil, Quebec-based company said today in a statement. Revenue increased 3.8 percent to $2.79 billion from $2.68 billion. Coutu Group wrote down $120 million from the sale and had restructuring costs of $6.4 million. The company agreed on Aug. 24 to sell its 5,100 U.S. stores to Rite Aid for $2.54 billion in cash and shares, giving Coutu Group a 32 percent stake in the third-biggest U.S.... | |
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| | | Maoists get classes in giving first aid | | Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:57:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | ROURKELA, Aug. 29: The Maoists in the district are training its cadres in medical skills needed during emergencies and for this, they have sent some of their members to various private nursing homes in Rourkela. Intelligence report forwarded by the local police to the police headquarters mentions that the educated members of MCC are getting trained in giving injection, administering saline, minor operations, stitches and basic expertise in pathology. Once they were through, the radicals would join other cadres in the jungles of Saranda. It is a common knowledge that the deep forest of Sarada is a safe heaven for the ultras. And during their stay in jungles, these cadres are infected with various diseases and shifted to various nursing homes in Rourkela for treatment. Those injured in encounters with police also get treatment in these hospitals.... | |
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| | | Sunbathers aid beached migrants | | Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 10:58:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Sunbathers at a beach on Spain's Canary Islands came to the aid of 88 African migrants whose boat ran aground, giving them food, water and blankets, authorities said. That boat was the last of three to arrive Sunday on the island of Tenerife, carrying a total of 205 migrants, including women and children. People on the beach rushed to help the Africans with whatever they could provide until police and Red Cross officials arrived. As the beachgoers waited for help to arrive, some drove all-terrain vehicles to the shore to transport the weakest to first aid. The boat was carrying 88 people, and two others vessels that washed ashore earlier in the day were carrying 35 and 82 people, the Interior Ministry office on the Canary Islands said.... | |
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| | | Financial first aid kit available at local banks | | Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 1:22:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | We live in a vulnerable world where it is likely that we will be affected by a disaster, yet many of us do not think to prepare our financial interests in advance, said Dennis Crawford of Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management. In addition to personal and family preparedness supplies that residents are advised to have on hand, organization of key financial records will help them be better prepared for an emergency. Victims of Hurricane Katrina often learned the hard way that collecting a few important documents was essential to starting on the difficult road to recovery, said Crawford. A useful guide called the Emergency Financial First Aid Kit, prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is now available at most banks in Jefferson County.... | |
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