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CINCINNATI (AP) — Lisa Williams has never liked sorting through coupons, and she no longer has to at Kroger Co. grocery stores. Every few weeks, coupons arrive in Williams' Elizabethtown, Ky., mailbox for items she usually loads into her cart:...

If you're a coffee addict like me, the following is truly news you can use. Kraft Foods Inc. reduced the price of some Maxwell House and Yuban ground coffees after green coffee prices fell. The reduction of 10 cents a pound on Maxwell House and Yuban...

Kraft Foods Inc. said Monday that it has tapped a former Coca-Cola Co. executive, 44-year-old Michael A. Clarke, to serve as president of the Northfield packaged-food company's Kraft Europe operation. The president-Europe post has been vacant since the...

Cadbury ordered a recall of its Chinese-made products Monday, saying tests doubted their safety. Two U.S. food makers were meanwhile investigating Indonesian claims that high traces of the industrial chemical melamine had been found in Chinese-made...

In this nation of bulging nibblers, it appears we're able to resist a big bag of Oreo cookies about as well as a hungry hound can keep off an untended platter of ham. But that's OK. Who needs the quaint, pre-obesity epidemic concept of self-control...

Now that children are back in school, their worries may include homework, teachers and that pesky bully. But parents? They're leery about lunches. With food prices rising and packages shrinking, parents are wondering how to stretch food budgets. Children...

For the second time in eight years, control of the Los Angeles Times changed hands Thursday, passing from a staid Chicago conglomerate to a private company headed by an unpredictable and colorful billionaire, in a debt-heavy deal that creates tremendous...

Q: Should I feel confident about my shares of 3M? I hear good and bad. -- F.F., via the Internet A: The global conglomerate with diverse products such as Scotch tape, Post-It Notes, drug-delivery systems and roofing materials is feeling the pinch of...

Monday: -- Earnings: American Financial Group Inc.; CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.; CNA Financial Corp.; Hertz Global Holdings Inc.; Humana Inc.; Kellogg Co.; Loews Corp.; Pitney Bowes Inc.; Principal Financial Group Inc.; RadioShack Corp. Tuesday: --...

Edwin Traisman, a food researcher who helped create Cheez Whiz and, as an early McDonald's franchise owner in Wisconsin, co-developed the freezing process used to make McDonald's French fries, has died. He was 91. Traisman, a resident of Monona, Wis.,...

If you invest in the stocks of consumer-related companies that you personally admire, you can't go wrong. Take Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., for example. Well, maybe not Krispy Kreme, whose stock tanked 66 percent in 2004 and 54 percent in 2005. It has...

When the National Biscuit Co. launched the Oreo in 1912 as part of a trio of cookies, the company told sales managers it had high hopes for the Oreo's two sister products but did not brag about the black-and-white treat. Despite this inauspicious start,...