It also set up its Global Nutition Group to penetrate the market for health foods.

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"We are seeing a big '80s influence, but modernized for fall, " says Roseanne Morrison, fashion director at the Doneger Group, a source of global market trends and merchandising strategies for the retail and fashion industry.

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"Lenovo is the first multi-national company to offer the Intel Learning Series classmate PC for the global education market, " said Kapil Wadhera, General Manager, Education Market Platform Group, Intel.

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Hertz Global ( HTZ) will purchase a smaller, mid-market rival, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group ( DTG).

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"Working together will significantly help speed this technology to market at a more affordable cost to our customers, " said Raj Nair, group vice president of global product development at Ford.

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