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Pharma companies certainly seem to see the need to embrace new payment models. After all, they are facing unprecedented pressure from lawmakers to bring down the prices of their products.
Even as some Republicans criticized Trump for his comments about the weekend violence in Charlottesville, Va., key players suggested that the push for tax reform would proceed apace. Big businesses are putting "100 percent support behind, basically the consolidated Republican position," said Grover Norquist, a conservative activist who as head of Americans for Tax Reform has pushed for a reform of the tax code for years.
With 60 to 70 percent of all quick-service business occurring at the drive-thru window, it is no wonder more restaurants are working to add it to their concept, or expanding the number of windows to serve more customers. [More..]
Friday morning’s news that Kraft Heinz Co. made an unsuccessful bid to acquire Unilever PLC, while certainly noteworthy, was hardly a surprise in today’s mercilessly competitive consumer product goods business.
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