NAME SWITCH FOR CASUAL MALE Ca...

NAME SWITCH FOR CASUAL MALE

Casual Male, possessor of Casual Male Big & Tall stores, announced Wednesday it has changed store names to Casual Male XL to better consider its customers' identification as athletes and to avoid any negative association with obesity. Casual Male has 17 Chicago area stores and three in Northwest Indiana.

FORD CONSIDERS $1 BIL. PLANT UPGRADES

Ford Motor Co may invest as long as $1 billion in Michigan to make factories more efficient and foundation development of hybrid vehicles. Nothing has been finalized, Executive Vice President Mark Fields said. Gov Jennifer Granholm said state officials agreed to provide Ford $151 million in incentives through the whole extent of 20 years if it makes the investment, which could "save 13000 jobs" she said.

BOEING TENNESSEE WORKERS STRIKE

Boeing Co said about 300 workers went upon strike at a plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn after complaints about pay and language in a just discovered contract the company proposed. Members of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers discarded a three-year contract offer from Chicago-based Boeing Saturday. The strike started Sunday. Boeing shares ferocious 69 cents to $77.16 in modern York Stock Exchange composite trading.

WAL-MART OK UNIONS IN CHINA

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said it will allow employee in China to unionize following criticism that the company exploits lax employee protection in the geographical division to keep costs low. Wal-Mart, which occupys 23,000 people in the nation will let the All-China Federation of Trade Unions plant up branches in all its exits Wal-Mart's U.S. employees aren't unionized. The company's shares relentless 56 cents, or 1.3 percent to $4390 in novel York Stock Exchange composite trading.

connoisseur STALLS NORTHWEST STRIKE RULING

A federal bankruptcy connoisseur said Wednesday he would conduct at a later date forward a motion to bar Northwest Airlines flight attendants from a planned strike that could have disrupted flights. U Bankruptcy referee Allan Gropper heard arguments from one side of to the other moves to prevent any exemplar of strike action, which the flight attendants plan to begin Tuesday. It was unclear when the arbiter would rule on the motions. Northwest Airlines Corp. said a strike at flight attendants could force the company into liquidation.

TOYOTA, LEXUS TOP JD POWER catalogue of persons

Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. won top honors in eight categories of the JD Power vehicle dependability subject of attention Lexus, Toyota's luxury brand, was the top-ranked nameplate for the 12th consecutive year.

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