| Guardian group denies bid for Chrysalis radio stations
Guardian Media Group has dismissed talk that it would bid for Chrysalis's radio stations after securing the future of its newspapers with the sale of almost half of its Trader Media wing to private equity house Apax Partners for £675m. The sale of a 49.9pc stake in Trader Media, which is home to classified advertising motor titles Auto Trader, Truck Trader and Bike Trader, values its prize asset at £1.35bn and provides the cash to support its loss-making Guardian and Observer newspapers. .
AutoMart Magazines Adds Carfax One Owner Highlights to Print ...
NORFOLK, Va.--AutoMart and Carfax today announced that, for the first time, consumers can easily identify Carfax One Owner cars listed in AutoMart's print publication. Anyone looking for their next dream car using AutoMart Magazines can look for the Carfax One Owner logo to recognize vehicles that have had only one owner. AutoMart is the industry's first publishing organization offering this service to used car shoppers. "Carfax and AutoMart have been working on this enhancement for nearly a year. Both dealers and consumers will benefit from this new process," said Skip Dowd, Vice President of AutoMart. "We are excited to offer this new information in a streamlined and automated process for our dealers and consumers." Earlier this year, AutoMart added the Carfax One Owner highlight to its online listings at AutoMart.com.
KERALA ROUNDUP
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Tourism has earned a record Rs 90bn in 2006 with over 6.2mn domestic tourists, a growth of 5.4% over the last year, and 428,000 foreign holidaymakers, a growth of 23.7%, visiting the state.
Kerala Tourism director Sanjay Kaul has said the state was expecting 10% increase in domestic and 22% international tourists this year.
The state, which expects an investment of Rs10bn, is also setting up a single window investor cell for facilitating investments into the state which will be functional by the end of the month.
“In the peak season, there is a shortage of 18,000 rooms in Kerala. It has to be doubled," Kaul said.
The state is being positioned as a 365-day holiday destination with a focus on the unexplored Malabar region. They include Kasargod, Kannur, Wayand, Kozhikode and Malappuram districts.
Clues to pet food recall traced to Chinese city
XUZHOU, China: U.S. investigators looking into the tainted pet food that killed at least 16 cats and dogs, sickened thousands of pets and led to a recall in North America have traced the problem to this bustling eastern city. Xuzhou is the home of Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development, a small agricultural products trader that U.S. regulators say was the source of the wheat gluten, distributed to major pet food suppliers in North America, that was at some point adulterated with a toxic chemical that sickened or killed the animals. Although U.S. and Chinese regulators are still investigating the matter, this city is already yielding clues about how the gluten may have been contaminated, and also exposing some of the challenges faced by China's emergence as a global agricultural products supplier.
Aim for hunger, hit poverty
As he backs his Frankenstein of a pickup truck to the curb, Curt Kinkead knows at least one person will be there to help him unload.Sally Howard, a retired beautician with a French manicure, strides up and tells him to load up a box of food into her walker's basket.“Another?" Kinkead asks. .
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