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		<title>The buzz on social business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ANDREW MCUTCHEN &#8211; They give a fork&#8230; Kinfolk Cafe co-founders Jarrod Biffra (left), Elliot Costello (centre) and Asuka Hara (right).
There&#8217;s a mild buzz down the telephone line as I talk to young businessman Elliot Costello, but it&#8217;s only partially explained by the poor connection.
Costello is walking among the glass canyons of Melbourne&#8217;s CBD attending a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee giant embroiled in bitter battle over beans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RUTH POLLARD &#8211; Accused of breaking agreement&#8230; Nabi Saleh and Peter Irvine. Photo: Jim Rice
The coffee giant Gloria Jean&#8217;s is facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit that threatens to lift the lid on one of the most secretive companies in Australia.
Owned and run by the Hillsong Church elder Nabi Saleh and the high-profile church member Peter Irvine, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mebusiness.com.au/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Discounts are sending retailers broke, says Gerry Harvey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lema Samandar &#8211; AAP
Gerry Harvey, CEO of Harvey Norman, who started his career as adoor-to-door vacuum salesman. Picture: Stephen Cooper Source: Herald Sun
INCREASED discounting of goods in the retail sector is sending some retailers broke, Harvey Norman chairman Gerry Harvey says. 
Despite posting a favourable first half profit result, Mr Harvey said his Harvey Norman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prudential in $28bn AIG bid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From correspondents in London -  AFP 
BRITISH insurer Prudential is in talks to buy AIA, the Asian arm of US giant AIG, for $US25 billion ($A28.14 billion).
Prudential is in talks about a takeover that would be one of the biggest-ever foreign acquisitions made by a British company&#8221;, Sky News channel said.
The insurer has been examining a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mebusiness.com.au/?p=88</link>
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		<title>RBA rate rises hit home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS ZAPPONE

Update Australians took out fewer home loans than expected in November as the Reserve Bank&#8217;s interest rate rises took effect.
Total home loans slumped 5.6 per cent, seasonally adjusted, to 59,516, worse than the 0.5 per cent fall economists had been expecting. The result for the previous month, October, was also revised lower to a [...]]]></description>
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