The Swedish furniture giant said sales were stopped in late March, and tests confirmed the contamination on Friday.

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Financial firms such as Smith Barney or Northwestern Mutual will provide their employees with all the necessary education and training that they need in order to pass the requisite tests, as well as thorough sales and product training.

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Venter is long gone, the Bloomberg-data-sales concept failed, so the company is now focusing on various tests sold to doctors.

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The firm has halted sales of its Europe-supplied meatballs in Hong Kong city to conduct tests, says Oriental Daily News.

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Gordon Liu of Peking University says about 40% of hospital revenues typically come from such sales, with another 40-50% from services such as diagnostic tests and treatments.

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The white paper, The Power of Like 2: How Social Marketing Works, follows up an initial study last year, this time with control tests on Facebook that isolated the actual impact of Facebook ads on sales, both online and in physical stores.

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GestSure, which is bootstrapped, has made sales to hospitals in Canada, Mr. Tremaine said, and is in pilot tests in U.S. hospitals, including the Mayo Clinic, he said.

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Merck is conducting two other large tests of Vytorin as part of the joint venture, under which the companies split the development responsibilities and sales for Vytorin and Zetia.

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