Walgreen Co. (NYSE:WAG), the largest drug store chain in the U.S., and his Alliance Boots announced that they would form a strategic partnership that would likely lead to a merger.

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OsComp recently formed a strategic alliance with Global Partners LP, a publicly traded energy logistics and marketing master limited partnership based in Waltham, Mass.

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David Marshall, a vice president at the Greensboro Partnership, which was formed in 2005 from the merger of Greensboro Economic Development Alliance, Action Greensboro, and the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, says the Partnership has developed a strategic plan that focuses on transforming Greater Greensboro from a traditional manufacturing-based economy to a knowledge-based economy.

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