You might say that Walmart would never, ever start hawking its own e-readers, but crazier things have happened -- Best Buy has an entire brand devoted to in-house goods, and Amazon itself has expanded from an online storefront for laundry detergent and bestselling novels to a bona fide hardware mainstay.

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It performs all types of clinical tests but also touts itself as a pioneer in gene-oriented tests for things such as HIV resistance and cervical cancer screening.

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This manifests itself in, among other things, an excessive love of deep-fried Mars bars and other health-sapping delicacies.

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Well things are changing - or so says the management - and Brierley Investments is in the process of reinventing itself.

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