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* Avon Products Inc. will stop manufacturing jewelry, closing its last remaining plant in Puerto Rico and firing 320 workers to cut labor costs. The cosmetics company, which employs about 43,000 people worldwide, will contract with Asian manufacturers for jewelry.
* AMF Bowling Worldwide Inc. won a judge’s approval of a Chapter 11 recovery plan, clearing the way for the largest operator of bowling centers to complete its reorganization and come out of bankruptcy.
* Adobe Systems Inc., the maker of Acrobat digital publishing software, agreed to buy Canada’s money-losing Accelio Corp. for $72million in stock for its software that lets companies create and manage electronic forms.
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