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General Motors has pronounced itself pleased with its elaborate efforts to draw attention to the three commercials it bought for its Chevrolet division during the Super Bowl.

The fact that Celera is seeking government grants could reflect a need to find new uses for the hundreds of sequencers it bought for its human genome effort.

The company's biggest headache has been its diet drug, Dexatrim, which it bought for $95 million from Thompson Medical Co. in 1998.

In fact, Colette nearly sold out of more than 600 pieces it bought for spring and has already sold a third of its fall orders.

In July 2001, Time Inc. made its first major European acquisition, the British publishing giant IPC Media, which it bought for $1.6 billion.

Kickin Chicken sold only two of the 12 cases of chicken it bought for Memorial Day.

The figure represents about 2.1percentt of the volume of goods it bought for Marriott.

The company also benefited from improved beef earnings at IBP, which it bought for $4.4 billion.

In 2007 Rio nearly choked on Alcan, a Canadian aluminium firm it bought for a disastrously expensive $38 billion.

Mattel is trying to sell the Learning Company, which it bought for $3.6 billion last May.

The company also will take a charge related to its acquisition of Omgpop, a mobile game maker that it bought for $183 million in March.