WALGREEN

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Walgreen Co has reached a $22.4 million settlement with the New York attorney general resolving claims that a unit improperly billed the government for reimbursement for a pediatric drug.

(Reuters) - U.S. drugstore chain operator Walgreen Co reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by a record number of prescriptions filled, sending its shares up 3.6 percent.

(Reuters) - U.S. drugstore chain operator Walgreen Co reported its biggest jump in quarterly sales in three years, helped by higher prescription sales, sending its shares up more than 3 percent in premarket trading.

(Reuters) - U.S. drugstore chain operator Walgreen Co reported a 6.2 percent rise in quarterly sales, helped by higher prescription sales, sending its shares up more than 3 percent in premarket trading.

By Soyoung Kim and Greg Roumeliotis

BOSTON (Reuters) - CtW Investment Group, an adviser to union pension funds, called on Walgreen Co to provide more details about a change in projected earnings and questioned the U.S. drugstore chain operator's appointment of an activist investor to its board.

BOSTON (Reuters) - CtW Investment Group, an adviser to union pension funds, called on Walgreen Co to provide more details about a change in projected earnings and questioned the U.S. drugstore chain operator's appointment of an activist investor to its board.

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Sam Forgione

By Emma Thomasson and Sruthi Ramakrishnan

By Emma Thomasson and Sruthi Ramakrishnan