The parent of the Red Lobster and Olive Garden restaurant chains posted third-quarter net income of $106.4 million, or 72 cents a share, compared with $105.3 million, or 67 cents a share, a year ago.
Wal-Mart Stores is moving its top lobbyist in Washington to its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, where he will become vice president of corporate affairs.
Second-quarter net income was $61.7 million, or 41 cents a share, compared with $55.1 million, or 35 cents a share, a year ago.
Darden Restaurants' stock fell today on hundreds of reports of illness and three people hospitalized after eating at an Olive Garden near Indianapolis.