CHICAGO -- Philip Morris USA will raise prices on its top-selling Marlboro and other cigarette brands, a company spokesman said on Monday. The Richmond, Va.-based unit of Altria Group Inc. is raising the price it charges wholesalers for Marlboro, Basic and L&M cigarettes by 6 cents a pack and the rest of its brands by 8 cents.

BALTIMORE -- A group of ExxonMobil gas-station operators in Maryland was in federal court yesterday to block the petroleum giant from selling its stations to other buyers without giving the members of the group a first chance to buy the stations for themselves.

DALLAS -- To complement its steadily growing line of 7-Select private-label products, as well as the fresh-baked-daily items in its bakery case, 7-Eleven Inc. is adding 15 packaged bakery items under the company’s private-label brand.