Deutsche Bank has hired yet another Merrill Lynch banker, Jim Ratigan, who will become a managing director in the bank's industrial sector mergers and acquisitions group in the Americas.

Late Thursday the company said it will pay the dividend on July 15 to shareholders of record July 1. Republic Services also said its first-quarter profit climbed 49 percent, helped by its recent purchase of Allied Waste Industries Inc.

Republic Services Inc. said its first-quarter profit surged 49 percent, helped by its recent purchase of Allied Waste Industries Inc. Late Thursday the trash hauling company said it earned $113 million, or 30 cents per share, compared with $76.1 million, or 41 cents per share, a year ago.

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Allied Waste Industries , which operates the BFI landfill on Mabelvale Pike, agrees that there have been odor problems at the landfill and it pinpoints waste from shale drilling. Here's the company release on what it is doing about it.