A group of Toyota volunteers has applied the Toyota assembly system to packing hundreds of Thanksgiving food baskets to be given away by the Society of St. Vincent DePaul in Cincinnati.

Some 20% of the cookies and apple pies sold by McDonald's are at breakfast, and one of the biggest "limited time" product roll-outs in 2012 will be McBites popcorn-size chicken snack. Dunkin' Donuts sells chicken salad sandwiches at 9 a.m. Half the products Denny's sells are breakfast items. Kellogg has marketed Special K Chocolatey Delight and Rice Krispies as after-dinner-snacks. Twenty percent of people who buy Stonyfield yogurt eat it instead of dinner.

Grey has won creative ad duties for Mike's Hard Lemonade after a review, according to people familiar with the matter, as the flavored malt beverage maker turns to its fourth agency in four years.

Ann Inc., formerly Ann Taylor, reported a 33.4% rise in quarterly net income to $32.3 million, beating analysts' estimates.

Hybrid cars, not a new phenomenon as Bob Casey at the Henry Ford Museum will demonstrate (the museum has a 1916 Woods on display), and they also aren't a big slice of the U.S. auto market. But they are a big part of the Los Angeles Auto Show.

Nike rolled out Kevin Durant's Zoom KD IV last Tuesday. But the NBA season wasn't doing some of the marketing heavy lifting. On launch day, Durant was among the locked-out players who filed a class-action antitrust lawsuit against the league.

Gap Inc. reported Thursday that profit for the third quarter dropped 36% to $193 million, compared with $303 million a year earlier, as the retailer continued a deep discounting trend and encountered rising production costs. Still, results beat analysts' expectations.

Chicago candy maker Tootsie Roll Industries is suing a small footwear company selling the Footzyrolls shoe brand. According to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Illinois, Rollashoe, which makes rollable ballet slippers called Footzyrolls, is infringing on the brand name of Chicago-based Tootsie Roll. Tootsie Roll, which made $521 million in sales last year, alleged that the $2 million Footzyrolls brand will confuse and "deceive" consumers into thinking that the shoes are associated with Tootsie Roll's portfolio of products.

Porsche is building a new North American headquarters in Atlanta that will open in late 2013. Among other oddities, its atrium will be shaped to resemble the shield adorning Cayennes, Panameras, Caymans, 911s and Boxsters. In Los Angeles, Porsche plans to build a customer experience center in the vicinity of Los Angeles International and Long Beach airports.

Research In Motion (RIM) has instituted a big price cut on its PlayBook digital pad in Canada. BestBuy, Walmart, Staples and Future Shop have all chopped $300 off the price of the slate in Canada. The sale lasts from Nov. 16 to the 22nd in Quebec, and the 18th to the 24th in the rest of Canada. That brings the price to around $200 for the 16GB PlayBook. The WiFi-only 32GB and 64GB models are also being discounted to $300 and $400, respectively.