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Dames & Moore Group said its board elected Arthur Darrow chairman of the Los Angeles-based engineering, consulting and environmental services company, succeeding George Leal. Darrow, 55, will continue as chief executive, a position he has held since January 1995.

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Property manager and real estate investment company Los Angeles-based Kennedy-Wilson Inc. reported net income for the second quarter of $202,000, or 5 cents a diluted share, compared with $149,000 before charges, or 4 cents, a year ago. Revenue increased 63%, to $6.5 million from $4 million a year ago.

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Needham, Mass.-based Designs Inc., the operator of 121 retail clothing stores, will buy 25 outlet stores from Levi’s Only Stores Inc., a unit of San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co., for about $12 million. The purchase consists of 16 Dockers Outlet stores and nine Levi’s Outlet stores in the East.

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Palo Alto-based Incyte Pharmaceuticals Inc. said it will buy Hexagen, a closely held British research company, for about $41 million as it seeks to keep pace with rivals in the race to map the human genetic code.

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Kia Motors Corp.’s U.S. unit, based in Irvine, said it will delay opening about 30 dealerships in the Midwest because of regional staff shortages, slowing the South Korean auto maker’s effort to step up its U.S. marketing.