Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The concrete evokes the Brutalist architecture of the former Yugoslavia, where Draga Obradovic grew up, while the glossy resin, says her husband, Aurel K Basedow, has a “jewellery aspect” that provides a...
...The company, which also runs Circle K convenience stores in Vietnam, has been working with Kamakura Foods to bring its vending machine system into the south-east Asian country....
...On the street after the runway show, two American women at the back of the crowd strained to see over the melee as K-pop star Felix walked the rope line flanked by bodyguards. “What is this about?”...
...It’s partly due to the rising market in South Korea, where K-pop stars openly experiment with make-up, or the YouTubers and TikTok influencers who showcase colourful full “looks”....
...This is an audio transcript of the Behind the Money podcast episode: The rise of the ‘F@$K It’ investor Michela Tindera At the beginning of the pandemic, Chris Zettler had a lot of time on his hands....
...Grocery stores have increased their investments in self-checkout kiosks that replace human cashiers, and more convenience stores including Circle K are experimenting with the computer vision technology pioneered...
...Carrefour must appear cheap to the Canadian fuel and convenience stores empire, owner of the Circle K chain....
...Couche-Tard, which owns the Circle K brand, had made the approach fairly recently, said one person briefed about the matter, while a second said Carrefour needed time to study the idea....
...The intervention by Bruno Le Maire, which came only a day after talks between the two companies were revealed, are certain to complicate matters for the Quebec-based company best known for its Circle K stores...
...The 72-year-old entrepreneur was sent packing back to Laval, Québec where he founded Couche-Tard, best known for its Circle K chain, in 1980....
...Couche-Tard, which owns the Circle-K convenience store chain and has a market value of $37bn, has been clamouring for a mega-deal for a while, having spent years growing through acquisitions....
...At first, he went to big names such as Nordstrom, the US luxury department-store chain....
...Its same-store sales plunged 22 per cent in March, then 39 per cent in April. No McDonald’s boss has been dealt a tougher hand....
...Couche-Tard has replaced fuel pumps with electric vehicle chargers in some of its Circle K gas stations in Scandinavia and launched a home and workplace charging service in Norway....
...Mr Schram’s most recent executive job was as head of Europe for Circle K, the convenience store group that took over Statoil’s petrol station business through its Canadian owners, and he wrote a book The...
...The regulator initiated enforcement action against some Walgreens outlets and against rival Circle K Stores, warning the retailers that it would vigorously enforce the law....
...When she hailed a black cab to escape, he jumped in as well, then followed her into the Apple Store and pressured her to go for a drink with him....
...Donnie, a.k.a bitcoin Dad, puts his successes down to careful research, “patience” and avoiding the trap of obsessive, leveraged day trading....
...The retail outlets at the company’s network of service stations are to be rebranded as Circle K, which Couche-Tard is developing into its global brand....
...The Circle is so dominant that it manufactures its own tablets, holds the details of millions of users and stores all data in the cloud....
...It also boasts soft leather chairs, including one occupied earlier this week by a retiree who gave her name as Barbara K....
...– Oil market veteran Philip K. Verleger sets out the case that inventories of crude oil, at least in the US, seem to have become one of the assets replacing treasury bills....
...When the financial crisis stuck and stores of value everywhere became compromised, an epic dash for safety to protect wealth kicked off. This unleashed something of a vicious circle....
...Uny Co, the department store operator, climbed 6.6 per cent to Y747 after launching a tender offer for the remainder of the shares in its Circle K Sunkus convenience store unit....
...“But with new stores and restaurants constantly cropping up, H Street is now luring a different kind of clientele.”...
International Edition