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...“There’s been growing demand for V-neck sweaters, with searches for the style increasing by 10 per cent this year versus 2023,” says Daniel Todd, buying director of Mr Porter, where sales of the style have...
...Earlier this month it announced it would buy the Winn-Dixie and Harveys supermarket chains, expanding in a market where big stores still reign supreme....
...He added that Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive and founder, “deserves a tremendous amount of credit for pushing the rock up the hill”....
...(WSJ) David Jones has agreed a A$2.15bn (US$2bn) takeover by South African retailer Woolworths, which trumps a merger approach from rival Australian department store group Myer....
...Winn-Dixie, based in Jacksonville, Florida, has 480 stores and about 46,000 staff in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi....
...The group sells 6m golf balls a year in 88 stores and its 2010 revenues of €100m are expected to rise this year....
...It will also make the V&A the de facto hub of the area. “We wanted to make the V&A completely accessible,” Levete explains, “to make it easy just to drift in.”...
...The works, mounted coral and driftwood, sold for $50,000 to Guillaume Houzé of the Lafayette family, for the department store’s collection....
...About one-third of Reed’s sales are made through mainstream US supermarkets such as Kroger, Safeway and Winn-Dixie, as well as discounters such as Costco, but he would like almost all of them to be....
...Winn-Dixie, the regional chain that was previously Publix’s main competitor, has fared less well....
...The pressure from Wal-Mart contributed to the bankruptcy this year of Winn-Dixie, a regional supermarket trading in the south and east....
...Winn Dixie, a smaller regional supermarket chain, cited pressure from Wal-Mart’s supercenters as one of the factors that led it to seek bankruptcy protection in February....
...Winn-Dixie Stores defaulted on $300m of debt. The only non-US based defaulter was Concordia Bus of Sweden, which missed an interest payment on $207m of bonds....
...The intense competition in the grocery sector was underlines last month when Winn-Dixie, a regional supermarket chain that operates in the south and south east, filed for bankruptcy....
...Winn-Dixie, a grocer, announced a quarterly loss but shares rose 0.3 per cent to $6.41 as investors took heart from the fact that it was narrower than expected....
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