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...H Mart, the Asian grocery store chain, reported $1.5bn in sales last year, with 102 locations across the country....
...The seemingly simple aim of creating a walkway along the Chicago River has taken 16 years (so far), involved legislation enacted through Congress and a complex series of approvals from the Army Corps of...
...And they don’t have to management to run them anymore, necessarily: We completed two large acquisitions, spending almost $18 billion to purchase all of NV Energy and a major interest in H. J. Heinz....
...early stages, the papers have attracted initial interest from a range of parties, including Charles and David Koch, the politically conservative industrialist billionaire brothers, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp...
...The writer was opposition research counsel for George H.W. Bush’s 1988 campaign...
...“H&M is much more a global brand than a US brand,” says Prof Taylor. “This is the beginning of a trend towards the Super Bowl becoming more of a venue for global brands.”...
Hedge fund run by William Ackman makes railway investment
...over From elsewhere: Google, according to PaidContent, has “declared war” against the web’s dominant video format, following an announcement that its Chrome web browser will phase out support for the H.264...
...And as Bond Buyer reports on Friday (H/T Bond Girl) it looks like the retail investors’ “smart money” is sticking, not quitting....
...Previously he had been employed by the family patriarch, Joseph Kennedy, at his Merchandise Mart in Chicago, then the largest commercial building in the world....
...Mr Buffett himself has pointed to retail giant Wal-Mart as a family business that successfully opted for professional managers after the death of Sam Walton, its founder, in 1992....
...Chaired by Zhu Rongji (Premier of China 1998-2003) and H....
...The six studies are: • “Clearinghouse, margin requirements and systemic risk” – to be researched by Jeffrey H....
...Li & Fung, which supplies goods for retailers including Wal-mart of the US, gained 1.6 per cent to HK$35.25 after delivering a bullish outlook for its revenues....
...(H/T Bryce Elder) Related links: Wal-Mart Looks to Bolster Suppliers – Wall Street Journal...
...(H/T @StockJockey) Related links: Shaq wants to attack foreclosures – FT Alphaville...
...CKE Restaurants rose 27.6 per cent to $11.37 after Thomas H Lee, the private equity firm, said it would buy the restaurant chain for $619m cash and assume $309m of its debt....
...A bit like the rush on H&M dresses when Kate Moss appears in one of their cheap and cheerful off-the-peg numbers....
...The good news perhaps for those not part of this fan club is that the American economy cannot be in total collapse if Wal-Mart is still expanding....
...The index excludes Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, which no longer reports monthly sales numbers....
...Shares in the company, which owns Kay in the US and H Samuel in the UK, climbed 10.8 per cent to $27.17....
...Giant Eagle, in the midwest, has launched a price campaign billed “another way to save”....
...Meanwhile, profits at H&R Block, the tax preparation company, topped Wall Street estimates, in spite of falling revenues....
...Wal-Mart focuses its site-to-store service on merchandise that is only available online....
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