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...Big retailers including Target, Walmart and H&M have sold rainbow merchandise for roughly a decade with little pushback....
...The H Mart of the title is the name of a Korean supermarket....
...By the old border fence stood a row of rocks marked “K.P” on one side and “K.H” on the other — Kingdom of Prussia and Kingdom of Hanover....
...Mr Lindell said the online furniture retailer Wayfair and Texas grocery chain H-E-B were also dropping MyPillow. Neither company responded to a request for comment....
...The three joined from the S&P 400 benchmark of midsized companies and will switch places with tax software group H&R Block, Coty, a beauty company, and Kohls, a department store, which are dropping to the...
...It first came via his friend and tennis partner George H W Bush, a preppy East Coast figure turned Texan oilman. In 1964, Bush was running for the US Senate in Texas. Baker agreed to help....
...Mr Kohl’s Christmas Eve 1991 declaration in which Germany recognised Slovenia and Croatia as independent republics was made against the advice of the European Community, the UN, and US President George H...
...That is precisely what Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and their followers in Europe — Helmut Kohl, Bettino Craxi and, eventually, François Mitterrand too — would deliver....
...Macy’s and Kohl’s kicked off a disappointing quarter for department stores when they reported results last week....
...US diplomats were particularly alarmed by a phone call between Thatcher and President George H W Bush in February 1990, when she reportedly said the USSR was “an essential balance to German power”....
...Ralph Lauren, like other retailers, has seen its business hurt by a rise in online shopping and competition from fast fashion names like H&M and Zara....
...Nordstrom’s upbeat results follow disappointing earnings from rivals like Macy’s and Kohl’s....
...They have also faced pressure from the success of fast-fashion rivals like H&M and Zara, which mimic runway styles for a fraction of the cost....
...Basics that are cheap and cheerful, found at the likes of H&M or Zara, and the fancier stuff on a discount rack at, say, TJX have beaten the middlebrow fare of department and speciality stores....
...Kohl’s was also under pressure, falling 18.8 per cent to $41.52 after it cut its full-year earnings forecast....
...retailers such as TJX, and fast fashion chains such as Zara and H&M....
...These concerns pushed the S&P 500 department stores index, which includes just Nordstrom, Macy’s and Kohl’s, 37 per cent lower last year. mamta.badkar@ft.com Twitter: @mamtabadkar...
...– “Economic Historian: ‘Germany Was Biggest Debt Transgressor of 20th Century’”, Spiegel Online, June 21, 2011 (H/t Ed Harrison)...
...As for the special relationship with Washington, George H.W. Bush was quick to turn to a united Germany as Europe’s natural leader....
...’s Q2 $1.05 ($1.00) Ophir Energy H1 (FY estimate) -0.27p (-0.09p) Rank Group FY 12.09p (11.60p) Trading and sales updates H&M (Hennes & Mauritz) Imperial Tobacco ● The Maersk McKinney Møller – the...
...Along with Mrs Thatcher’s election in 1979, and Mr Reagan’s in 1980, Helmut Kohl took power in Germany in 1982 and Brian Mulroney in Canada in 1984....
...Chancellor Helmut Kohl recalls in his memoirs that Thatcher told a gathering of European leaders: “We beat the Germans twice and now they are back.”...
...However, Nathalie Kabiri, buyer at Marylebone boutique Kabiri, says: “the idea is to subvert, and to wear jewellery in unexpected places with gothic touches and elements – gold and black nails by H&H are...
...François Mitterrand was enlisted but the French president soon changed sides in the face of Helmut Kohl’s resolve. Britain found itself marginalised in Washington, where George H.W....
...Kohl in October 1989 had told Mitterrand the time was “not ripe” for it....
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