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...A massively popular mini bag by Uniqlo that sells for Y1,500 ($10) in Japan is at the centre of the latest legal dispute....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on September 12, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The setting is Los Angeles, a low-rise beige-out of warehouses and mini-marts....
...The group, which started as a pot-noodle business in post-Soviet Ukraine, made its name in real estate and resorts before expanding into mini-marts, schools, healthcare and, more recently, smartphones and...
...Still, with the country’s mini marts and convenience stores poised for aggressive growth around the country this year — CP All Group is set to operate 11,000 stores by the end of the year — changing people...
...Wal-Mart owns Asda; Apple claims to have 6500 employees in the UK; BMW still has significant operations associated with its Mini brand; AT&T claims to employ almost 1500 people in the UK....
...H&M, the Swedish retailer, began fully sourcing clothes from Myanmar suppliers in 2014....
...It is more important to work with local retailers and distributors to get the product out to the mini-marts, small eateries and street stalls where lower income Indonesians spend their cash....
...The rebound in the world’s second-largest economy was largely the result of government efforts to shore up growth with looser monetary policy and a “mini-stimulus” of investment in infrastructure such as...
...(WSJ) “The National Labor Relations Board said it is prepared to file complaints alleging Wal-Mart violated workers’ rights to protest—unless Wal-Mart and the parties settle matters first.”...
...Suppliers to retailers Wal-Mart and H&M were forced to come to a settlement in early March this year which cost about $145,000 in back wages and severance to workers who lost their jobs when their factory...
...But major US retailers including Wal-Mart, Sears, and JC Penney have so far demured, while Gap said it wouldn’t sign the agreement in its current form....
...JM Smucker rose 5 per cent on Friday to trade at an all-time high of $82.96 after the company topped earnings estimates....
...And I know their trade has suffered badly since Sainsbury’s opened up a mini-mart, six months ago....
...The cherubic JM campiness is there, but with a prettier, more normalised turn....
...(H/T Bill Bishop’s Sinocism) Related links: How China can keep urbanising – with flat steel demand – FT Alphaville China’s mini stimulus, explained – FT Alphaville...
...Wal-Mart is the subject of a US Justice Department criminal investigation after a report on the weekend about allegations of corruption at its Mexican subsidiary, reports Bloomberg, citing a person familiar...
...H&R Block fell 2.2 per cent to $16.42, after Morgan Stanley analysts predicted, “the share price will fall in absolute terms over the next 30 days”, because of “disappointing early season tax volume” for...
...The working-class Harehills neighbourhood in Leeds is an unlikely crossroads for global criminality – a jumble of down-market stores, pungent take-aways and immigrant-owned mini-marts featuring adverts...
...Mini-vanilla slices and bite-size doughnuts defrost in the kitchen....
...M*A*S*H* managed to negotiate a fine line between black humour and sentimentality. Taxi was worth watching for the mercurial Andy Kaufman. They were drops in the ocean....
...Chaired by Zhu Rongji (Premier of China 1998-2003) and H....
...M and Wal-Mart....
...Customisation is already a lucrative business line for carmakers – notably for urban minicars such as Fiat’s 500....
...£30, 450 pages The demise of the venerable codex, or bound book, has been predicted at least since 1899, when HG Wells in The Sleeper Awakes envisaged the entire corpus of human literature reduced to a mini-library...
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