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...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....
...Dear Christ, I look like Tom Jones. Then, after five to 10 seconds of massaging it in, I’m relieved I’m no longer the colour of fish scales and decide it’s OK....
...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....
...Two things to start: Canadian convenience store group Couche-Tard has approached France’s Carrefour about a takeover in a deal that would combine two retail groups jointly worth more than $50bn....
...Saltwater-type economists (a.k.a the stimulus inclined) are far more partial to backing its theoretical existence than fresh water austerity types because it helps them justify more government spending....
...K&L Gates has hired Steven Olenick as a corporate partner in the New York office. He joins the from Loeb & Loeb....
...The U.K.-based firm informally contacted Gilead last month to gauge its interest in a possible tie-up, the people said, asking not to be identified because the details are private....
...This year, several of the country’s clean-cut K-pop stars have been embroiled in scandals....
...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....
...The brand is known in New York fashion circles for its reworking of the classic Japanese farmer’s coat, which fastens across the body with a cord tying to one side....
...Chipotle announced the closure of 43 restaurants on November 3, which caused a 20 per cent drop in comparable-store sales....
...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....
...Similarly, Tesla Motors, the electric carmaker, sees placing its stores in “high-visibility” locations such as shopping centres as helping to normalise electric cars....
...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....
...(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....
...Jones is watching the sales and licence dispute with interest....
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...It also boasts soft leather chairs, including one occupied earlier this week by a retiree who gave her name as Barbara K....
...In other earnings news, Ross Stores, operator of discount apparel retail stores, met analysts’ expectations, as profits for the third quarter rose 11 per cent on higher sales and improved margins....
...Matt Arnold, an analyst who covers US retailers at Edward Jones & Co, said the weakness in sales occurred at factory outlet stores, a uniquely North American phenomenon....
...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....
...K ohl’s was down 2.2 per cent to $46.63 and JC Penney shares were off 1.8 per cent at $26.97....
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