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...An interesting example is BJ’s Wholesale, a members-club bulk retailer that is popular among a wide range of consumers....
...The new code proposes looser regulation on “wholesale only” fibre builds — such as Open Fiber in Italy — where the network is independent of the service side of the telecoms industry....
...Its flagship website’s product catalogue is based on wholesale prices, while its four other websites, which include AllModern and Dwell Studio, hit across the price-point spectrum....
...They have a first-floor, loft-apartment-style space with high ceilings, contemporary designer furniture and full kitchen....
...Today, its model is the norm but back when it opened in 2004, with stock that included an exclusive furniture collaboration with Hedi Slimane and a Lanvin collection made entirely in white, the practice...
...Michael Graves, who has died aged 80, paved the way for a wholesale questioning of the banality into which modernism had descended by the late 1970s and his works were never less than striking....
...Economists with Barclays say a 20 per cent decline in oil prices could result in $70bn in consumer savings, which will probably stream into the tills of clothing, furniture and electronics retailers....
...It is hard, though, to see the public benefit in Amazon treating book publishers as just another bunch of suppliers, like the makers of toys or garden furniture....
...And the wholesale division – particularly in fixed-income sales and trading – may continue to make gains at the expense of US and European rivals determined to shrink their balance sheets....
...Companies like Ikea, the Swedish flat-pack furniture maker, and western apparel groups such as Hennes & Mauritz are gradually moving to set up shop....
...“If you lose your US dollar clearing permission, you cannot be a wholesale bank in Asia. If you lose that licence, you cannot be a trade bank,” said Chirantan Barua, an analyst at Sanford C Bernstein....
...Germany’s Metro has also entered the wholesale cash and carry business, but has no plans to expand retail in India....
...Although Ikea, the Swedish furniture retailer, has managed to fill a need in Japan for stylish yet low-cost home furnishings, it took the group two earlier attempts to crack the Japanese market before finally...
...Mr King, a former judge, himself succeeded two of South Africa’s archetypal strong men: Philip Frame of the eponymous textile group, and Natie Kirsh, the wholesale food magnate who ran Tradegro, then the...
...Good news for folks in equity capital markets, as Sir John Vickers’ banking commission report decided to drop a possible review of wholesale banking fees....
...For the industry as a whole, one of the most important indicators remains the forward electricity wholesale price as it reflects the supply-demand balance for energy....
...Separately on Tuesday, the labour department said that US wholesale prices rose by 0.8 per cent in November, marking the largest gain since March....
...The luxury division returned to growth in the final three months after a rebound in wholesale....
...Durant clearly believes that even buying at wholesale is paying too much....
...This week, the retailer announced like-for-like sales in its entertainment division were 33 per cent down in the six months to February due to the collapse of Woolworths’ wholesale division, EUK, which left...
...Deloitte is also continuing to talk to potential buyers for EUK, Woolworths’ wholesale business, but the division is under pressure as its customers look elsewhere....
...For example, MFI, the furniture retailer that went into administration last year, was one of Global Services’ customers....
...Richard Galanti, Costco’s CFO, told investors that the retailer was seeing high double digit sales of food and grocery items, while sales of bigger ticket items such as televisions, jewellery and furniture...
...Wholesale depositors withdrew funding, leaving it struggling to finance a balance sheet that had swelled to almost £2,000bn....
...In the wholesale sector, builders’ merchants reported an annual decline in sales for the first time in 14 months, reflecting the slowdown in commercial and residential property markets....
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