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...“The balance of power is shifting to the Middle East in private markets.”...
...As Google Play is unavailable in China the apps are being sold via Chinese app stores....
...Lidl has opened 37 stores in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia, and plans to have 100 stores along the east coast by next summer....
...Online sales of denim by major department stores in the UK and US have risen 14 per cent in the past three months compared with the same period last year, according to Editd, the retail analyst site, and...
...To a degree, the total or partial sale of Carrefour’s holdings in Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and southeast Asia has altered the group’s profile....
...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....
...This will store up costs for the future in terms of larger prison populations, higher suicide rates and family breakdown....
...Where Antwerp has its burgeoning concept stores that can become launchpads for young designers in eccentrically curated spaces, and Paris has its streets of mid-century modern dealers, London still suffers...
...that caused widespread store closures along the east coast and in the south-east”....
...Carrefour was one of the first into China, where it is still market leader with 424 stores....
...It still needs to fix its discount stores and re-invent the business model of its French hypermarket business....
...“We cleared out BJ’s stores up and down the east coast,” Mr Lore says. “The managers would ask us to leave some for the rest of their customers.”...
...Speakers include Dennis Paphitis, founder of Aesop (who is also hosting Gareth Neal’s furniture in his Mount St and Westbourne Grove Aesop stores)....
...There were store cards, car loans, personal loans and credit cards. Now, amid the recession, those lenders want their money back. “The bank just closed down our overdraft....
...Best Buy, the US consumer electronics retailer, ealier this year took a controlling stake in Jiangsu Five Star, a Shanghai-based store chain....
...Wal-Mart has also launched football-themed marketing events at stores with significant Hispanic customers, with 155 stores participating in events that include setting up Astroturf football fields in the...
...In a statement, Ron Burkle said that Yucaipa saw “significant opportunity” in the north east US....
...Ahold will now focus on the remaining businesses including Stop & Shop, Giant-Landover, Giant-Carlisle and Topps stores, which are all based in the north east of the country....
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