Hints and tips:
...The average auction price for this year is set to be about 30 per cent higher than a year earlier, according to the National Rice Wheat and Barley Improvement Association....
...Jeff Lenard, vice-president of strategic industry initiatives at NACS, a convenience store trade association, warned that fuel travels at 3-5mph along the pipeline — or about 100 miles a day — meaning it...
...However, there has been “in many cases two or three times normal demand” as consumers reacted to the disruption, said Jeff Lenard, vice-president for strategic industry initiatives at NACS, a convenience...
...Couche-Tard, which has a market value of $37bn, has long grown through acquisitions and was among the bidders last year for Speedway, the US petrol station group owned by Marathon Petroleum that was eventually...
...of gasoline retailing?...
...“The $20 that used to pay for breakfast and a fill-up now just pays for a fill-up,” says Jeff Lenard of the National Association of Convenience Stores....
...Hence reports that Sainsbury’s is in talks to buy Nisa, the network of more than 2,500 independently owned convenience stores, for £130m....
...According to a National Coffee Association survey, 15 per cent of millennials aged 18 to 34 had their last cup of coffee in a café and 32 per cent had an espresso based drink the day before the survey, the...
...It retains formidable strengths, from its dominant position in Spain’s leading cities to its long association with some of the world’s most popular brands....
...The first UK supermarket to get a grip on organic was Safeway, which supported the Soil Association from the late 1980s onwards....
...The rise of convenience retailing fuelled growth at Euro Garages, with sales at the fast-growing petrol station operator increasing almost 50 per cent....
...The pressure on logistics companies is putting a spotlight on policy, says Karen Dee, director of policy at the Freight Transport Association....
...This is, of course, not just a place for books. Modern retailing, as we are endlessly told, is about the experience. And Foyles was in the vanguard of “added value”....
...The case was brought by a collection of retailers and trade associations, including NACS, the convenience store lobby group, and the National Retail Federation....
...Each petrol pump has a dual identity at Neal Hoff’s convenience store. One side bears the familiar shield logo of Phillips 66, the oil refiner....
...Walmart and Bharti Enterprises have been working together since 2007 to navigate the complex Indian policy environment for retailing....
...The first answer was Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the “Iron Lady”, who had been an important player in the struggle to end misrule for decades, but was also tainted by a brief association with Charles Taylor,...
...Energy Association, the FT reports....
...“It is the cost of making the gasoline that has been driving the situation,’’ said John Felmy, economist at the American Petroleum Institute, the national industry association....
...Chain Stores Association....
...“We have been an easy target for the politicians....
...Meanwhile, Fast Retailing, the owner of the Uniqlo stores that specialise in casual clothing, boosted net profits by 37 per cent, thanks to its value-for-quality offerings....
...This is one of the findings of a survey in which Walpole, the trade association for the British luxury industry, worked with independent technology and market research company, Forrester Research, to probe...
...The regulator said that it had looked at a number of areas flagged by the Association of Convenience Stores, which speaks for 33,000 outlets, during its 18-month inquiry but had failed to uncover any negative...
International Edition