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...Many of the Americans who raced to buy up homes in leafy hamlets across the country also indulged in relatively large purchases such as pools, outdoor furniture and grills....
...A deal with Swedish furniture maker Ikea to make more accessible products has helped boost sales. But the smart-speaker market is growing more quickly than Sonos earnings might suggest....
...Poundland on Wednesday reported that sales rose 5.6 per cent in the 12 weeks to December 24....
...The Australian dollar weakened against its US counterpart to $0.7829 following disappointing retail sales figures for August. Futures tip both the FTSE 100 and S&P 500 to open flat....
...Founded in 2013 in Paris, ManoMano sells DIY tools, products and furniture from a network of merchants, and is on track for sales of €280m in 2017, up from €89m last year....
...furniture, company cars and parties....
...Home Retail agreed a sale to UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s....
...(Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art evening sale took place on Tuesday; Christie’s corresponding sale is scheduled for May 14.) Korniloff is bullish about his new venture in New York....
...All objets d’art and furniture are included in the property sale....
...The BRC said Furniture and Flooring was the best performing category....
...In 2011, a previous version of UP had to be pulled from sale because of flaws in the device and its software, with all customers offered refunds....
...The news came as former Dwell chief executive Aamir Ahmad bought some of the furniture chain he founded out of administration....
...Jefferies LLC was the sole financial adviser to Astex. Otsuka was advised by Goldman Sachs....
...Interest has been expressed by LVMH, the Malaysian government’s investment fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Qatar Holding LLC and China’s HNA Group, but no deal has yet been sealed....
...Any sale option will be benchmarked against the merits of management’s own turnround plan for the business. Merrill Lynch is advising Kesa on the sale....
...goes ahead - Pensioner takes on Bank of Ireland to keep savings - Club Med mulls expansion into Cambodia and Vietnam - City braces itself for Bribery Act - Ning Li to launch second online-furniture arm...
...Interest has also come from Steinhoff International, the South African-listed furniture retailer, which missed out on buying But three years ago. All parties declined comment....
...Discount chains have also been boosted by the demise of Woolworths, and took about £60m of sales from the collapsed retailer during the course of 2009, according to Verdict, the retail research group....
...They have 14% to 15% of the market share in online sales, and that’s quite good in itself,” he said....
...Sales in France, which account for more than 40 per cent of revenues, fell 4.2 per cent on a like-for-like basis, while French hypermarket sales fell by 8 per cent....
...But Sir Howard should be awarding a virtual gold star to the Loot team, for imaginative exploitation of virtual items in the face of declining industry sales of real-world DVDs....
...The company’s main products were rigid and flexible polyurethane foams for use in the auto , construction and furniture industries....
...Silver Bait LLC produces fishing worms by the millions. But that’s only the beginning of what it produces....
...The French furniture chain had sales of €876.4m last year, a rise of 3.5 per cent, and operating profit of €53.1m, up 6 per cent....
...Kesa, the electrical goods retailer, is to launch its first share buy-back after agreeing the sale of its BUT furniture division to a private equity consortium for €550m ($816m), including debt....
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