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...Simon Arora, founder and former chief executive of B&M, last week wrote to M2 saying he was “astonished” they were bidding for the entire chain....
...He added there was “ample interest from other discounters such as B&M” in Wilko’s outlets and they “will all be going to the landlords for the good stores”. B&M declined to comment....
...Following Wilko’s collapse in August, PwC had already sold 51 sites out of the chain’s total of 408 to its rival B&M for £13mn, while announcing 52 closures....
...Many discount chains have thrived in recent years but Wilko struggled in the face of increased competition from rivals such as B&M and Home Bargains and supply chain problems....
...Meanwhile, rivals B&M and Poundland have cherry-picked 122 stores from the Wilko estate, in desirable locations, which are set to open under their respective brands....
...Many discount chains have thrived in recent years but Wilko struggled in the face of increased competition from rivals such as B&M and Home Bargains....
...At quoted rival B&M, they were almost 8 per cent of sales....
...The guest list includes Susan B Anthony, Empress Theodora of Byzantium, Sappho, Artemisia Gentileschi, Caroline Herschel (a female astronomer and the first woman to discover a comet) and Elizabeth Blackwell...
...B&M recently reported a fall in sales and profits in the first half of its fiscal year while Poundland owner Pepco has said UK trading conditions “remain challenging”....
...The second song is Etta James’ ‘A Sunday Kind of Love’, foundational R&B. So I’ll pull it up....
...Groups such as Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America have called for other states to do the same, and pushed for Congress to go a step further with a federal ban....
...The actual fall in output from the Opec+ group’s lowered target is likely to be closer to 1mn b/d, rather than the headline of 2mn b/d, as many of its weaker members have struggled to hit production targets...
...Susan Estrich, a feminist legal scholar who advocated for reform of rape laws in the 1980s, has signed on to defend Black, whom she knew at Dartmouth....
...The deluxe design company B&B Italia, meanwhile, has mined its past by offering a reappraisal of the Bambole chair series....
...No wonder vintage jewellery dealer Susan Caplan has seen a 30 per cent uptick in sales of bangles and cuffs year-on-year....
...B Anthony List-affiliated Women Speak Out....
...“The choker is associated with everything from power and violence to femininity and wealth,” says vintage jeweller Susan Caplan, an enthusiastic wearer of chokers....
...The Christina Lake project can pump about 250,000 b/d of oil — more than the entire output of some Opec countries....
..., the gatherings in Bath and the fateful trip to Lyme Regis all come laced with music from Dua Lipa and Cardi B and are punctuated by playful physicality....
...From the work of Marjorie Dannenfelser, the head of Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America, which seeks to put anti-abortion women in political power, to the ultrasound technology that visually separated the foetus...
...More than 50 Tory MPs have signalled their opposition to some of the restrictions aimed at combating the spread of the Omicron variant, even as scientific advisers — including Dr Susan Hopkins, chief medical...
...Recent modelling by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that without additional restrictions that go beyond Plan B, the UK could see up to 75,000 Covid deaths linked to the Omicron variant...
...At the moment the B.1.617 variant, which has been linked with a surge in cases in India in recent weeks, has been classified by Britain as a “variant under investigation”....
...After a series of difficult meetings, Wilkinson saw he would need a Plan B....
...The variant outbreak has been “significant”, said Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser for NHS Test and Trace, who urged people to come forward for a test....
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