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...The company, which also runs Circle K convenience stores in Vietnam, has been working with Kamakura Foods to bring its vending machine system into the south-east Asian country....
...Carrefour must appear cheap to the Canadian fuel and convenience stores empire, owner of the Circle K chain....
...Couche-Tard, which owns the Circle K brand, had made the approach fairly recently, said one person briefed about the matter, while a second said Carrefour needed time to study the idea....
...The intervention by Bruno Le Maire, which came only a day after talks between the two companies were revealed, are certain to complicate matters for the Quebec-based company best known for its Circle K stores...
...The 72-year-old entrepreneur was sent packing back to Laval, Québec where he founded Couche-Tard, best known for its Circle K chain, in 1980....
...The U.K.-based firm informally contacted Gilead last month to gauge its interest in a possible tie-up, the people said, asking not to be identified because the details are private....
...K&L Gates has hired Steven Olenick as a corporate partner in the New York office. He joins the from Loeb & Loeb....
...This year, several of the country’s clean-cut K-pop stars have been embroiled in scandals....
...The regulator initiated enforcement action against some Walgreens outlets and against rival Circle K Stores, warning the retailers that it would vigorously enforce the law....
...The Ivanka Trump brand did not comment directly on the Nordstrom move but Rosemary K....
...The retail outlets at the company’s network of service stations are to be rebranded as Circle K, which Couche-Tard is developing into its global brand....
...The Circle is so dominant that it manufactures its own tablets, holds the details of millions of users and stores all data in the cloud....
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...It also boasts soft leather chairs, including one occupied earlier this week by a retiree who gave her name as Barbara K....
...Uny Co, the department store operator, climbed 6.6 per cent to Y747 after launching a tender offer for the remainder of the shares in its Circle K Sunkus convenience store unit....
...“This product is about convenience,” says Nigel Travis, president of Dunkin’ Donuts, which says it is the US’s biggest coffee merchant and sells more than 1bn cups from its stores every year....
...The decision has already been the subject of anguished debate in comics circles, where it is seen as a blow to a community that has traditionally focused on the delights of physical media....
...Couche-Tard, which greatly expanded its US presence through a 2003 deal to take over Circle K, has previously expressed its interest in adding to its portfolio while valuations remain reasonable....
...Sears, which has more than 3,800 stores in the US and Canada under the Sears and K-Mart brands, announced several measures to tackle the depressed retailing environment....
...But Circle K Sunkus, the convenience store chain, jumped 3.3 per cent to Y2,690 after it emerged that a fund led by activist investor Yoshiaki Murakami had taken a large stake....
...Lawson lost 4.2 per cent to close at Y4,380, with Circle K Sunkus down 2.4 per cent to Y2,815....
...At just 3,000 sq ft, a Tesco Express is roughly the size of the US 7-Eleven or Circle K convenience stores that crowd the US urban landscape....
...K is for knickers....
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