Canadian c-store chain Couche-Tard has booked an increase in first-half profits boosted by acquisitions. In the 24 weeks ended 14 October, earnings amounted to C$278.1m (US$279.7m), a 9.9% increase on the prior year period. The group said ...
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US drug store chain Rite Aid plans to carry a line of natural food options across all its stores in the country. The company will carry Wholesome Goodness, a natural food brand which stresses on the use of whole grains and fibers, and ...
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HOUSTON - Fast-growing bedding retailer Mattress Firm has agreed to acquire Mattress Source, a 28-store bedding specialty chain based in Charlotte, N.C. The deal, which is valued at about $11.2 million, will result in Mattress Source's ...
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After nearly 40 years in bicycle retail, Bike Gallery owner Jay Graves has retired and handed over the reins of his Portland chain to Mike Olson, owner of Trek Bicycle Superstore of San Diego, California. Graves is the ...
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Von Maur Department Store announced the opening of its women's specialty store chain, DRY GOODS, at Orland Square Mall in Orland Park, Ill. The 4,500 square foot store is the specialty store chain's third location in the Greater Chicago ...
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Maxlite has launched the new Merak series of LED Roadway lights for replacement of 70-500W HPS lights, while outdoor SSL installations from convenience store to San Antonio roadways make news. Maxlite has introduced its first LED-based ...
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Menswear label Agi & Sam, owned by the designer duo Agape Mdumulla and Sam Cotton, unveiled their debut womenswear collection exclusively at the British upmarket department store chain Harvey Nichols. The capsule range offers a line of ...
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Family Dollar Stores Inc. announced that it has named Colin McGinnis to the position of Senior Vice President-Store Operations Support, Store Development & Procurement. Mr. McGinnis will report to Barry Sullivan, Executive Vice President, ...
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Japanese trading company Itochu is in talks to acquire Dole Food’s global canned-fruit and juice-beverage processing operations, as well as its packaged foods and Asian fruit and vegetable businesses. Dole Food, a distributor of ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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Two of the leading jewellers in the U.S. posted solid growth Tuesday as the economy is beginning show actual long-term positive gains, even though it is still much too sluggish. The reports indicate that heading into the all-important ...
SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick -- Regional powerhouse Lounsbury Furniture has opened its first ever store here, the fifth in the chain and the first it has opened in many years. Nancy Bartlett, left, manager of Lounsbury Furniture's new ...
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Fifty years ago this month, GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED). In the five decades since, businesses and municipalities the world over have embraced LED systems for ...
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TORONTO -- Canadian retailer The Hudson's Bay Co. will return to the stock market with an initial public offering of shares planned in the next few months, according to documents filed with securities regulators. HBC was last traded on ...
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Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) is targeting the Russian Apparel Market through participating in one of the largest apparel fair of CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) region ‘Fashion Industry International Fair’, ...
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