Argos is to cut up to 10% of its 750 stores in a move to reposition itself from a catalogue-led business to a digital retailer. A spokeswoman from Argos said the store would wind down the existing branches as their leases expire over the ...
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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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At the turnover of the model year, car dealers of all stripes roll out ads for cut-rate leases as they try to clear out old inventory. As tempting as these low lease rates may sound, even the best lease deals don't save money, according to ...
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There are some tempting car lease ads right now, but are they truly good deals? Perhaps they are useful in the short-term, but our analysis of recent newspaper ads reveal that traditional buying leads to long-term savings. We looked at ...
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Huawei today confirmed it was opening new headquarters in the Green Park area of Reading as it ramps up its investments in the UK. In September this year, the founder and CEO of the company, Ren Zhengfei, pledged 1.3bn to the UK arm of ...
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The Summer 2012 Las Vegas Market delivered an energized show and attracted thousands of upbeat home furnishings buyers—many of whom were there for the first time—from around the United States and abroad. Las Vegas' Summer ...
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IDG News Service - Streaming video game service OnLive is based around powerful servers that streams games to inexpensive TV adapters in the homes of its users, but it was a miscalculation in the amount of infrastructure needed that ...
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LAS VEGAS — World Market Center Las Vegas announced that 22 tenants signed long-term, permanent leases before the 2012 Summer Las Vegas Market, which took place July 30-Aug. 3. In total, new tenants will occupy 250,000 square feet ...
WASHINGTON -- The United States has been shipping application development work offshore for years, but cloud computing may help make this country a provider of data center services to enterprises in other countries. Consider the situation ...
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Recently, Digital Lumens Intelligent LED Lighting System has supported Silver Beauty, a Chicago-area company that builds and leases warehouses for lighting retrofit in a 177,413-square foot facility. Previously, the facility used ...
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Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams ...
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In what would be its maiden overseas venture, Birla Corp plans to set up a cement plant in Ethiopia. The MP Birla group company has recently formed a wholly-owned subsidiary, Birla Corp Cement Manufacturing Plc, in the sub-Saharan African ...
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The Darling Quarter entertainment-oriented precinct in Sydney, Australia now features the Luminous LED-lit facade that stretches 150m and entertains guests with dynamic light shows. Klik Systems supplied LED-based linear light ...
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Computer numeric control machinery (CNC) is one of the most important purchases a production business owner makes. Many small companies and individual owners consider purchasing CNC equipment used rather than spending a fortune buying new ...
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Minsheng Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. (MSFL), China’s main non-banking financial institution, and AIXTRON SE (FSE: AIXA; NASDAQ: AIXG), a leading supplier of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced a ...