LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Brown Jordan International, one of the world's largest casual furnishings companies, was named a 2012 Partner in Transformation for Sears Holdings Corporation. The exclusive licensee for La-Z-Boy Outdoor, Brown Jordan ...
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US retailer Supervalu has named Robert Bly president of Shoppers, a 56-store division operating discount outlets in Baltimore and Washington DC. Bly most recently served as VP of Sears-owned K-Mart, where he worked on efforts to grow ...
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Woodworkers are extremely passionate about their table saws. That’s at least one thing we’ve learned from our multiple postings about efforts to mandate saw safety by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and more ...
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California's controversial table saw safety bill will head to the state senate for a vote after being approved 3-2 by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. The Table Saw Safety Act, AB 2218, would require all new table saws manufactured ...
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Global supply chain optimization provider Manhattan Associates announced that Asda Stores Limited, one of the UK's leading multi-category retailers, has selected multiple components from the Supply Chain Process Platform (SCPP) for ...
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Sears Canada has become the latest customer of sustainability performance management software provider CloudApps. CloudApps will deploy its Sustainability Suite across Sears' portfolio, including 122 full-line stores, 48 Sears Home ...
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Anchor store Sears Appliances and Hardware will lock its doors for good this Friday, right before Memorial Day weekend. A fixture in North Lindenhurst since opening in 1997, Sears Hardware officially closed it doors to the general public on ...
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Connecticut construction officials are urging the industry to renew a building technique hundreds of years old as a way to save money and increase productivity today. The renewed push in prefabrication — or modular construction ...
Danaher Corp. (DHR) and Cooper Industries (CBE) Plc are seeking buyers for a joint venture that makes hand tools for Sears Holdings Corp.’s Craftsman brand, said two people with knowledge of the matter. The venture, Apex Tool Group, ...
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Sears Holdings Corp. paid its chief executive $9.9 million last year, including incentives the ailing department store operator offered to lure the former technology executive, according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory ...
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Sears Holdings Corp. plans to close 53 hardware stores in the first half of 2012, the company said in its annual report filed late Wednesday. The closures include 43 Sears hometown dealer stores and 10 Sears Hardware stores. Hometown stores ...
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Sears Holdings Corp. said it plans to spin off its small-format hometown dealer stores and outlets and sell 11 stores to raise cash and shore up its money-losing retail business. The long-suffering retailer, controlled by hedge-fund ...
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Since the ancient Egyptians began to use a hand-powered tower for centuries, man has tried to build and difficult editing tasks easier, faster and more efficient with power tools. We have come a long way from the sand-covered towers, but ...
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Sears Canada is helping Canadians save money and reduce their environmental footprint by becoming the first national Canadian retailer to ban the sale of inefficient incandescent and halogen lighting in its stores nationally. Print still ...
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