Argos, the high street chain selling everything from toys to furniture, outperformed its market with total sales up 14% in the six months to 30 September, GUS said in a statement.
He had just spent eight years reviving the Fred Meyer supermarket chain before selling it to Kroger.
But in the long term, she says, Chiquita could actually benefit by making its tightly controlled supply chain a selling point to consumers.
Part of the reason is that the chain is selling more unit-dose laundry detergent, like Tide Pods, which have a profit margin up to 5% lower than liquid laundry for retailers.
Fendi sent Burlington a cease-and-desist letter, but when the retail chain kept selling the bags, Fendi filed a new lawsuit in 2006 against Burlington for violation of trademark and for contempt of the 1987 injunction.
The mysterious plaintiff even sued office-products chain Staples for selling urinal deodorizer blocks and urinal screens.
Yet the chain's selling woes continued against the tough competition of big-box outlets Best Buy, Circuit City and Wal-Mart Stores.
W.W. Grainger ( GWW), which operates a chain of outlets selling industrial supplies, has boosted margins and revenue in recent years.
Carrefour, the French retail chain, is selling its stake in its Greek joint venture owing to fears about Greece's deteriorating economic situation.
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The losers will include those (like Borders, an extinct chain of bookshops) that keep selling things people are happy to buy online.
Sumner suggested possibly selling off the theater chain that Shari ran.
Pathway has been selling its testing kits since September, but selling them at a large chain store like Walgreens would reach many more customers.
The toy chain will appeal, protesting that by selling only the most popular toys, and only at Christmas, the discounters were free-riding on its marketing.
If playing on the PGA Tour is like having your product stocked at Wal-Mart, competing on the Nationwide is like selling through a regional supermarket chain.
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She was impressed by the retail chain's training program, which emphasized selling the gourmet experience of coffee.
While we expect product shipments to decrease slightly, we estimate lower revenues and depressed margins due to rapidly declining average selling prices throughout the solar supply chain.
This trader broke the chain of wash sales on December 15 by selling all his positions, and not buying any of them back until after 30 days.
To this day, different militia often control the mines, selling the minerals into the global supply chain.
Supply chain executives get used to salesmen from their suppliers selling to them.
That chain became CBS and it was extremely effective in selling things to smoke, drink, drive or make you smell nice.
The chain said it was not responsible for "either selling or removing the Banksy mural, " saying it did not own the building.
Focus used to own the Wickes chain, which it bought in September 2000 before selling it in February 2005 to Travis Perkins.
The paltry returns from, say, a share in a Havana hotel would be dwarfed by the value that could be realised by selling that stake to an American hotel chain.
In Milton Keynes, on the edge of the enormous modernist mall full of bright chain stores, there is a flea market with stalls selling Afro-Caribbean and Asian foods.
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But perhaps the world's most successful at this is New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has a chain of 40 shops, from Texas to Tokyo, selling replicas of its exhibits though the Met declines to say how much profit these stores make.
Someone who can take a once great retail chain with tremendous geographical reach, strong legacy and roots in selling high margin hard to understand products and turn it into a profit center.
With its selling savvy and clean balance sheet, the 181-store chain posted an impressive 12.8% same-store sales gain over the past year.
Daniel Himsworth, a spokesman for Woolworths, said that copies of Leon's single were selling at the rate of 40-per-minute at the chain.
His dad owned a cigar factory and had bought a small and inexpensive chain of TV stations to see if broadcast advertising might be any good at selling his product.
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