The following year Korean department stores Lotte and Galleria came to the pair asking them to open what is called a "shop-n-shop"--the designer pays the department stores rent and manages the inventory and display (versus the U.S., where department stores buy stock of the brands they carry).
Earnings were plowed back into opening more shop-n-shops at other department stores like Hyundai and Samsung.
By 1999 the founders had 40 Obzee shop-n-shops, were considered the "Marc Jacobs of Korea", and had an offer to be bought out.
Following the sale, Supervalu will focus on its Save-A-Lot discount stores, as well as its smaller regional chains Cub, Farm Fresh, Shoppers, Shop 'n Save and Hornbacher's.
Supervalu announced the sale in January, at which time it said that after the sale it would focus on its Save-A-Lot discount stores, as well as its smaller regional chains Cub, Farm Fresh, Shoppers, Shop 'n Save and Hornbacher's.
Park'n Shop home-delivers from a selection of 4, 000 products, for example.
Lai's new direct marketing venture, adMart, goes head to head with Li enterprises such as Park 'n Shop supermarket chain and electrical appliances retailer Fortress.
Aside from convenience stores and some niche sellers, the territory's supermarket business is controlled by two huge chains: Park'n Shop, the stores owned by Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa Group, and Wellcome, which belongs to Asia's biggest grocer, Jardine Matheson-controlled Dairy Farm.
Whether living in a Cheung Kong apartment, switching on a Fortress appliance powered by Hong Kong Electric, buying groceries at Park 'N Shop or toiletries at Watson's, listening to Metro Radio, or, soon, connecting via a PCCW-HKT line, people in the Special Administrative Region are a captive market.
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At Hunter's Haven, a strip-mall gun shop in the farming community of Rolesville, N.
Since its founding in 1945, as essentially a diplomatic talking shop headquartered in the U.S., the U.N. has ballooned into a sort of post-colonial global empire, involving scores of thousands of staff, peacekeepers, agencies and proliferating agendas worldwide.
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