His Red Apple Group operates a chain of 32 Gristedes supermarkets in New York City.
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Nearly two-thirds of these, by value, involved foreign firms, such as Britain's Bass, which bought a hotel chain from the troubled Saison group.
In early 2003 they signed up Hannaford Brothers, a northeastern grocery chain (owned by Delhaize Group), and the town of Fairfield, Conn. to five-year deals.
In early 2003 they signed up Hannaford Brothers, a northeastern grocery chain (owned by Delhaize Group (nyse: DEG - news - people )), and the town of Fairfield, Conn. to five-year deals.
Kirtsaeng has attracted a large number of amicus briefs, with the American Library Association, Costco, eBay, Goodwill Industries International, Google, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, and a group of leading American art museums backing Kirtsaeng.
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That was followed by Renal Care Group, a fast-growing chain of kidney dialysis centers, up 29%.
This regulates the metabolism of a group of molecules called long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Then a group of older men formed a human chain around me and protected me.
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Sainsbury (a British-based supermarket group), Harrods (a London shop), Fairmont Raffles (a hotel chain) and chunks of banks such as Credit Suisse, Barclays and Santander.
Up to 50, 000 of these deaths could have been prevented, the association said, if someone had initiated what the group calls the Cardiac Chain of Survival and a defibrillator had been available.
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The business started shifting away from stocking streams to stocking store shelves in the 1970s, when Giant Food, a Landover, Md. grocery chain now owned by the Dutch group Royal Ahold, started buying its fillets.
In the last four years the 52-year-old clothier has rehabilitated two retail operations: British Home Stores (now known as BHS), a 76-year-old chain of department stores, and Arcadia Group, owner of popular outfitters like Topshop and Topman.
Bailian Group of Shanghai, whose domestically well-known businesses include the Shanghai Friendship Group and Lianhua Supermarket, led a list of top chain stores in China published by the China Chain Store and Franchise Association earlier this month.
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The second largest pizza chain in China is The Pizza Company, a brand owned by Minor Food Group.
The Reliance Fresh chain's grocery stores, a venture of billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Group, were stoned when they first opened.
Peltz merged his holding company, Triarc, with burger chain Wendy's in 2008 and remains a major shareholder and chairman of the group.
That includes burger aficionado Warren Buffett, who according to the UCLA business school website, told a group of visiting students back in 2005 that he hungered to own the chain.
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Details of that plan are still evolving, said Jonathan Gold, vice president of supply chain and customs policy at the National Retail Federation, a U.S. trade group.
That made it a challenge for him to run the U.S. arm of Luxottica Group, the eyewear chain controlled by his father, Leonardo.
And this week Daiei, a supermarket group, announced its decision to sell its 20% stake in Lawson, another konbini chain, to Mitsubishi Corporation, a big trading house.
Penney set the pace, surging 9.6% after an analyst at ISI Group suggested the department store chain could convert several hundred of its best locations into a real estate investment trust.
Nor have smaller firms been much impressed by the recent bungling in America by Aventis, a Franco-German group whose genetically modified maize has mysteriously found its way into the human food chain.
The group then walked to Victory Road, where the fire happened, and joined hands to form a human chain along the street.
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The chain had grown to become a force in the regional market and the original owners had sold out to an investment group long ago.
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