Fast makeover: Shares in the natural-products chain Body Shop hit a 14-year high in February when L'Oreal admitting it was always looking to add shareholder value.
London - Fast makeover: Shares in the natural-products chain Body Shop hit a 14-year high in February when L'Oreal admitting it was always looking to add shareholder value.
On November 24th, a few days after the Japanese-owned Yaohan department store chain in Hong Kong went bust, word hit the streets that the St Honore Cake Shop chain was about to follow suit.
Starbucks, a coffee-shop chain, is expected to open soon as a similar franchise.
It emerged on Sunday that coffee shop chain Starbucks is in talks with HMRC about the amount of tax it pays.
The Seattle-based coffee-shop chain is the latest symbol of American consumer culture to make its mark on China's rapidly changing urban landscape.
It will allow Windows users to initiate a document print from their desktop that they can pick up at one of the copy shop chain's stores.
That figure includes transactions that closed during the period, such as the auto body-shop chain King Collision Repair Centers, and those announced but still pending, such as the acquisitions of asset manager TCW Group and photo library Getty Images.
The Body Shop chain got its start with a small cosmetics boutique in the English coastal city of Brighton that Roddick opened in 1976, seeking to support herself and her two daughters while her husband was trekking across the United States.
But it's a measure of the dominance of oral culture over the printed word both here and in the rest of Africa that Ivory Coast's leading book shop chain says it's only sold four thousand copies of Houphouet Boigny's Imaginary Plots.
The Atlantis Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas donates meals from its 21 restaurants and 19 bars to Hands for Hunger, a local humanitarian organisation that supports poor local families, while the Pret a Manger sandwich shop chain donated more than 2.5 million food products to UK charities for the homeless in 2012.
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.
Several well-known companies have gone public through SPACs in recent years, including fashion retailer American Apparel, along with the well known New York cupcake chain, Crumbs Bake Shop.
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If it had succeeded, it would have been the first major retail chain to have customers shop within the social network, a place where the average American spends about seven hours a month.
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He founded a wine shop and restaurant chain called PlumpJack in the early 1990s.
Among several socially-driven initiatives, Whole Foods will this year forge into areas such as Detroit an unlikely place for the upscale grocery chain setting up shop in places that have come to be known as food deserts.
Once you have decided to purchase a gun from a retail outlet -- it could be a local gun shop or national chain such as Bass Pro Shops, Cabelas or Walmart -- the store enters your name and information into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, via a toll-free number or the Internet, to check the eligibility of the buyer.
From the general ledger to the shop floor to the supply chain, these technology investments have been at the foundation of widespread improvements in productivity, profitability, and speed.
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Inventory throughout the 800 store chain is readily available to customers whether they shop in a store, on the Internet or on a mobile device.
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The food and clothing chain is to set up a heritage and coffee shop in Kirkgate Market in March, the city council confirmed.
The romantic comedy takes on the familiar facile arguments of modern life the pros and cons of e-mail relationships, the chain store behemoth v mom-and-pop shop, the heartless capitalist v the caring children's bookshop owner against the backdrop of an idealised Manhattan, graced by copious helpings of caffelatte, literary parties, and the perkiness of Ms Ryan accompanied by an assortment of children and dogs.
Recently the company partnered with Top Shop, an edgy London based specialty store chain targeting young consumers.
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Unable to compete with the purchasing power and supply chain prowess of national chains, the mom and pop shop seemed destined for the dust heap.
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.
About 30% of customers who fuel up at Costco also shop at its stores, according to a spokesman for the chain.
No. 151 Marian Ilitch and husband Michael opened a pizza shop in 1959 and grew it into the Little Caesar's Pizza chain.
Another new JC Penney shop-in-shop will be the colorful Canadian clothing brand Joe Fresh, started by grocery chain Loblaw.
After building a financial services company in the United States and leading an agribusiness social enterprise in Kenya, Madison combined the insights from his professional experiences to start Farm Shop, an organization that aims to increase the incomes of the entire supply chain of smallholder producers in Kenya by creating retail agri-inputs franchises.
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Group1 Automotive, a national dealership chain based in Houston, is gearing up to open a big call center to help people who shop on their smartphones.
Indoor-playground chain Pump It Up, for instance, will offer free babysitting so parents can leave the kiddos and shop unimpeded at many of its 150 locations.
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