"This is a retail operation, " he says of the way its national chapter network is run.
But it cited a drop in sales for two years running as it shut its retail operation.
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Apple has developed a winning formula for these stores, but no retail operation can rest on its laurels.
The holiday shopping season is upon us and no retail operation can stand the disruption of a new boss.
The stores are the sleekest, most shoppable and most profitable retail operation, period.
Bruce Clark believes Ullman could do worse than look to a competitor for guidance on scaling down its retail operation.
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The retail operation was founded by David Mann in 1945, three years after the Pentagon opened, as a watch repair shop.
Under the plans, Dixons became an online retail operation with its 190 outlets rebranded as Currys.digital along with branches of Currys.
Over the years the business grew to a full-scale jewelry retail operation.
Assuming you meet all the local zoning restrictions for setting up a retail operation, the last thing you need is a business license.
Thompson must now build a retail operation to fill the pipes.
This is not a money center bank, but a boots on the ground retail operation serving customers in the states of New Jersey and New York.
In July De Beers dropped 35 of its 120 longtime sightholders (adding 10 new ones), raising rampant speculation that it was keeping its best supplies for its retail operation.
The most obvious example is Apple, which last month got rid of Scott Forstall, boss of its iOS software division, and John Browett, who very briefly ran the retail operation.
In a bit of scrambling news, discovery retail operation Birchbox announced today that it has acquired Paris-based competitor JolieBox, establishing themselves as a global brand without missing a single day of business.
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Robert Gannicott, Harry Winston chairman and CEO, said changes in both luxury retail and the diamond markets, as well as the need for cash, led to the decision to sell its luxury retail operation.
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With her megawatt smile, sandy blonde hair (dyed) and hourglass figure, Klum fiercely guards her image: Her looks are the foundation of a modeling, media and retail operation--two hit television shows and a slew of branded merchandise.
Wells Fargo lacks a significant investment banking operation, which Wachovia brings, along with a significant retail brokerage operation.
First, Citigroup has lost its flagship retail brokerage operation, Salomon Smith Barney, to Morgan Stanley.
At PK Metals, we have a retail recycling operation, and we speak with members of our community every day.
Merrill Lynch has quickly built up a large retail brokerage operation.
There is also the risk that the high-ticket customers it acquired so expensively at U.S. Trust might find the association with the retail brokerage operation distasteful and flee to other trust institutions.
In November Mr Rampl reshuffled his board, appointing Johann Berger to take over corporate banking and property, and Christine Licci, former head of Citigroup's German retail-banking operation, to revamp the retail business.
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Postbank is reputed to have the biggest and best retail-banking operation in Germany, but most of its 11m account holders are unlikely to want the additional, fancy services touted as a source of Postbank's future growth.
China Integrated Energy, Inc. (CBEH) : A non-state-owned company, China Integrated has three main businesses: the wholesale distribution of finished oil and heavy oil products, the production and sale of biodiesel, and the operation of retail gas stations.
Lorency said Operation Compassion used retail prices as a base because they can be ascertained more easily.
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So there would be a big new incentive for banks to deploy more of their capital in retail banking, or the operation perceived as more vital to the UK's prosperity.
Behind this retail chain is a wholesale buying operation: Graff Diamonds International is vertically integrated, taking stones from the rough shapes that come out of the mine to the display case.
Investment banking operations were easily the most impressive segment of the massive operation which also services commercial and retail banking customers.
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