Sears also spun off on Nov. 14, 2012, its Sears Canada subsidiary, in which it has reduced its stake to 51%.

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Sears Canada accounted for 11% of total revenue in the second quarter.

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It spun off its Orchard Supply Hardware Stores last December, then also spun off its Hometown and Outlet businesses and a large portion of its stake in Canadian unit, Sears Canada.

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The Monday after the deadly collapse of Rana Plaza in Savar, Bangladesh, Joe Fresh parent company Loblaw joined fellow retailers Sears Canada and Wal-Mart Canada at an emergency meeting of the Retail Council of Canada to discuss how to combat working conditions in sweatshops.

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The people who care about it are the large enterprises that IBM sells to, companies like Sears, ING, Heinz and Air Canada, and these firms tend not to want too talk much about how they use technology for fear of disclosing their advantages to competitors.

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Sears was so hot for the Neptune it agreed to carry Maytag appliances in the U.S. and Canada for the first time.

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