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$100,000 Fortune Hunt

Potential contestants purchased a $100,000 Fortune Hunt scratch-off ticket from an Illinois Lottery retailer.

2002–03 CA Osasuna season

Osasuna's kit was manufactured by Spanish sports retailer Astore and sponsored by Caja Navarra.

A Tale of Two Cities: The Circuit City Story

The documentary chronicles the entire 60-year history of the Richmond-based retailer, Circuit City.

Agip

Agip (Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli—General Italian Oil Company) is a former Italian automotive gasoline, Diesel, LPG, lubricants, fuel oil, and bitumen retailer established in 1926.

Alworths

During the demise of the company, Tony Page, former commercial director at Woolworths, together with former UBS banker Gareth Thomas, put together plans to establish a new general retailer to fill the gap on the High Street left by the demise of Woolworths.

Atrium on Bay

Atrium on Bay hosts the spacious flagship store of the Canadian photo retailer Black's Photography, an outlet of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the main prize claiming site for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Tourism Ontario, and the Land Registry Office for the City of Toronto.

Avenida Alvear

Near the avenue it's the Patio Bullrich, whose boutiques include Carolina Herrera, Salvatore Ferragamo, Kenzo, Calvin Klein, Ermenegildo Zegna, Cacharel, Zara, among others.

B2B

Business-to-business, commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer

Bel Air Mall

In March of that year, discount retailer Target announced it would be locating its first South Alabama store at the mall.

Bruntwood

Customers in Bruntwood's retail space include Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Krispy Kreme, WHSmith, Paddy Power, Sainsbury's, Starbucks, Spar as well as a number of independent retailers throughout the portfolio including in Afflecks.

Buchs, Aargau

The largest employers are the Chocolat Frey AG, the Jowa bakery and the Mibelle AG cosmetics manufacturer, all of them belonging to Switzerland's largest retailer Migros.

Business cluster

For instance, in the case of Builders Square, the home improvement retailer could not compete with industry leaders such as Home Depot when it could not materialize the same low costs and contracts.

Cartrivision

Cassettes of major movies such as The Bridge on the River Kwai and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner were ordered via the initial 200-movie catalog at a retailer, delivered by parcel mail, and then returned to the retailer after viewing.

Charles Scribner's Sons Building

Declining business forced the Scribner's Bookstore to relocate to a lower-rent district in New York before it was acquired by Barnes & Noble, Inc. The building has subsequently housed Brentano's bookstore, a Benetton clothing store, and presently Sephora, a cosmetics retailer.

Clowne

Regeneration of the town centre has taken place including the opening of a Tesco supermarket, Wilkinson store and Aldi supermarket.

Corner Brook Plaza

Other stores in the mall include, among others, Coles, The Source, Payless ShoeSource, DAVIDsTEA, Stitches, Bluenotes, Bootlegger, Le Chateau, Ardène, Spring and Pseudio.

DGSE Companies

is a leading precious metal and jewelry wholesaler and retailer in the Southwestern United States, headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Dilmah

In 1985, Merril Fernando convinced the Australian supermarket retailer, Coles to stock his brand of tea, Dilmah.

Domain Central

Domain Central also has a large number of outlet and discount retailers including the furniture retailers Nick Scali Furniture, Far Pavilions, Bazaar Furniture Traders, Bedshed, Sleepcity, Snooze and Sleepys; lifestyle retailers BCF, Tackleworld, BNG Sports and Kathmandu and fashion retailers Barkins, Millers and Tarocash.

FNAC

the Fnac, a French cultural and consumer retailer (in French, feminine: la Fnac)

Footstar

Footstar originally consisted of three former Melville divisions – family footwear retailer Thom McAn, athletic shoe retailer FootAction USA, and Meldisco, which operated footwear departments inside department and discount stores, primarily Kmart.

Grand Home Furnishings

In December 2005, industry newspaper Furniture Today ranked Grand Home Furnishings as the 58th largest furniture retailer in the US with annual sales of $111 million.

HMV Canada

HMV Canada is a retailer in Canada, owned by Hilco.

Hormuud Telecom

This service replaces scratch-off cards, which are more costly to keep and may be more vulnerable to theft, thereby necessitating greater security precautions on the retailer's part.

IKEA Catalogue

The IKEA Catalogue (US spelling: IKEA Catalog; Swedish: Ikea-katalogen) is a catalogue published annually by the Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA.

James E. Ferrell

Since the time he took over, Ferrellgas has grown from a small, independently owned propane company to the nation’s second-largest propane retailer.

JoJo Maman Bébé

JoJo Maman Bébé is a UK-based multi-channel maternity wear and baby clothing retailer, founded in 1993, with 54 stores in the UK.

José Chico Vega

He also received the Outstanding Retailer Salesperson Award from Shell Oil Company.

KB Toys

It was also the second-oldest operating toy retailer in North America (behind FAO Schwarz) before its demise.

Lightnin' Strikes

It was a hit in 1966, making it first to No. 1 in Canada in January 1966 on the RPM Top Singles chart, then to No. 1 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February and No. 11 on the UK Record Retailer chart.

Ludford, Lincolnshire

Montagu C. Allwood and his brothers, who grew up in a farming family in the village, moved to south of Burgess Hill in Sussex to build a plant nursery, which is now the largest retailer of carnation plants in the world.

Media-Saturn-Holding GmbH

Media-Saturn-Holding GmbH is a German corporate group comprising consumer electronic retailers Media Markt and Saturn and online retailer Redcoon.

Modelzone

Prior to its acquisition by WHSmith, the company operated a chain of high-street stores and had a distribution arm, Amerang; when Modelzone entered administration in June 2013, the company had 47 branches and 385 employees, and was the UK's largest model retailer.

NCIX

NCIX.com (or Netlink Computer Inc.) is an online computer hardware and software retailer based in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, founded in 1996 by Steve Wu (伍啟儀).

Orgasm Addict

The sleeve collage of the iron-headed woman was created by Linder Sterling who explained; "Well, the iron came from an Argos catalogue and the female torso came from a photographic magazine called Photo. I never cleared the copyright but no one noticed, so it was alright."

Pecanland Mall

Pecanland Mall features five major anchors, and over 100 specialty shops Such as American Eagle Outfitters, Forever 21, Hollister Co., The Buckle, Charlotte Russe, Express, Wet Seal, New York and Company, Victoria's Secret, Aeropostale, Hot Topic, Footlocker, Bath and Body Works, and Sunglass Hut.

Regent Street

In May 2011, reports surfaced that British fashion retailer Superdry was to move into the building occupied by Austin Reed, which in turn was to move across the road into Aquascutum.

Replacements

Replacements Ltd., a Greensboro, North Carolina retailer of china, flatware and related items

Retail in the Republic of Ireland

Notably, many major British 'high street' names now operate in the Republic of Ireland, such as Dixons, Next, Debenhams, Topshop, Boots, Superdrug, Argos, Dorothy Perkins, Maplin, Currys, T.K. Maxx, PC World, Game Stop and others.

Many British stores also appear in these parks (e.g. Argos and Homebase).

Richard Maponya

With the capital acquired he attempted to open a clothing retailer in Soweto, but was blocked by the government's refusal to grant him a licence – despite the intervention by the law firm created by Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela.

SIMAN

ALSISA is in charge of operating the franchise since 2002 of the Spanish group Inditex in Central America with the clothing stores Zara, Pull and Bear Bershka, Massimo Dutti and Stradivarius.

Southampton City Centre

It includes a number of large warehouse-style stores, currently occupied by Toys "R" Us, Mothercare, Argos, Tesco and Staples among others.

T.J. Maxx

In the UK in 2007, T.K. Maxx was an active participant of Comic Relief, having been the sole retailer of the Red Nose Day t-shirts which generated £2 million for the Comic Relief cause.

The J. Peterman Company

The J. Peterman Company is a retail company that sells clothing and fashion accessories primarily through catalogs and the Internet.

Thorngumbald

The village shopping centre has five shops: a small Boots chemist, a newsagents, family butcher, fish and chip shop and a Spar Convenience store.

Tie Rack

Tie Rack is a British-based tie retailer that sells scarves, cufflinks, and many other items of clothing.

Trongate

The London based retailer Selfridges acquired the former Goldbergs site on the corner of Trongate and Candleriggs on which to build a new department store which promised to revamp the area significantly, although progress on this stalled indefinitely after the sale of Selfridges to Canada's Galen Weston in 2003, who intended to revamp Selfridge's flagship Oxford Street store rather than open in Glasgow and other cities such as Newcastle Upon Tyne, Leeds and Bristol.

Victor Polishchuk

In 2004 Polishchuk’s TechEnergoTrade acquired 70% of the Technopolis company – a home appliances retailer.


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