The gift reflects the outsized ambitions the retail-chain family has for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, a complex of eight gallery pavilions it has helped build around a pair of ponds in the company's northwestern Arkansas hometown of Bentonville (population 35, 301).
It recently launched four agro-industrial businesses supplying staple products such as milk and maize flour, and its retail-food chain, Mercal, aims to cover 60% of the market.
Mr. Duncan represents Hobby Lobby, a family-owned retail chain risking severe penalties for putting principles before profits.
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The North Carolina-based price-point retail chain is looking for store managers, customer service representatives, and human resources coordinators, among others.
These include the single fastest-growing retail chain in any sector, Sprouts Farmers Market, which doubled in size in the past year.
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Meanwhile, a pair of activist investors, including Bernard Arnault, France's richest man, bought a big stake in the French-based retail chain.
The once-dominant retail chain, owned by Dish Network, has been closing stores since Dish bought it out of bankruptcy and is down to fewer than 1000 locations.
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Undaunted, Green set his sights on British Home Stores, the country's fifth-largest retail chain: 156 outlets with 4.4 million square feet of space stocked with everything from housewares to bridesmaids' dresses.
Other than inventing the scale-based supply-chain-squeeze model of retail, which must go down as one of the great business innovations of all time, Wal-Mart is hardly known as a foresight-based player.
Self-made European billionaires include a pair Germans, retail magnate Hugo Mann and supermarket-chain founder Eugen Viehof, plus Swiss data-processing executive Walter Haefner.
The combined company is 52%-owned by German retail chain KarstadtQuelle, which was the parent of Thomas Cook, and 48%-owned by the shareholders of MyTravel.
For one, she refused to bail out Arcandor, the huge, now-bankrupt German retail chain.
AutoNation Inc. announced something new under the sun today, a coast-to-coast auto retail chain with a uniform brand name.
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More than 160 people are to lose their jobs after a 146-year-old Dundee-based shoe retail chain failed to find a buyer for its business.
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The product also boasts a flexible and innovative distribution channel, as Max Life has signed an agreement with a national retail chain, I-SERV, to let policyholders manage their policies at 12, 500 of its stores.
Most of the chain-store retail sales numbers out Thursday morning were quite disappointing.
Despite its name, the company is not limited to selling its products through online sources. 1-800-Flowers.com also manages and franchises a chain of brick-and-mortar retail stores.
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Helping to drive sales but to temporarily depress profits was the acquisition out of bankruptcy of Clinton Cards, a U.K.-based chain of 400 retail card shops.
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Family Dollar Stores operates a chain of self-service retail discount stores primarily for low- and middle-income consumers.
Is your brand invisibly tied to supply-chain paths like roadways and retail outlets that are either deteriorating or undergoing drastic change?
More recently and controversially, Pejic modeled a push-up bra for the Dutch retail chain HEMA. He was also named one of FHM Magazine's 100 Sexiest Women in the World in 2011.
Operates BMW Lifestyle retail chain in China, and, with brother Edward, controls chain of Hong Kong-listed PCD luxury department stores.
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The Slovene retail chain Mercator bought many stores in ex-Yugoslav states, expecting the standard of living to rise as their countries got closer to EU membership.
Fendi sent Burlington a cease-and-desist letter, but when the retail chain kept selling the bags, Fendi filed a new lawsuit in 2006 against Burlington for violation of trademark and for contempt of the 1987 injunction.
That a national retail chain is reportedly meeting with an 18-year old who, because he felt marginalized, launched a campaign that now boasts nearly 70, 000 supporters and counting, shines a spotlight on the democratizing quality of the digital arena.
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Buffett increased his position in Wal-Mart from 19.9 million shares to 39 million shares and added to his ownership of Wells Fargo, a bank battered by the financial crisis, as well as U.S. Bancorp, drug giant Sanofi-Aventis and Tesco, a British retail chain.
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Setton announced a recall, Kraft removed its Back To Nature Trail Mix from store shelves, and Kroger -- a grocery chain with stores in 31 states -- recalled Private Selection shelled pistachios from its retail stores.
Mera and ex-husband Amancio Ortega founded the blockbuster Zara retail chain together, sewing dressing gowns and lingerie from their home.
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Retail sales data comes out on Tuesday in the U.S.. So far, chain store sales performed well in the week ending May 12 with the ICSC-Goldman Sachs weekly U.S. retail chain store sales index growing 4.5% on the year and the Johnson Redbook retail sales index increasing by 3.7% on the year.
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