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Lacasa store concept will grow our business 2 times by 2020: Manish Bhatia, HSIL

We will be investing approximately Rs 2-3 crore each in setting up 10 Lacasa stores covering around 40,000-50,000 sq. ft. area till 2020.




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Jaquar aims $1 bn turnover by 2022, to open 15 stores globally

The company, which aspires to be a global brand in the segment, is in the process of opening 15 exclusive brand showroom 'Jaquar world' across the globe.




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Bed Bath & Beyond shakes up board amid investor pressure, co-founders step down

Shares of the New Jersey-based home furnishing retailer fell about 3 percent in mid-day trade.




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Covid-19 fear: Electronics brands Samsung, Apple let offline stores sell online

Samsung has created an ecommerce platform in partnership with Benow.in along with mobile phone retailers across the country that will allow them to sell and deliver smartphones. Offline stores are also being used to fulfil orders placed on Samsung’s e-store for television and appliances.




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Lockdown to have huge impact on heavy appliances sector: Godrej

"The heavy appliances industry will be impacted by a significant loss of up to 60 per cent in March and almost 100 per cent in April. These two months put together contribute close to 25 per cent of the annual revenue," Godrej Appliances Business Head and EVP Kamal Nandi told.




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Ashraf ElArman appointed Managing Director of Xerox India

Documentation solutions firm Xerox today announced the appointment of Ashraf ElArman as Managing Director of its Indian unit, effective June 22.




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Toy maker Funskool inaugurates new factory in Ranipet

"The company will invest another Rs 15 crore in another three months. The factory is close to Chennai port, thereby facilitating easy exports to our buyers abroad. We are happy to inaugurate our third manufacturing facility in India and production has already begun ,” said John Baby, chief executive officer (CEO), Funskool.




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World's top toymaker joins companies leaving China's factories

The world’s largest publicly traded toymaker, which has licenses for popular franchises such as “Frozen” and the “Avengers,” said US goods produced in China could drop to about 50% by the end of 2020, from just under two-thirds currently.




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Reliance opens 100th Hamleys store in India

Hamleys entered Indian in 2010 with its first store at High Street Phoenix Mumbai and is currently the largest toy retailer in India with 100 stores in 36 cities.




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Bharti Realty talks to French chain Lafayette for 1st store

The company has also held discussions with Cupertino based tech giant Apple for what could be the iPhone maker’s second flagship store in the country to be located at Aerocity near IGI Airport, sources said.




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Prada picks Bengaluru-based BigThinx for its fashion tech accelerator programme

BigThinx’s neural networks create a personalised 3D virtual avatar from 2D images for fashion brands and their customers.




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LVMH to make sanitising gel instead of perfumes, make-up at 3 factories in France, distribute it for free to hospitals

Twelve tons of the gel will be produced as soon as this week.




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Armani to make single use medical overalls at all its Italian factories

Giorgio Armani has donated 2 million euros in recent weeks to hospitals around Italy.




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Tanishq announces to open its 328 stores across the country in a phased manner

The company will continue to strictly comply with all government rules while reopening and running operations at the store. The company plans to reopen first 50 stores by 10th May, 2020.




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Pepe Jeans, Tom Ford & Max Mara are least transparent fashion brands, likely to have poor working conditions in factories

The annual index by advocacy group Fashion Revolution - now in its fifth year - ranked 250 of the world's biggest brands according to how much information they disclose about their social and environmental policies, practices and outcomes.




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Bangladesh garment factories reopen, defying virus lockdown

"We have to accept coronavirus as part of life. If we don't open factories, there will be economic crisis," said Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association vice president Mohammad Hatem.




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Fashion shift online picks up even as stores reopen

H&M, the world's second-biggest fashion retailer, said local currency sales had tumbled 57% in the March 1-May 6 period, while online sales grew almost a third.




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Prince Harvey secretly recorded an entire album in Apple Store SoHo in four months

Rapper Prince Harvey, after his computer crashed and his external drive was stolen, managed to record an entire album in Apple Store SoHo in four months, befriending employees, hiding files and using USB sticks and mail. as support. Abbie Hoffman




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GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s

GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.

 




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Toonz Retail sets to start 10 new stores, considering 5 cr investments

Toonz is also launching new collection of its home brand Wowmom, Superyoung and Superyoung Celebration.




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Alexa, report to the e-commerce regulator

​​​The intention is to bring all B2B, B2C, consumer-facing, consumer-based content platforms, apps-based commerce and IoT device-based services under the policy, potentially engulfing products like the Amazon Echo, which is powered by artificial intelligence-driven virtual assistant Alexa, and MG Hector, the Internet-enabled vehicle from Morris Garages in the regulatory realm of e-commerce.




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Beauty and Wellness Sector Skill Council inks pact with CIDESCO

Zurich-based Committee International d'Esthtique et de Cosmtologie (CIDESCO) is considered world standard for Beauty and Spa Therapy.




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Molton Brown plans to enter India's hospitality sector next fiscal

The company, which plans to open 15 stores across India over the next five years, at present has one store in India. It entered India in June this year.




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Covid-19 outbreak: Delhi government to check hoarding of sanitisers, fine violators

Since hand sanitisers have been declared as essential commodity under the Essential Commodities Act, action can be taken against dealers involved in hoarding and black-marketing of the product. The retailer/ manufacturer/ trader overcharging a consumer can be prosecuted under the Legal Metrology Act, 2009, and Packaged Commodities Rules, 2011, the government said in a statement.




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Government bans export of sanitisers, all types of ventilators

“The export of all ventilators including any artificial respiratory apparatus or oxygen therapy apparatus or any other breathing appliance/devices... is prohibited with immediate effect,” the the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said in a notification.




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Investors bid $2.2bn for sportsgear marketer Reebok

Eight years after acquiring US rival, Reebok, seems like German sports gear marketer - Adidas has put Reebok on the block.




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Adidas India appoints Dave Thomas as new managing director

Dave will report directly to Osman Ayaz, Managing Director of the Emerging Markets adidas Group, the company said in a statement.




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Heart failure patient hits out at AXM defibrillator vandal

Jim Tees should check his facts before jumping in with both feet and looking foolish.




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Director Alice Wu On Her New Film 'The Half Of It'

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Photographer Says To Document This Historic Time Now

Someday, the COVID-19 pandemic will be history. And that’s why one DeKalb County photographer is urging people to document it now. Bob Myers took his wife’s advice. She’s DeKalb County historian Sue Breese, and she encouraged him to photograph the empty store shelves, the empty parking lots, and the altered daily interactions that are now part of life under the State’s stay-at-home order. In turn, Myers turned to social media to ask other DeKalb County residents to join the effort. For him, it’s important to keep the project local because it “makes it hit home more.” Myers has received photos of closed businesses, school lunch distributions, the parking lot tents at Kishwaukee Hospital, and a mother and daughter touching hands through a closed glass door. Of course, there’s a touch of humor, too. One photo is of a downtown Sycamore icon, the statue of Pumpkinfest founder Wally Thurow standing next to his old-time bicycle. Someone had already thrown a scarf around his neck for winter.




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Sessions from Studio A - Micky Torpedo

We have a unique episode of Sessions from Studio A this week. Like so many others, the current pandemic has put our normal work on hiatus. Join us for a special "quarantined" edition of the show featuring ambient music from Rockford's Micky Torpedo. Micky is releasing four ambient albums this year, based on the changing moods of each season. We'll hear music from his Winter and Spring Cycle albums this hour. We also sat down to chat virtually with Micky about his approach to writing music, as well as his involvment in Rockford's Rock and Roll Institute. You can keep up with Micky on his Facebook page and download his music on Bandcamp .




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Rockford Will Lose Its Last Kmart Store In September

The East State Street Kmart in Rockford and four Sears stores elsewhere in Illinois have been targeted by Sears Holdings to close in early September. The Kmart store on Sandy Hollow Road in Rockford closed in early April this year. A Kmart store formerly located at Riverside Boulevard and Forest Hills Road closed more than a decade ago and was replaced by a Sears Essentials store, which closed in 2011. While reporting a net loss of $424 million in its quarterly report this morning, Sears Holdings announced it had identified 100 unprofitable stores across the country, “72 of which will begin store closing sales in the near future. ” A list of 15 Kmart stores and 48 Sears stores was posted on the corporate website early this afternoon. The announcement included this statement: “We continue to evaluate our network of stores, which are a critical component in our transformation, and will make further adjustments as needed and as warranted.” It said a small group of stores was pulled from




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Sears Hometown Stores In Sterling, Plano Will Be Closed

Sears Hometown Stores in Sterling, Plano and Moline will be closing during the current business quarter, the company announced over the weekend. The websites for all three stores already are announcing “Store in liquidation” sales. They are among “90 to 100” underperforming Sears Hometown locations remaining after 21 stores were closed in the previous quarter, President and Chief Executive Officer Will Powell said in the quarterly earnings announcement. Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, Inc. , was spun off from Sears Holdings Corp. in 2012. Most of the 882 Sears Hometown locations are independently owned and operated, offering Sears brands like Kenmore and Craftsman as well as other national brands. The Sterling and Plano stores both are owned by Sean Austin, according to Plano Sears Hometown Store Manager Redell Morgan. He said the last day for the Plano store will be July 23. Morgan said he is the only full-time employee at the Plano location, which has six part-time employees. The




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Former X Factor star Nicholas McDonald covers Hero with other singers in NHS charity single

FORMER X Factor star Nicholas McDonald has announced he is covering Mariah Carey's hit hero with other singers to raise money for the NHS Covid-19 appeal.




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The story of the Chicago Black Sox scandal

ONE of the biggest sporting scandals of all time was just about to erupt in the USA 100 years ago this month. It was in the spring of 1920 that a persistent rumour engulfed the Chicago White Sox baseball team.




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The Lions' pride: The four brothers who made football history with Livingston

ONE of the first things you notice about the Jacobs brothers is that they finish each other’s sentences.




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Juniors: Pollok storm to Scottish Cup semis with win over Neilston

Neilston’s aspirations of making a first-ever Macron Scottish Junior Cup semi-final appearance were given a reality check in quite atrocious footballing conditions at Brig O’Lea on Saturday.




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Tom Hardy will return to CBeebies for more Bedtime Stories - here's when you can watch

Hollywood actor Tom Hardy will read out more 'Bedtime Stories' for children's channel CBeebies.




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Glasgow comedians Ashley Storrie and friends on pre-lockdown adventures in new show, 'Up for It'

Glasgow certainly looked different before the coronavirus lockdown.




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Brainstorm Scary Creatures Review

Nevermind the freaky ghoulish creatures behind the curtains... the music inside will make you a proud Brainiac.

Brainstorm return with a solid effort that takes a step forward in the evolution of their sound while staying true to the Power Metal subgenre.




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Singer Marti Pellow says he is proud of hometown Clydebank and shipbuilding history

SINGER Marti Pellow has told fans he is proud of his Scottish roots and hometown Clydebank.




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Meet the dance instructors offering Strictly-style classes in Glasgow

THE country may be in lockdown, but a pair of Glasgow-based dance instructors at least managed to step out in style after their students struck gold at the WDC World Championships in Dublin before the coronavirus chaos enveloped the world.




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Letters of the day: Tory council leader told of Thatcher's impact on Glasgow

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Tory View: Glasgow's firms are about to go bust because of council failings

I DIDN’T think I’d be writing again this week about Glasgow City Council’s administration of Coronavirus Business Support Grant funding but the poor progress made over the past seven days has compelled me to continue to shine a spotlight on this issue.




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SPFL directors hit back at Rangers for 'baseless, damaging and self-serving attacks' following release of dossier

SPFL directors have today issued their detailed response to claims made in Rangers' dossier yesterday.




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Bayer Leverkusen sporting director Simon Rolfes wants Rangers behind closed doors to ensure Europa League conclusion

Bayer Leverkusen sporting director Simon Rolfes has urged Uefa to allow his side to play Rangers behind closed doors - to ensure the tournament is completed this season.




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Celtic monitoring progress of promising Cherno More striker Martin Minchev

Celtic are monitoring the progress of promising young Bulgarian striker Martin Minchev.




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Boots 'temporarily' closes 60 branches across the UK - full list of stores

Health, beauty and pharmacy chain Boots has said it is 'temporarily closing' 60 of its branches during the UK lockdown.




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Colorado Springs Shares Proposed Changes To Historic Downtown Parks

The city of Colorado Springs has launched a digital survey and open house highlighting community response and future plans for three historic downtown parks.




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Shortening The Distance: Walsenburg Historian Reflects On The Great Depression And Today’s Pandemic

With all that's going on in the world right now, we wondered what life experience and family history might be able to tell us. As part of KRCC's Shortening the Distance project, producer Shanna Lewis got in touch with historian Carolyn Newman. She's 88 years old and has lived in the same house in Walsenburg for 60 years.