who are claire's stores stakeholders?
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Lots of people. The largest stakes are held by Barclays Global Investors International, Rowland Schaefer, Royce & Associates, and Northern Trust Company.
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Have you seen the TV commercial where the customers are dealing with sales consultant who don't know anything about the items in their department??? If a customer needs help, and so does the s.r., what good is the s.r.? Customers are lost that way.\n\nIts good for business.
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they make purchases of products on behalf of the company employer for either use internally or re-sale to consumers.\n\ne.g....the Intel example (buyer sources raw materials to be used internally for the manufacture of end-products used by the consumer).... OR....buyer for Neiman Marcus would make purchase of end-products (buy directly from designers and so forth) for re-sale to the consumer. In the retail industry/merchandising, Buyers are very important and often very well paid.
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Hudson's Bay Company \n401 Bay St., Ste. 500\nToronto, Ontario M5H 2Y4, Canada\nPhone: 416-861-6112\nFax: 416-861-4720\n\nhttp://www.hbc.com  \n\nHudson's Bay Company (HBC) is Canada's largest department store chain. Founded in 1670 as a fur trading enterprise, HBC is also Canada's oldest corporation. The company's Zellers chain is Canada's #2 discount department store (behind Wal-Mart Canada), with nearly 300 stores. HBC also runs nearly 100 The Bay department stores, more than 100 smaller Fields general merchandise and apparel stores in western Canada, 45 Home Outfitters superstores, and Hbc.com, an e-commerce site. HBC was acquired in 2006 by Maple Leaf Heritage Investments of the US for about $957 million.\n\nLed by the South Carolina billionaire investor Jerry Zucker, Maple Leaf has acquired 63% of the department store chain's shares, adding to the 19% stake of HBC's shares it already held. (Zucker has extended his offer for the retailer's remaining shares, at which time the stock will be delisted.) HBC's board rejected Zucker's original offer, tendered in October 2005, as inadequate but did not rule out the possibility of a takeover at a loftier price. In January 2006 Zucker sweetened his bid for HBC to $13.25 per share from $12.85.\n\nFollowing the acquisition, George Heller retired as president and CEO of the company and was succeeded as CEO by Zucker and Michael Rousseau (formerly the CFO of the company) as president. Zucker also became chairman of the new board of directors.\n\nHBC, along with other Canadian retailers, has been hurt by competition from US newcomers, including Wal-Mart Canada and Costco Wholesale Canada.\n\nMass merchandiser Zellers, which accounts for about 60% of company sales, is facing increasing pressure from discounters and specialty stores, such as Best Buy. Wal-Mart Canada operates nearly 250 discount stores throughout Canada, as well as six SAM'S CLUB outlets in Ontario. As a countermeasure, HBC has been renovating and enlarging its Zellers stores and enlisting hot designers, including Mossimo, to promote the image of an upscale discounter (à la Target), along with introducing smaller Zellers Select stores in smaller markets and emphasizing private labels in all of its stores. The company has signed a deal with Salton, whereby Westinghouse-branded products and a new line of home appliances are available across HBC's retail banners. Hilary Duff's line of merchandise ("Stuff by Duff"), which features fashion apparel and accessories as well as home accessories and cosmetics, made its debut in Zellers stores in spring 2004.\n\nThe company is considering selling its credit card portfolio with C$1.2 billion in receivables, representing 3.1 million active accounts. Earlier this year rival Sears Canada sold its credit card business for a hefty premium. Also, to cut costs, HBC has announced that it is laying off about 825 management and administrative staff.\n\nHBC's the Bay traditional department stores focus on more-upscale fashion merchandise and home furnishings, and its Home Outfitters superstores (launched in 1999) emphasize bedding and linens. Fast-growing Home Outfitters opened eight locations in 2003 and four more stores in 2004.\n\nHBC's retail reach stretches from Newfoundland to British Columbia.
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...belong to bidness. A coralled consumer is the best consumer. Diversity is the enemy. \nBusiness would rather make a lot of one, then one a lot (unless of course, the one was a park).
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Ill tell u why- its b/c these people have no brains!!!! Where is the Nordstrom or the Bloomingdales???? Lets call up Sunrise Mall and find outt!!!!! I see what u r saying but there is def no possibility of mall reconstruction needless to say about the unfabulous Walmart that they have going on. Simon should have took it over and thats that!!!!=)
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The Target Corporation has slimmed down to compete with Walmart and K-Mart in the United States.\n\nThe nation's #2 discount chain (behind Wal-Mart) now operates nearly 1,400 Target and SuperTarget stores in 47 states, as well as an online business called Target.com. After years of struggling to turn around its Marshall Field's and Mervyns departments stores divisions, the discounter sold them both in 2004. Target and its cousins, including SuperTarget, which sells groceries, and Target Greatland, have carved out a niche by offering more upscale, fashion-forward merchandise than rivals Wal-Mart and Kmart. Target also owns apparel supplier The Associated Merchandising Corp. and issues Target Visa and its proprietary Target Card.\n\nFollowing the sale of Marshall Field's to The May Department Stores Co. and Mervyns to a group of private-investment firms, Target is finally free to focus on its core discount store business. The country's #2 discounter plans to add more than 600 new stores over the next five years, bringing its store count to more than 2,000 stores nationwide. It is also expanding its SuperTarget format (about 140 outlets), a newer 174,000-sq.-ft. grocery/discount store concept that includes groceries under the Archer Farms brand. In addition, SuperTarget has broadening its private-label offerings to include about 2,900 different products under the premium Archer Farms and lower-cost Market Pantry brands. Other formats include Target Greatland (70% larger than regular Targets) and a growing online store called target.com. (Target.com is the third most visited retail Web site behind eBay and Amazon, beating out Wal-Mart.com.) Target has also added dollar sections -- called The One Spot -- to all of its stores. To support its growth, Target is building a huge new regional distribution center in Midway, Georgia, scheduled to open in 2007.\n\nThe #2 discounter is also increasing the selection of merchandise available at Target.com; from about 90,000 items currently, to 200,000 by the end of the year. Increasing online business has also been of focus of late of Target's archrival Wal-Mart.\n\nTarget has distinguished itself from rival Wal-Mart Stores and grown to become the nation's #2 discounter by employing a strategy that relies on exclusive private-label offerings from big name designers. To stay a step ahead of archrival Wal-Mart, which hopes to upgrade its fashion profile with the new Metro 7 line, Target recently launched its Go International program; limited-edition collections from global designers including the UK's Luella Bartley. The Luella for Target collection, available in Target stores for 90 days from February through April is priced higher than previous apparel offerings by the cheap-chic discounter.\n\nOther tie ups with the world of high fashion include Target's long-term partnership with fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, who joined the discounter's stable of in-house talent in mid-2003. Mizrahi offers a line of chic and affordable women's apparel and accessories. Other designers with exclusive lines at Target include Amy Coe (children's bedding and accessories), Liz Lange (maternity), Mossimo (junior fashions), and the architect Michael Graves (housewares).
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tescos has their fingers in many different pies. Retail, Insurance, finance, mobile telecoms, supermarkets etc etc. If there is a sector that they are not in then wait a few weeks! From my understanding they are now trying to move into the real estate market as well!\n\nThere is an astounding figure that, 1 in every 3 pounds spent in a shopping centre in the UK, is spent in Tescos.
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She may own stock in them but Piggly Wiggly has been a part of Bruno's for many years. Bruno's was once controlled by KKR, I don't know if KKR still has a stake in them or not.
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Tesco not only do groceries but credit cards, insurance, mobile phones etc. and are very powerful with fingers in many pies (including their own label ones). I think it is run by some guy in a volcano stroking a white cat.
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I work for the Body Shop and we were floored by the news that the company had been purchased by L'Oreal.  However, we've been assured over and over again that no changes were going to be made.  L'Oreal respects the Body Shop as a company for our products and our values, and hopefully, they will stand by that.  A lot of the higher-ups in our company look at the L'Oreal sale as a kind of honor.  It's amazing to think that such a small company, founded on such great beliefs, is now connected with such a large company with such great buying power.  (At least, that's what they're telling us.)  The goal is to eventually be able to use the strong buying power and just the name of L'Oreal to make an even bigger impact through the causes we support.  Let's hope that happens.  As far as Anita Roddick goes, I think it was a smart business decision on her part.  The Body Shop sales have been down the last couple of years...maybe this will be able to preserve the company.
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I think Sylar might be after Claire next and the other heroes will come together to save her. Of course we know this already, but we don't know who Claire is in danger from. I'm guessing Sylar.
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Mr. Howard Schultz is the current CEO of SBUX.\nSee valuable write up on Starbucks at http://ibooyah.com
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It the L'Oreal Group. Visit the investor relations section on their website: http://www.loreal.com/_en/_ww/index.aspx
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You have to solicit the corporate sponsors, but I think you would be surprised how many will actually donate.  Write a letter, make phone calls, try to set up face-to-face meetings.  \n\nAlso, individual store managers sometimes are given a small discretionary fund with which to make donations (supermarkets, etc.).  \n\nYou are doing noble work.  God bless and continued success!!
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No, it's the two months before Christmas you spend working at the mall! I did that once, I worked at Claire's several years ago ~ yikes!
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Wal-mart\nCarrefour (a french group)\nAuchan  (another french group)\nI'm just guessing. These stores are everywhere!!!