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...Trail Goes Cold With a series of high-profile acquisitions over the past two years, Jon Asgeir Johannesson has become the best-known Icelander in Britain after singer Björk. Through privately held retail and real estate company Baugur, Johannesson, 37, has snapped up the famous London toy store Hamleys, fashion chains including Karen Millen and Oasis, jeweler Goldsmiths and, last year, the Big Food Group (which owns a supermarket chain called, handily, Iceland). But now, just as he's on the verge of his biggest deal to date, a $1.7 billion takeover of Somerfield, Britain's fifth largest...
What will it take? Pirates need to be shut down and held accountable. There need to be more channels, more mass retail, more legitimate video, more theaters and more films released in the market. That would go a long...
...self-described “rag man,” Cassell wants to “rehab” the building and keep Garment District retail operations at 200 Broadway...
Cassell and Halperin are developing plans to renovate or replace the building, and Cassell said the tentative plan is for condos upstairs with retail space on the first floor...
...North America and reminded me of what happened in the book business. Our family owned a small, moderately successful bookstore for nearly 20 years, but when I first walked into a chain bookstore in the U.S. and saw all the top sellers at as much as 40% off retail, I thought, We're dead. Sure enough, a few years later, we closed our doors. I sense the same thing in the print news. If an old geezer like me gets most of my news off the Internet, what about 20- and 30-year-olds? It is so much more convenient...