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In 1967, the first Conforama was opened in Saint-Priest, Rhône in a 2,500-square-metre industrial building. In 1976, Conforama was acquired by Agache-Willot. In 1981, the financial holding company experienced serious legal difficulties, and in 1991, Conforama was acquired by Pinault SA. Conforama set up its first commercial website in 1998. [2]
Spain-Morocco interconnection is a submarine power cable between Tarifa terminal in Spain and Fardioua terminal in Morocco.The purpose of the cable is to connect energy infrastructure between Europe and Africa.
Historically the plazas de soberanía were part of various Muslim empires of north-west Africa. [1] Ceuta was conquered by Portugal in 1415. [2] Following the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula, Spain looked south to the North African coast, capturing Melilla from the Sultanate of Fez in 1497, with Portugal's blessing. [1]
Cora is a chain of hypermarkets owned by Louis Delhaize Group in France, Belgium and the French overseas territory of Mayotte. Cora was founded in 1974 by the supermarket holding Louis Delhaize Group after taking over three Carrefour hypermarkets located in Belgium. [1]
Because of its high population density and location in the centre of Western Europe, Belgium faces serious environmental problems. A 2003 report [13] suggested that the water in Belgium's rivers was of the lowest quality in Europe, and bottom of the 122 countries studied. The environment is exposed to intense pressures from human activities ...
The city was founded by the Spanish captain Antonio de Oro in 1938 as a small military outpost, but quickly became the Spanish Sahara's administrative and political centre. [10] The location was chosen for two reasons: the presence of water and the strategic military position the site offered.
From January 2008 to June 2008, if you bought shares in companies when Katherine D. Ortega joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a 7.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a -12.6 percent return from the S&P 500.
A Royal Air Maroc Boeing 737-800 lands at Atatürk Airport in 2007. Royal Air Maroc (RAM), Morocco's national airline, [1] was founded in July 1953 () from the merger of Air Maroc and Air Atlas. [2] As of February 2014, RAM served a network comprising over 90 destinations, of which 56 are international ones.