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Chemist Warehouse Group (trading as Sigma Healthcare Ltd) [3] is an Australian company operating a chain of retail pharmacies both locally and internationally. The company is one of Australia's largest pharmacy retailers with over 500 stores in Australia, [ 4 ] and employs over 20,000 staff. [ 5 ]
Original logo for the Australian chain, in use from 1969 to 1992 Logo in use from 1992 to 2006, still used as a secondary logo. Kmart Australia Limited was created out of a joint venture between G.J Coles & Coy Limited (Coles) and the S.S. Kresge Company, owner of Kmart USA.
Below is a list of notable defunct retailers of the United States.. Across the United States, a large number of local stores and store chains that started between the 1920s and 1950s have become defunct since the late 1960s, when many chains were either consolidated or liquidated.
Later that year, it recruited cricketers Matthew Hayden and Michael Bevan as models for its summer catalogue. [17] Shane Warne signed a two-year contract worth almost AU$100,000 in May 2005 to become the face of Tarocash and appear in the retailer's catalogues. Warne was dropped from upcoming catalogues two months later, as the company reviewed ...
Coles Radio is the brand name for the in-store radio station heard across all Coles' supermarkets. It is owned and operated in partnership with broadcaster Nova Entertainment and adopts a hot adult contemporary format, featuring a playlist consisting of pop hits from the 1980s, '90s, 2000s and current hits. The station has one announcer, Meg ...
After the acquisition, the first Bunnings Warehouse was opened on August 24, 1994 in the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine. [12] Present at the official opening were the Victorian premier Jeff Kennett , American actor Richard Karn [ citation needed ] who played Al Borland on the television sitcom Home Improvement , and Joe Boros, the managing ...
JB Hi-Fi was established in the Melbourne suburb of Keilor East by John Barbuto in 1974, selling music and specialist hi-fi equipment. [3] Barbuto sold the business in 1983 to Richard Bouris, David Rodd and Peter Caserta, who expanded JB Hi-Fi into a chain of ten stores in Melbourne and Sydney turning over $150 million by 2000, when they sold the majority of their holding to private equity.
A. M. Bickford and Sons was one of the first manufacturing chemists in South Australia.Until 1930, it was one of the State's most significant family-owned companies. In 1930, they amalgamated with half a dozen other similar Australian companies to form "Drug Houses of Australia" (DHA), which continued to produce "A. M. Bickford and Sons" products: "drugs" and "chemicals" under the DHA brand ...