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Trusted Shops is a company founded in Cologne, Germany in 1999, which offers online shops and their customers trust-building services by means of a trustmark, a money-back guarantee process and a system of customer reviews. Online retailers are also provided with assistance in meeting legal requirements.
Topeka - discount department store chain, founded in 1967, downsized due to economic problems ultimately closing in the 2010s. Kmart - national department store chain, established on the island in 1964 at the San Patricio Plaza shopping mall, closed last store in 2022 located at the Plaza Las Américas shopping mall.
In the 1960s, the Wilhelm Hornbach OHG was in a bad state, so his grandson Otmar Hornbach launched the idea of a do-it-yourself home improvement store after a visit to the United States. The business was filed on the stock exchange in 1987 and has expanded to a chain of 163 stores. Otmar Hornbach died on 2 August 2014. [3]
European retailers are investing in physical shops to stimulate both online and offline sales as they face increasing competition from giant e-commerce companies, such as fast-fashion group Shein.
The department store is located on Calle Real and is also claimed to be the first to introduce the "fixed price" policy in merchandising in the country and was known to be "the store that sold everything from needle to anchor." It offered groceries, hardware, stationery, toys, watches, jewelry, machinery, buttons, threads etc. [142]
WE has approximately 240 shops and 3,000 employees in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Austria and Switzerland. WE is part of the European fashion conglomerate Logo International, which also owns the brands O'Neill and Van Gils.
Flying Tiger Copenhagen (formerly Tiger) is a Danish variety store chain. [3] [4] Its first shop opened in Copenhagen in 1995 and as of 2023, the chain now has 931 shops across 42 countries. Its largest markets are Denmark, the UK, Italy, and Spain. According to the company's annual report, it had more than 93 million customers in 2023.
The Network of European Worldshops (NEWS! ) was a network of national associations of Worldshops representing 2,500 shops in 13 member countries: Austria , Belgium , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Ireland , Italy , Netherlands , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , and the United Kingdom .