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In 2023, REI bled money, losing $311 million, its second year of losses in a row while sales slipped 2.4% to $3.76 billion, hurt by a shrinking outdoor-gear market and REI’s own missteps.
B&Q expanded into China during 1999, building up a chain of nearly 40 shops, but opted to sell a 70% controlling stake of operations in China to Wumart in 2015, due to poor sales. [46] B&Q's parent company had previously sold its 50% stake in B&Q Taiwan in 2007 in order to focus on what was then a rapidly growing business in China. [10]
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The completion of Merry Hill resulted in the loss of many big name retailers from nearby town centres, with Dudley being the hardest hit, suffering an estimated 70% decline in retailing market share between 1985 and 1990. [34] However, some retailers kept their stores in nearby towns open, despite opening new stores at Merry Hill. [35]
Some children work as guides for tourists, sometimes combined with bringing in business for shops and restaurants. Child labour predominantly occurs in the rural areas (70%) and informal urban sector (26%). Contrary to popular belief, most child labourers are employed by their parents rather than in manufacturing or formal economy.
Sales were initially poor, and by the early 1990s, Motorola held a market share of over 60 percent in the country's mobile phone market compared to just 10 percent for Samsung. [25] Samsung's mobile phone division also struggled with poor quality and inferior [ clarification needed ] products until the mid-1990s, and exit from the sector was a ...
The sale and production of absinthe was prohibited in Finland from 1919 to 1932; no current prohibitions exist. The government-owned chain of liquor stores ( Alko ) is the only outlet that may sell alcoholic beverages containing over 8% ABV, although national law bans the sale of alcoholic beverages containing over 80% ABV.
A 50-year-old Tamil grandmother told the Human Rights Watch that when she and her family, along with 20 others, surrendered to the Sri Lankan Army in Matalan in late March 2009, they were all forced to strip naked and all the women were made to walk around the soldiers in a circle while the soldiers laughed at them. All the women were then ...