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B&M Retail Limited, trading as B&M, is a British multinational variety store chain founded in 1978 and based in Speke. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange, and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. B&M is part of the Luxembourg-based B&M European Value Retail S.A., which owns Heron Foods and operates the B&M (formerly Babou) stores in ...
Bryant & May "Pearl" safety matches, 1890–1891. Bryant & May was formed in 1843 by Quakers William Bryant and Francis May to trade in general merchandise. In 1850 the company entered into a relationship with the Swedish match maker Johan Edvard Lundström in order to capture part of the market of the 250 million matches that were used in Britain each day.
On March 28, 1883, the boards of directors of B&M and the Eastern Railroad Company voted to ratify the proposition that Eastern Railroad would be leased by B&M. [2] However, a disagreement about the wording of the contract delayed its execution until December 2, 1884. [3] [4] On May 9, 1890, B&M purchased Eastern Railroad outright. [5]
Furness Quay Tower 4 56 (184) 17 2020 Residential Salford Quays Furness Quay Tower 4 is the fourth-tallest tower in a scheme in the heart of Salford Quays delivering over 750 apartments. The scheme involves the conversion of Furness House and Custom House, two 1970s office buildings.
It is a part of the Asia Plaza Tri-Tower Complex, that comprise three buildings, located in the new CBD of Asia New Bay Area. [27] [28] 103 GIFT Diamond Tower: 410 m (1,350 ft) 2002 Skyscraper Commercial India Gandhinagar: Diamond Tower and the core CBD of GIFT will comprise a total of 25,800,000 sq ft (2,400,000 m 2). [29] 87 Solar updraft tower
Belém Tower (Portuguese: Torre de Belém, pronounced [ˈtoʁɨ ðɨ βɨˈlɐ̃j]; literally: Bethlehem Tower), officially the Tower of Saint Vincent (Portuguese: Torre de São Vicente) is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon that served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon.
A mid-tower computer case from c. 2011. In personal computing, a tower unit, or simply a tower, is a form factor of desktop computer case whose height is much greater than its width, thus having the appearance of an upstanding tower block, as opposed to a traditional "pizza box" computer case whose width is greater than its height and appears lying flat.
Dundee (/ d ʌ n ˈ d iː / ⓘ; Scots: Dundee; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Dè or Dùn Dèagh, pronounced [t̪un ˈtʲeː]) is the fourth-largest city in Scotland.The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was 148,210, giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km 2 (6,420/mi 2), the second-highest in Scotland.