Iceland rescues some Woolworths jobs, stores

Frozen food store Iceland Foods Ltd. came to the partial rescue of collapsed retailer Woolworths on Friday, saying it plans to create 2,500 jobs after buying 51 former Woolworths stores.

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Last Woolworths stores turn out lights in Britain

Bankrupt department store chain Woolworths, a stalwart of British retailing for 100 years, turned out the lights at the final 200 of its 807 shops on Tuesday.

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Doors close at about 200 Woolworths in Britain

About 200 Woolworths stores in Britain have shut their doors for good.

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Woolworths stores to shut by early January

Administrators for Woolworths announced plans Wednesday to close all the retailer's stores by the early new year, signaling the end of the road for the venerable British company and the loss of almost 30,000 jobs.

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Woolworths ramps up retail discounting war

Woolworths PLC began a massive sale on Friday — raising the stakes for its peers by slashing prices by up to 50 percent — after talks between the troubled retailer's financial administrator and a potential buyer failed.

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Woolworths desperate for buyer amid retail turmoil

Just a year shy of celebrating its centenary, retailer Woolworths Group PLC was on the verge of collapse Thursday as financial administrators appointed to the company raced to find a buyer for its 800-strong chain of outmoded stores.

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Woolworths plunges on news it may sell stores

Woolworths Group PLC's shares plunged 38 percent Wednesday after the company confirmed it is considering selling its retail business.

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Bonehead Biz: $1.1 million for the letter 'S'

And you thought the dot-com bubble burst years ago: A British travel company has paid $1.1 million for the Internet domain name cruises.co.uk, a price that is effectively a million bucks just for the letter "S" since it already owns the address cruise.co.uk.

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Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths are being blamed for Australians paying the fastest growing prices for groceries in the world.

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WOOLWORTHS insists its new logo is a stylised W, or a piece of fresh produce; Apple thinks it is an apple, and the California-based technology company wants to stop Australia's largest retailer from using it.

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Now we will see the real test of a conglomerate in the modern corporate age. Wesfarmers boss Richard Goyder faces a battle on two fronts - and from the same wily enemy, chief rival Woolworths.

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Woolworths, then and now Gosh it has been years since I have seen a Woolworths, when I was a kid in the 1960's my mom and I would venture a trip to the local Woolworths. Good times. This slide show was a nice reminder.

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Retail giant Woolworths is defying current economic trends, saying it expects to create 7,000 Australian jobs in the next four months.

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Claire Robertson , the manager of a Woolworths store that was forced to close when the company collapsed is to re-open it herself under the name Wellworths.

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Woolworths has been given the kiss of life as an online-only store after Shop Direct bought the now defunct UK High Street retailer's brand name.

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Frozen food retailer Iceland has bought 51 former Woolworths stores, and said it plans to create 2,500 new jobs. The announcement comes just three days after the final 200 Woolworths stores closed their doors for the last time.

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The American version of the retail chain Woolworths went out of business in 1997. In 2008, poor Christmas sales and a faltering economy finally caught up with the British version.

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A Star Wars lightsaber has been banned by troubled retailer Woolworths because barmy shop bosses fear it could be mistaken for a gun.

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Woolworths is beginning a closing down sale as hopes fade of a deal to keep the firm in business. Administrators have so far failed to find a buyer who can revive the debt-ridden retail chain.

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IT IS one of the most familiar fixtures on Britain's high streets. Woolworths, the famous "pick'n' mix" retailer, has been a household name for almost 100 years.

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RETAIL chain Woolworths-Safeway has been quietly putting the finishing touches to a service that will make it Australia's newest mobile operator. Nationwide there are about 780 Woolworths and Safeway stores.

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Woolworths says it is the first national grocery retailer to introduce comparative unit pricing, allowing customers to judge which products are best value for money.

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The former chief executive of Woolworths says he has concerns about the survival of Australia's food manufacturing industry.

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MORE than four decades after Safeway supermarkets first opened their doors in Victoria, its owner Woolworths has decided to scrap the name.

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SUPERMARKET giants Coles and Woolworths will be forced to give shoppers more price information and may find it more difficult to block the opening of rival stores under moves aimed at boosting competition in the $70 billion grocery industry.

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RETAIL giant Woolworths is to start trials of a self-checkout system that could ease supermarket queues. The checkout lets customers scan, weigh and pay for groceries using cash, credit or debit cards.

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A FORMER senior technology executive of Woolworths has been charged with nine counts of fraud after allegedly swindling almost $4 million from the retailing giant over several years.

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A bid by Woolworths to acquire some assets from the proposed Coles takeover has been thwarted by the competition watchdog. Woolworths had wanted to buy some of Coles assets including Officeworks and Kmart.

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A man brandishing a knife slashed himself across the throat in a Cornish town's Woolworths store. Penzance shoppers fled in panic as the man entered the store at about 1500 BST on Thursday.

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The supermarket chain Woolworths has agreed to abolish youth wage rates in its New Zealand subsidiaries.

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If ever there was a reason to support the organic food movement and the MLA MSA accredited orache saltbush fed lamb this is it.

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Co-chair of the Food & Beverage Taskforce, Tony Nowell has summed up the current retail situation perfectly when he states that "the consumer products industry is consolidating rapidly." This is evidenced not only with the Woolworths / Foodstuffs battle to obtain Warehouse but  …

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Woolworths UK has been embroiled in several takeover rumours in 2006 , it seems 2007 will be a continuation unless this current speculative bid is successful.

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