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The Body Shop Australia facing ‘cashflow crisis’

Inside Retail

The newspaper said it understands “the future of the chain is hanging in the balance as it struggles to cover large debts”. The brand was founded in 1976 by the late Dame Anita Roddick who sold the business to L’Oreal in 2006 for £652 million, which later onsold it to Natura in 2017 for £880 million.

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RetailNext and KPMG to co-chair Retail Think Tank’s quarterly Retail Health Index

Retail Focus

First established in 2006 by KPMG and market research leader, Ipsos, the Retail Health Index is the industry’s only comprehensive, sector-level benchmark of retail performance.

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How Can Anthropology And Architecture Converge To Shape The Office Of Tomorrow?

All Work

For example, as ethnographers of finance sectors observe, the spatial arrangement of where traders sit on the trading floor has an impact on how they see and hear other traders, access technologies, and receive and interpret information (Downey and Fisher, 2006).

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Transforming Workspaces: Exploring the Power of Commercial Office Interior Design

Greater Group

A capable commercial office interior designer will be able to balance the company’s branding with the functional requirements of the workspace in a way that aligns with the entire brand experience. 2006, but the Australian government recommended level for general work areas is 160 lux.

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The fall of Debenhams and Arcadia was inevitable: both shackled by earlier financial engineering.

Nelson Blackley

They raised £1.1bn of debt to pay for Debenhams and then quickly shifted it onto the balance sheet. Debenhams was then re-listed on the stock market in 2006 but the high fixed costs with which it was burdened made it impossible to invest in its hundreds of stores and so really compete with the new online competition it was now facing.

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A new sensorial dialogue between men and things with Giovanni Levanti

Design Wanted

” Sneaker, a domestic gym for Campeggi, 2006 – ©Giovanni Levanti. In this sense, home comfort is one of the themes that fascinated me the most because comfort is one of the main characteristics that we have always associated with the concept of home.” ” Shapes study for Nativo, 2012 – ©Giovanni Levanti.

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Why Europe Can’t Kick Russian Gas

Robinson Meyer

And because of the declining production of Europe, but also because of a number of shocks you had in 2006—when the Russians and the Ukrainians fought for the first time over contract terms—you also have a much greater awareness of security of supply. But when I write about, like, seasonal balancing—that stuff is not going to go away.

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