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Uniwide Sales, Inc. Uniwide Sales, Inc. was a retail operator in Metro Manila, Philippines. It was incorporated in January 1975 by Chinese Filipino entrepreneur Jimmy Gow to operate Uniwide commercial shopping centers such as the lease of commercial spaces within the compound of their malls and department stores. Uniwide had about 2,000 employees.
S&R Membership Shopping was established in 2001 as S&R PriceSmart, a franchise of American membership warehouse club chain PriceSmart. [ 1][ 2] The name "S&R" stands for American businessmen Sol and Robert Price, founders of Price Club and PriceSmart. [ 1] PriceSmart was the first major foreign retailer to enter the Philippine market since the ...
Brendan O'Regan established the world's first duty-free shop at Shannon Airport in Ireland in 1947; [6] it remains in operation today. Designed to provide a service for trans-Atlantic airline passengers typically travelling between Europe and North America whose flights stopped for refuelling on outbound and inbound legs of their journeys, it was an immediate success and has been copied worldwide.
An estimated 800,000 sari-sari stores hold a significant portion of the domestic retail market and the country’s GDP. 13 percent or Php 1.3 trillion of the Philippines GDP of Php 9.7 trillion in the year 2011 came from retail, which is composed largely of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) or small businesses like sari-sari ...
A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic appearance in the middle of the 19th century, and permanently reshaped shopping habits, and the definition ...
Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells in smaller quantities to consumers for a profit. Retailers are the final link in the supply ...
Little Waitrose – convenience shop format for John Lewis' Waitrose Supermarkets; Londis – owned by Booker Retail Partners GB; M Local – convenience shop format for Morrisons Supermarkets; Mace – convenience shop format for Palmer & Harvey wholesale; McColl's – trades under the Martin, McColls and RS McColl; Morning, Noon & Night ...
Website. shopmetro .ph. Metro Retail Stores Group Inc. (stylized as METRO Retail Stores Group Inc., shortly known as Metro Retail or Metro) is a retail company based in Mandaue, Cebu, Philippines. According to a 2014 report by Euromonitor, Metro is the largest operator of department stores and hypermarkets in the Visayas region, as well as the ...