Sentence examples for retail joint from inspiring English sources

But it does not do business directly with its own retail joint venture.

Production and profits have soared ever since.Carrefour, a French hypermarket retailer, has built up China's second-largest chain of stores by ignoring the requirement for central-government approval of retail joint ventures.

It financed the purchase of LoveFilm; is a 50% investor in Joyo, a Chinese online retail joint venture; and bought 100% of Joyo.com, a British Virgin Islands company, for €105m in 2010.

Instead, Andrew Coxon, the chief diamond buyer and one of a number of De Beers executives who have moved over to the retail joint venture, has been scouring wholesale diamond markets, particularly in Russia and Canada, to find the kinds of cut stones that suit his purpose.

The French luxury group LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton says that its new retail joint venture in diamond jewelry with De Beers will be headed by Alain Lorenzo, currently chief executive of eLUXURY.com., an LVMH Web site, Mr. Lorenzo was previously chief executive of Parfums Givenchy, and spent 12 years in sales and marketing with Procter & Gamble in Europe.

The issue has become so fraught that De Beers this week threatened Survival International with a lawsuit for continuing to insist publicly that evictions of Bushmen were linked to diamond mining, a connection denied by the Botswana government, by European legislators, by other British and Botswanan advocacy groups, by De Beers and by De Beers LV, the retail joint venture.

Trent, a retail joint-venture between Tata Sons and Tesco, reckons there might be mileage in limited-range supermarkets of 450-750 square metres, as well as smaller convenience stores.Where will all this leave the traditional traders?

The chosen retail spaces, a natural extrusion of this Situationist movement of a boutique hotel, are — but of course, dahling — satellites of two of the most insider-y retail joints in town.

Last year Sabanci took over control of its retailing joint venture (with Carrefour of France), which has been losing money.

The retailing joint venture and the revamping are elements in the De Beers strategy to transform the diamond industry, which it dominates, into a branded-goods business.

The supplier-of-choice agreement will not prevent the wholesalers from selling to rivals of the De Beers-LVMH retailing joint venture.