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Grand & Toy is a Canadian B2B end-to-end supplier of office products and services, founded in 1882 by James Grand as a home-based stationery printing business. It is owned by The ODP Corporation, whose other brands include Office Depot and OfficeMax.
Rona Home & Garden stores are large, ranging from 85,000 to 150,000 square feet (7,900 to 13,900 m 2), with a warehouse-style similar to the Home Depot and Lowe's. Faced with chronic under-performance in some markets outside of Quebec, Rona closed six big box stores in 2012, five in Ontario and one in British Columbia.
In 1968, Thomasville Furniture became part of Armstrong World Industries, which sold the company to Interco (later Furniture Brands International) in November 1995. Starting with the Spring 2011 High Point Furniture Market, Thomasville Furniture Industries moved its showroom space from Thomasville to the International Home Furnishings Center.
Officeworks is a category killer within the office supplies product category. Each of its stores carries more than 30,000 products, to which it adds a further 1,000 to 2,000 products annually. Officeworks aims to cater for the entire needs of the small office, home office and families with student dependants.
The East Coast Integrated Depot (ECID) is a large integrated bus and train depot located in Changi that will serve three Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) lines in Singapore, the East West Line (EWL), the Downtown Line (DTL) and the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL). It is currently under construction, with expected completion in 2026.
B&Q developed two new trading formats: HomeCentres, retailing furniture, bathrooms, soft furniture, flooring and lighting; and AutoCentres, being similar to a Halfords, the first launch taking place at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, at the end of the 1980s. The concept being to have a HomeCentre, AutoCentre and DIY Superstore with one communal car park.
Former Home Depot CEO issues warning on the 'tremendous shift' in the US job market — cites wage increases, still-hot inflation for the big change.
In 1978, both he and future Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank were fired during a corporate power struggle at Handy Dan. In 1978, they co-founded the home-improvement retailer The Home Depot, with the help of merchandising expert Pat Farrah and New York investment banker Ken Langone who assembled a group of investors. The first two stores ...