Sears Spinning Off Orchard Supply Hardware Stores

Sears says it is spinning off its Orchard Supply Hardware Stores, which operates 89 stores in California, as its own publicly traded company. The Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based retailer has valued the chain at $82 million, reports Chain Store Age: “Orchard generated a profit of $8.7 million and $661 million in revenue in fiscal 2010, but its revenue has dropped for several consecutive years and its profit picture has been erratic,” it says. Sears hasn’t yet set a date or target price.

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Sears Spinning Off Orchard Supply Hardware Stores

The Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based retailer has valued the chain at $82 million, reports Chain Store Age: “Orchard generated a profit of $8.7 million and $661 million in revenue in fiscal 2010, but its revenue has dropped for several consecutive years and



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Review: Larry Crowne
Review: Larry Crowne

This tale, which Hanks directed and co-wrote, of a good hearted dork who gets fired from his menial shopfloor job in a chain store and goes off to college, where Roberts is a disillusioned, alcoholic professor consistently shows them in the worst



There's still plenty in store for the reader, senator
There's still plenty in store for the reader, senator

In fact, some say they have just had one of their better years, helped, ironically, by the demise of their chain-store competitors. The boss of the Dymocks chain of franchises, Don Grover, told the ABC this week other things were at work too, though.



Get your Groove (Store) thing on
Get your Groove (Store) thing on

Particularly in Hyde Park, it's been a major nail in the coffin for the chain store Coconuts and the much-beloved indie shop Dr. Wax within the last few years. Bouteville doesn't discount those obstacles, but figures the outlays and risks of running a




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Consumption: Objects, subjects and mediations in consumption

Consumption: Objects, subjects and mediations in consumption

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Out of the garden, toys, TV, and children's culture in the age of marketing

Out of the garden, toys, TV, and children's culture in the age of marketing

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Chain store age, May 1953, The chain store in the planned shopping center

Chain store age, May 1953, The chain store in the planned shopping center


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Chain store age, executives edition combined with Shopping center age


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SPECS/2010 - A Chain Store Age Event
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