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IFJ Warns Authorities over Threat to Press Freedom after Raid on Icelandic Daily
05 Jan 2025 17:08 GMT
… the charges brought against the retailer Baugur in 2002. One of the … -year police investigation was politically motivated. On September 20 an Icelandic court … dismissed all 40 charges against Baugur Group due to …
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Foreign Investors Raising Interest in U.S. Firms
21 Feb 2024 20:41 GMT
… Federated Department Stores to his holdings and merged it with Allied … .
And then there was Baugur Group, the Icelandic investment firm which eventually owned an … partnership to establish an investment platform for retail-led mixed-used assets …
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Welsh supermarket Iceland’s legal challenge to namesake country to use name
14 Sep 2022 18:54 GMT
… attorney at the Icelandic Intellectual Property Office told Icelandic broadcaster RUV.
EUIPO … until next year.
Vigorous defence
Iceland Foods’ managing director Richard Walker … when it was owned by Icelandic retail group Baugur, up until the 2008 financial …
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Iceland back in court with Iceland over use of the name Iceland
12 Sep 2022 01:35 GMT
… describing their products as Icelandic.
Now Iceland and Iceland Foods will fight it … the time, Iceland Foods was owned by an Icelandic retail group Baugur until the 2008 … for Foreign Affairs joined Promote Iceland, Business Iceland and patent law firm …
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Iceland the supermarket and country in court battle over name
11 Sep 2022 01:28 GMT
… ended up in court. Iceland and Iceland Foods will battle it out … trademark authority for the group of 27 nations. Icelandic lawyers say that … the time, Iceland Foods was owned by an Icelandic retail group Baugur. But due to …
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‘I am a hypocrite’: Iceland boss Richard Walker on the retailer’s struggle to go green
05 Mar 2022 17:21 GMT
… to March 2021, when Iceland’s holding company made a £ … high-volume, mass-market retailer, full of contradictions. What … plastic, and the other retailers were a lot slower … under alternative management, the Icelandic investment group Baugur came to the rescue, …
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'Ken Morrison would be fuming in his grave over takeover bid', ex-Iceland boss says
06 Jul 2021 11:13 GMT
… was taken over by Icelandic firm Baugur.
Though Grimsey had … back the move.
The group of investors targeting the acquisition also … 2017 - has previously invested in grocery retail in both North America … potential that a major retail group could enter the fray …
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Founding family and CEO take full control of Britain's Iceland Foods
09 Jun 2020 09:13 GMT
… Walker, who founded the supermarket group in 1970, and CEO Tarsem … 63.1% of Iceland owned by South African investment company Brait for … a consortium led by Icelandic investor Baugur in 2005.
Baugur collapsed after the financial …
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Iceland Foods' 'long-term greedy' founders may seek bigger stake
10 Mar 2020 12:19 GMT
… Walker, who founded the supermarket group in 1970, his son and … .
Even with only a minority holding, the Walker family controls the … a consortium led by Icelandic investor Baugur in 2005.
Baugur collapsed after the financial …
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Ambani may've cracked his last remaining retail puzzle
18 Apr 2019 13:04 GMT
… say could fundamentally recast Indian retail.
Reliance Brands — the … marquee label operator of Reliance Retail — is Hamleys' … his position in the retail business. Equally importantly, … 2003 by then-owners Baugur Group of Iceland, which had bought …