New rules are being called for across Danish City Councils to deal with what are seen as increasingly problematic street vendors. Read the full story
Posted on 17 April 2010.
New rules are being called for across Danish City Councils to deal with what are seen as increasingly problematic street vendors. Read the full story
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Posted on 14 April 2010.
Retail strikes will take place across Finland on Friday, after a compromise was rejected by the Finnish Service United Union (PAM). Read the full story
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Posted on 19 March 2010.
Jon Asgeir Johannesson, the former boss of now-bankrupt Baugur Group is preparing to open a three-store chain of low cost supermarkets in London. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 February 2010.
The Reykjavik District Court has ordered Hagar to pay ISK 315 million in fines for abuse of market position. Read the full story
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Posted on 06 February 2010.
Iceland’s Arion Banki has decided to list retail giant Hagar on the Reykjavik stock exchange as a public listed company. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 January 2010.
A Finnish business that specialises in the sale of gardening equipment has been raided by local police under suspicions that the operation is deliberately promoting the purchase and use of home cultivation equipment for growing cannabis. Read the full story
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Posted on 28 December 2009.
Ordinary supermarkets will soon start to stock sex toys in Finland in what is believed to be a first for Nordic countries. Read the full story
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Posted on 23 November 2009.
Representatives of a large investment group wishing to buy Iceland’s Hagar retail business say they have been locked out, claiming to be disappointed on behalf of the man on the street. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 November 2009.
The recent spate of retail news in Iceland continues with Time Magazine’s look at Icelandic fashion designers and the proposed takeover of some of the country’s biggest retailers by the man on the street. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 July 2009.
Keflavik International Airport, the biggest international gateway in Iceland, is both relaxing and exciting, with a comfortable artistic ambiance and a host of great shops. Brands including Burberry, Calvin Klein, Gucci, Bvulgari, Boss, Diesel, Breitling, Tagheur and Raymond Weil cost less at Keflavik than in many other airports and big cities; and up to 50 percent cheaper than in Reykjavik. Read the full story
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Iceland government shake up confirmed, Dutch war games company happy
Iceland’s ‘favourite comedy show’ saved at the last minute
Details of alleged Norwegian bomb plot revealed
Boeing Dreamliner in Iceland for testing
Northern Lights experience with Icelandair
Eidur Smari Gudjohnsen moves to Stoke City
Danish-caught pirates released on lack of evidence
Cabinet reshuffle for Icelandic government
Cairn hits Greenland gas jackpot
Iceland concert event Iceland Airwaves to attract thousands of music lovers
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