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British Woolworth’s in Jeopardy

2008-11-23
On: November 23, 2008
In: Deathwatch, Department Stores, Retailing
With: 2 Comments

LONDON – Decades of missteps and a brutal retail recession have hurt the British retailer Woolworth’s, which was one of the few surviving legacies of the giant F.W. Woolworth Co., a company that closed in the U.S. in the late 1990s. In mid-November, the stock price was less than £2.MORE HERE

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