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Shoppers who spend more than $50 at certain supermarkets this week will receive a free reusable shopping bag.
Insurer and reinsurer Axa XL has teamed with the grocery stores to help raise awareness of the damage being done to the oceans by plastics a...
DATE: Oct 10, 2019
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Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Business Staff
After clothing Bermuda’s children for almost four decades, Pirates Port Kids closes at the end of the month.
Owner Susan Gilbert said she’d tried hard, but the business just wasn’t there any more.
“The kid’s clothing business has died,” the 71-year-...
DATE: Oct 09, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
The volume of retail sales fell in June by 6 per cent in volume when compared to a year ago.
The fall is all the more striking as June 2018 saw the biggest drop in retail sales volume — at 9.1 per cent — of the past four years.
The figures are inflat...
DATE: Oct 09, 2019
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Local Business
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Garden and pet supply store Animal and Garden House is back in business as a web-only operation.
Owner Jennifer McCarron closed her bricks and mortar shop on Cemetery Road, Pembroke at the end of June citing rising costs, and a drop in sales that she...
DATE: Oct 08, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
Ever dozed off in the middle of an important office meeting, or found yourself drinking endless rounds of coffee just to stay awake until lunch time?
Sleep scientists estimate that 35 per cent of people accidentally nod off at work, each month.
And ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
When gift shop owner Marjorie Caines attended a presentation by Bermuda Championship golf tournament director Sean Sovacool in July, she instantly recognised an opportunity — and one that was not just for herself and her business.
Instead, Ms Caines,...
DATE: Oct 07, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
DropIt Delivery, the island’s grocery delivery business, has announced a $1 annual membership offer for the nearly 5,000 members of Age Concern during the month of October.
The cut-price membership is effective for a year. Beginning on November 1, th...
DATE: Oct 04, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
The Stationery Store, a fixture on the corner of Reid Street and Burnaby Hill since 1972, has moved around the corner.
The shop, owned by Bermuda Press (Holdings) Ltd, is now located on Burnaby Hill, between Reid and Front Streets, next to the Hog Pe...
DATE: Oct 03, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Business Staff
When Alexandra Mosher first started a jewellery business out of her kitchen, she could barely keep the lights on.
“The Belco guy would be coming to turn off my electricity,” she said. “I’d say just give me one day. Then I’d call someone who had been...
DATE: Oct 02, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Telecoms industry veteran Vicki Coelho has been appointed chief executive officer of the recently merged advertising agency AAC and online ticketing and events solution company Ptix.
In a statement, the company said that Ms Coelho “is an experienced ...
DATE: Oct 02, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall