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Not even the airport is safe from the recession: three of the gift shops in the departure areas are set to close down today and their four staff will all be laid off. The owner Airport Shops Ltd blamed a major fall off in business due in large part t...

Several new businesses have opened in Dockyard for the 2012 cruise season, which sees more than 6,000 passengers and crew pouring off visiting luxury liners almost every day of the week. Four to five mega cruise ships are scheduled to call in Dockyar...

If you look up the word ‘eminence’, it is defined as prominent or lofty, so it should come as no surprise that the new Eminence Showroom, an interior design store that’s just opened in Bermuda, is modern, loft-like and truly a standout on the Island....

Local supplies of Carlsberg Elephant beer are dwindling due to shipping delays out of Denmark. Distributor Burrows Lightbourn Limited has been out of the popular beverage for just over a week. Said Vice President of Sales and Marketing Derek Emery: ...

Office products and services company AF Smith is now an authorised reseller of Apple products where customers can order online through their newly launched website — www.afsmith.bm. The company that last week confirmed six lay-offs said the new websi...

It would be nice to think that the increase in the February Retail Sales Index in value terms over the same month in 2011 is a harbinger of the long awaited economic recovery. Sales rose by 0.2 percent in February, the first year over year increase ...

St George’s speciality hat and clothing shop Lidz is closing down, citing struggling sales. Owner Giovanna Harris said sales started off “great” but dropped off by the end of this past summer. “It’s really slow in St George’s and we have just been af...

The owners of White & Sons says their two supermarkets are not closing and they and their staff of 85 are working hard to turn things around after a difficult period. Gary White told The Royal Gazette that with “much hard work and difficult decisions...

Office products and services company AF Smith Trading has cut six jobs citing the “depressed” Bermuda economy. Confirming the layoffs, AF Smith CEO Tim Smith said yesterday that five of the six staff let go were Bermudian. AF Smith is a leading provi...

Eight small business owners have graduated from an intense retail boot camp designed to give them the tools they need to make their business a success. The Retail Development Programme is the brainchild of the Bermuda Economic Development Corporatio...