(1) John Bason, finance director of Primark's parent company, Associated British Foods, says: "Showing off your bargains is a characteristic of Primark shopping.
(2) While UK sales in October and November were affected by the balmy autumn, Bason said it only affected winter coats and knitwear, which make up a third of Primark’s product range so overall sales continued to rise.
(3) The weather had undoubtedly held back performance, Bason said, but British shoppers now had more money to spare, thanks to falls in petrol and food prices, and were putting more Primark items in their baskets on each shop.
(4) "We are looking at [retail] hot spots," said John Bason, finance director at Primark owner Associated British Foods.
(5) Bason countered that Primark had enjoyed exceptional sales in the spring as the warm weather put shoppers in the mood to buy its kimono tops, jumpsuits and platform sandals.
(6) John Bason, finance director of Primark’s parent company, Associated British Foods, said the number of shoppers visiting the clothing chain had not fallen but knitwear, coats and thermals had not sold well.
(7) Bason said the retailer had already begun shipping clothing to its new warehouse in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in preparation for the opening.
(8) Bason said he had never expected the Boston opening to be overwhelmed by eager shoppers as Primark’s brand does not have the awareness it does in the UK or Europe, but he hopes that will change rapidly.
(9) Bason said the new stores were part of ongoing expansion in the UK that formed part of 1.3 million sq ft of new space planned around the world in the year ahead.
(10) In the UK, Primark’s biggest market, Bason said sales at established stores rose by between 1% and 2% in the 16 weeks to 20 June despite a cold start to the spring which has hit sales at other retailers including Marks & Spencer.
(11) Primark owner says prices will not rise to pay for 'national living wage' Read more Bason said there would be further expansion overseas: “There is a huge market in continental Europe that we are going after and we know when we go to new locations we are greeted with wide acclaim.
(12) Bason said the price was now at an "unsustainably low" level of 17 cents per pound.
(13) The BaSon test (Baden, Sonnenfield) for the control of heparin therapy has been studied in capillary and venous blood of normal and heparinized children and the same reliability is found.
(14) Bason said: “I think Primark is continuing to win in the UK.
(15) Bason said Primark was spending money on making its high street stores look more exciting and modern, keeping prices low and ensuring it had the right range of clothing.
(16) We are confident in the Primark proposition and long-term growth; we don’t kneejerk around short-term weather effects.” While profit margins slipped compared with the previous year, Bason said this was because of “exceptional trading” in 2013, when the company sold out of stock.
(17) They should discuss it with us and with their staff.” Bason said Primark was not trying to stop staff joining a union but said it was for staff to decide on their own without the influence of the company.
(18) Bason said shoppers had a “bit of a shock” for a couple of weeks after the EU referendum on 23 June but trade had bounced back with better weather from late July.
(19) In 2014, Bason said the company had sold out of Christmas jumpers, selling more than 1m, while kidswear, and even womenswear, linked to the hit Disney film Frozen had also sold well.
(20) The Irish connection for this Dublin-based retailer was also a useful emotional connection,” said Bason.
Baton
Definition:
(n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
(n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the first anniversary of Peach's death I took part in my first ever demonstration where we chanted the names of the six SPG officers who were said to have been hitting people with batons on the street where Peach died.
(2) Snipers fired from rooftops, and plainclothes Saleh supporters armed with automatic rifles, swords and batons attacked the protesters.
(3) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
(4) Dozens were injured, including 20 policemen, in a protest triggered by food costs that was eventually quelled by baton charges and teargas.
(5) The prosecution contended that while that manoeuvre was lawful, his repeated use of a baton against her legs showed the officer had lost his self-control.
(6) He explains that the violence began after the demo overran its official cut-off time: Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.
(7) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.
(8) Baton-wielding police detained dozens of people, with Malaysian media reports saying as many as 100 were arrested.
(9) Panic rippled through the crowd as riot police advanced repeatedly with batons drawn before being later backed up by dozens of mounted police.
(10) They say the footage shows Clough being pushed by police officers and struck on the head with a baton before he was pushed backwards to the ground and arrested.
(11) Taking a break from rehearsal, police baton in hand, the 34-year-old said: "It doesn't point to anybody, but it brings to the fore the pain the tragic event cost.
(12) During the protests on Monday, Tibetan sources say police beat isolated demonstrators with batons and rounded them up in trucks.
(13) After the brutal assault, which was taped and broadcast on national news and showed King on the ground as multiple officers beat him with batons and kicked him, the NAACP conducted a series of hearings across the country on community-police relations.
(14) Outside Sana'a University, riot police armed with water-cannons used batons and shields to disperse protesters.
(15) Stun guns, shock batons and cattle prods are electric shock devices which can be used as weapons against the human body.
(16) In the police's own footage of what followed, shown in court, mounted officers with batons drawn can be seen charging into miners, and officers on foot beat miners about the head with truncheons.
(17) Riot police beat back the crowds with batons and detained more than 400 people.
(18) They would then spit on batons and rape us with them.
(19) They’ve stolen things from us, burned us down, broken in and threatened, but to beat up people, including women, with batons?
(20) But he flailed in vain as the police officers grabbed him, one forcing his T-shirt roughly up over his head as three or four others laid in with their wooden batons, dragging and pushing him to a line of waiting Land Cruisers and more helmeted cops.