(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.
Mason
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.
(n.) A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.
(v. t.) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
(2) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(3) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
(4) @HunterFelt October 28, 2013 Ali Mason (@alimason) Reassuring to see the #redsox aren't the only ones who can find stupid ways to lose.
(5) Nucleotide and amino acid sequence analysis as well as immunologic reactivity indicated that the isolated virus was highly related to Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV).
(6) To celebrate, he hosted a social weekend in a south coast hotel where selected non-Masons like myself were temporarily tolerated.
(7) In a letter to potential investors, Groupon's co-founder and chief executive, Andrew Mason, warned future growth could come at the expense of profit.
(8) Ava had moved to London to star opposite James Mason as the Empress of Austria in the film Mayerling .
(9) the present report deals with a mason without previous dermatitis, presenting bullae, ulcers and necrosis in lower limbs, short time after incidental contact at work, with premixed concrete.
(10) Envelope antigens of the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV) and the morphologically similar HeLa virus, which is continuously produced in some HeLa cell lines, were compared by indirect immunoferritin techniques.
(11) Paul Mason is economics editor at Channel 4 News and the author of Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere .
(12) Paul Mason, among others, has called for Labour to win voters back from the Green Party .
(13) In a letter to Cescau, who was formerly chief executive of Unilever, CtW urges him to personally step forward at the annual meeting to detail the steps the board is taking to assess the viability of its strategy for Fresh & Easy and to restore the link between pay and performance for Mason.
(14) | Paul Mason Read more Donald Trump, for his part, couldn’t quite grasp the scale of Obama’s plan: “Our president wants to take in 250,000 from Syria.
(15) Dr Noble and Professor Mason, explore the incidence of incest and society's attitudes to it from legal, anthropological, medical and social viewpoints.
(16) Edward Mason, Church Commissioner and head of responsible investment, says: “That’s certainly a role that we try to play; it’s an area we are very active in.
(17) The 25,000 dalton protein of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV) was isolated by gel filtration chromatography.
(18) So I don’t see ethanol being that huge of a wedge issue for Cruz.” He was echoed by Jeff Kaufmann, the chair of the Republican Party of Iowa, who said: “I am not convinced that issue, in and of itself, will either cause a candidate to win or lose.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee looks at products made at Golden Grain Energy, an ethanol plant in Mason City, Iowa.
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(20) Radioactive DNA ([(3)H]cDNA) complementary to the RNA of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus was used in molecular hybridization experiments to demonstrate sequence homology between its viral RNA and RNA of human malignant breast tumors.