(1) For the last few weeks the company’s private equity owner, Alteri, had been attempting to sell Brantano and another footwear chain, Jones Bootmaker, which it bought along with its sister retailer for about £12m in February 2015.
(2) Jones Bootmaker is on the brink – but it's not all gloom on the high street Read more It is understood that Jaeger’s staff have been briefed about the possibility of administration.
(3) My father was a bootmaker, my mother was a seamstress and everyone worked hard.
(4) Any new owner of Jones Bootmaker should make a call to Amancio Ortega, the founder of Inditex and Europe’s richest man.
(5) The news that Jones Bootmaker is on the brink of falling into administration is a reminder of just how tough life is on the high street.
(6) Run by former Baugur executive Jon Scheving Thorsteinsson it owns Jones the Bootmaker, leather goods brand Aspinal of London as well as stakes in Hardy Amies and fashion brand Ghost.
(7) Brantano’s collapse is likely to raise questions about the role of Alteri, which just three months ago paid an estimated £12m to buy Brantano and Jones Bootmaker from Dutch company Macintosh.
Shoemaker
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.
(n.) The threadfish.
(n.) The runner, 12.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is intended to improve the anatomical model by the use of the published data of Eyclesheimer and Shoemaker (1911).
(2) Manager Mike Scioscia may have one-time slugger Josh Hamilton back in time for the postseason, should he heal from rib inflammation ( if they even need him ); same goes for starting pitcher Matt Shoemaker, who has carried the team down the stretch and is recovering from a mild left rib-cage strain , not to mention his rookie hazing role as a Saudi oil tycoon.
(3) There was a positive correlation between the prevalence of benzene poisoning and the concentration in shoemaking factories.
(4) Excess mortality was found for deck and engine room crew of ships, railway workers, electrical and electronic workers, shoemakers and repairers, and tobacco workers.
(5) And as rival shoemaker Reebok has seen its share price rise from $8 to $30 in the past year, Nike's stock has fallen by 15 per cent.
(6) Founded in the 1990s by Jimmy Choo, a Malaysian bespoke shoemaker, and the British designer Tamara Mellon, the firm went through the hands of several private equity firms before JAB bought the brand for more than £500m in 2011.
(7) Matt Young (@mjoven1975) @senecal_debbie @KyleShowalter I said that the rookie hazing of Matt Shoemaker was inappropriate.
(8) In Flimby, Okolowicz explains that, while it's undoubtedly a success story, his factory is the final remnant of a much larger shoemaking industry in the area: K shoes and Bata once had plants locally, employing several thousand staff, instead of fewer than 300 at New Balance.
(9) In comparison to standardised control groups our results must be interpreted as indicating an increased rate of DNA cross-linking in welders and disinfectors whereas the female shoemakers showed an increased rate of DNA strand breakage.
(10) Peripheral lymphocyte DNA damage as measured by the method of alkaline filter elution and the frequency of sister chromatid exchange (SCE) in lymphocytes was investigated for a group of 20 female workers of a shoemaking plant who were exposed to benzene and toluene, primarily below the German threshold limit value of 5 and 100 p.p.m.
(11) The MoMLV integration apparatus carried out integration of the mini-HIV substrates correctly; the terminal nucleotides of the viral substrate were removed, and a 4-base-pair duplication of the target DNA flanked the inserted viral DNA (C. Shoemaker, S. P. Goff, E. Gilboa, M. Paskind, S. W. Mitra, and D. Baltimore, Proc.
(12) Durbin spokesman Joe Shoemaker said the affidavit did not arrive before Durbin left on an official trip to Europe.
(13) Protein-ligand complexes were titrated with acrylamide, and the data also implicate conformational changes upon DNA binding but not upon AdoMet binding, consistent with previous limited proteolysis results (Reich, N. O., Maegley, K. A., Shoemaker, D.D., and Everett, E. (1991) Biochemistry 30, 2940-2946).
(14) Rogers and Shoemaker defined opinion leadership as "the degree to which an individual is able to influence other individuals' attitudes and overt behavior in a desired way with relative frequency."
(15) At the top end of the revised range of 160p, the shoemaker would be valued at roughly £620m.
(16) We are dealing with the rare case of a cardiac arrest of a 44 year old man, who has been using shoemakers glue.
(17) Especially satisfying among the subtotal resections are Billroth I as modified by Shoemaker, Billroth I -- Kirschner (superior and inferior tubular resection) and Völcker, while among the total resections we find Bigham, Longmire and Tomoda I very promising.
(18) Our previous work has demonstrated the formation of SMAs between bile salts and lysophospholipids [Shoemaker & Nichols (1990) Biochemistry 29, 5837-5842].
(19) Statistically significant increased risks for cancer of the gall bladder were observed for men employed in petroleum refining, papermills, chemical processing, shoemaking, and repairing, and for both men and women employed in textile work.
(20) Robin Shoemaker, analyst with KeyBanc Capital Markets, said: “If oil prices stay at this level, none of these companies would just be able to adjust with one round of workforce reductions.” Schlumberger’s customers – oil producers – have cut capital budgets for 2015 and reduced the number of rigs.