KB Toys announces store closings
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Toy retailer KB Toys Inc. will close 141 to 238 underperforming stores by Jan. 31, 2005, possibly including its store in Citrus Heights.
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Ailing electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. yesterday said it would close 19 stores, five regional offices and a distribution center, launching a major cost-cutting campaign just one day after disclosing it has become the subject of a takeover bid.
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Dell on Wednesday announced the shutdown of retail kiosks in malls throughout the United States as it adjusts its evolving product distribution strategy.
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Toy retailer KB Toys Inc. announced Tuesday that it will close 141 to 238 underperforming stores by Jan. 31, 2005. The company&#39;s store at Crabtree Valley Mall on Glenwood Avenue is one of the locations KB Toys says it is considering closing.
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Kwik Save staff are to find out if they will lose their jobs as the chain prepares to close a third of its shops.
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LOS ANGELES -- KB Home, one of the nation's largest homebuilders, said Tuesday its fiscal fourth-quarter loss ballooned as home sales slowed, prompting the company to book charges to write down unsold inventory and for a tax allowance. Its shares dropped almost 2 percent in premarket trading.
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Toy retailers across the country have largely pushed sleds and toboggans off their shelves and out of their catalog pages, victims of warmer weather and the changing taste of children.
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Eastman Kodak Co. will close a plant in England, shut down product lines in France and make other shifts in the two countries as part of the company&#39;s historic push into digital imaging.
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Circuit City Stores Inc., the nation's No. 2 consumer electronics retailer, said Thursday it plans to close seven domestic Superstores, a Kentucky distribution center and 62 company-owned stores in Canada to cut costs and improve its financial performance.
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Retailer Sears Holdings Corp said on Friday that it would close two Sears stores in Hollywood, California, and New York City for business reasons.
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Two closed Kmart stores in the Tampa Bay area are among 50 nationwide acquired by Sears, Roebuck and Co. in a $576-million deal announced Wednesday.
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Circuit City Stores Inc.  said on Thursday that it would close a number of stores, cut some jobs and change its management structure as it faces increased pressure in the electronics retail market.
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Saks Inc. announced plans to shut seven Saks Fifth Avenue stores, including one in Garden City, LI, and three Off 5th discount stores.
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Toys R Us Inc. TOY.N, which is  considering getting out of the toy business, on Monday posted a  second-quarter operating loss on poor sales of video games and  markdowns on older merchandise.
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By Kathleen M. Howley BLOOMBERG NEWS  Los Angeles-based KB Home, the sixth-largest U.S. homebuilder, reduced its earnings forecast Wednesday, saying a plunge in new orders will cause profit to fall in fiscal 2006 as higher mortgage rates chill demand.
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Dell Inc., which has been pushing its computers into more retail stores, said Wednesday it will close its 140 shopping mall kiosks in the United States.
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In a move possibly intended to shift focus to its efforts in retail stores, computer manufacturer Dell Inc. said that it will shut down its retail kiosks in about 140 malls nationwide.