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Fashion Network
07-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Planned Scotch Corner Designer Village announces raft of new stores
Plans for one of Northern England's key shopping destinations, Scotch Corner Designer Village (SCDV), have moved forward with the announcement of 19 new retailers including Guess, Monsoon, Molton Brown, Hobbs, and Phase Eight. Phase 1 is 50% built with construction on the remaining 50% to recommence on-site in September. The opening will be spring 2027 for what will be the largest retail destination opening in the UK during that year. It's located at one of the best-known locations in the country, the Scotch Corner junction of the A1(M) and A66 junction with traffic of 44 million people every year. Annual footfall of four million is being projected once it's open with 1,300 jobs being created. There will be 73 stores in Phase 1 and the village is now 82% let. After the new retailers just announced, more will be revealed later this summer. SCDV said that as well as the aforementioned brands, its new signings include Castore, Jack & Jones, Brook Taverner, White Stuff, Haribo, Lindt, Superdry, Radley London, and a huge M&S. They join brands that have already signed including Boss, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Levis, Skechers, Clarks, Moss and Dune London among others. Newly signed dining options include Pizza Express, Pret A Manger, 2000 Coffee, Knoops and Slim Chickens, alongside Wagamama and Five Guys that had already signed. SCDV is an ambitious project that has been years in the planning and is aiming to offer more than just fashion shopping. It will include the UK's largest Blue Diamond home, lifestyle, and garden centre, for instance, which will open after this first retail phase. It's set in the middle of the UK's biggest tourism region outside London (think Richmond, Darlington, the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors National Parks).
Fashion Network
07-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Planned Scotch Corner Designer Village announces raft of new stores
Plans for one of Northern England's key shopping destinations, Scotch Corner Designer Village (SCDV), have moved forward with the announcement of 19 new retailers including Guess, Monsoon, Molton Brown, Hobbs, and Phase Eight. Phase 1 is 50% built with construction on the remaining 50% to recommence on-site in September. The opening will be spring 2027 for what will be the largest retail destination opening in the UK during that year. It's located at one of the best-known locations in the country, the Scotch Corner junction of the A1(M) and A66 junction with traffic of 44 million people every year. Annual footfall of four million is being projected once it's open with 1,300 jobs being created. There will be 73 stores in Phase 1 and the village is now 82% let. After the new retailers just announced, more will be revealed later this summer. SCDV said that as well as the aforementioned brands, its new signings include Castore, Jack & Jones, Brook Taverner, White Stuff, Haribo, Lindt, Superdry, Radley London, and a huge M&S. They join brands that have already signed including Boss, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Levis, Skechers, Clarks, Moss and Dune London among others. Newly signed dining options include Pizza Express, Pret A Manger, 2000 Coffee, Knoops and Slim Chickens, alongside Wagamama and Five Guys that had already signed. SCDV is an ambitious project that has been years in the planning and is aiming to offer more than just fashion shopping. It will include the UK's largest Blue Diamond home, lifestyle, and garden centre, for instance, which will open after this first retail phase. It's set in the middle of the UK's biggest tourism region outside London (think Richmond, Darlington, the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors National Parks).
Fashion Network
07-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Planned Scotch Corner Designer Village announces raft of new stores
Plans for one of Northern England's key shopping destinations, Scotch Corner Designer Village (SCDV), have moved forward with the announcement of 19 new retailers including Guess, Monsoon, Molton Brown, Hobbs, and Phase Eight. Phase 1 is 50% built with construction on the remaining 50% to recommence on-site in September. The opening will be spring 2027 for what will be the largest retail destination opening in the UK during that year. It's located at one of the best-known locations in the country, the Scotch Corner junction of the A1(M) and A66 junction with traffic of 44 million people every year. Annual footfall of four million is being projected once it's open with 1,300 jobs being created. There will be 73 stores in Phase 1 and the village is now 82% let. After the new retailers just announced, more will be revealed later this summer. SCDV said that as well as the aforementioned brands, its new signings include Castore, Jack & Jones, Brook Taverner, White Stuff, Haribo, Lindt, Superdry, Radley London, and a huge M&S. They join brands that have already signed including Boss, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Levis, Skechers, Clarks, Moss and Dune London among others. Newly signed dining options include Pizza Express, Pret A Manger, 2000 Coffee, Knoops and Slim Chickens, alongside Wagamama and Five Guys that had already signed. SCDV is an ambitious project that has been years in the planning and is aiming to offer more than just fashion shopping. It will include the UK's largest Blue Diamond home, lifestyle, and garden centre, for instance, which will open after this first retail phase. It's set in the middle of the UK's biggest tourism region outside London (think Richmond, Darlington, the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors National Parks).
Courier-Mail
02-07-2025
- Sport
- Courier-Mail
2024-25 Champion Australian Racehorse awards nominees
Don't miss out on the headlines from Horse Racing. Followed categories will be added to My News. The Horse of the Year award is a lock but try selecting the champion two-year-old or the best three-year-old filly. The three-year-old male award is up for grabs, the title of best sprinter isn't cut and dried, and neither is the stayer category for that matter. Unlike most years when these awards are reasonably predictable, most of the 2025 Champion Australian Racehorse award categories are wide open with the obvious exception of Horse of the Year which the Chris Waller-trained Via Sistina will win by about as far as her spectacular eight lengths Cox Plate romp last spring. The two-year-old award is one of the tightest as there was a different winner of each of the five Group 1 juvenile races this season including Marhoona and Devil Night who both scored their only stakes win in the Golden Slipper and Blue Diamond respectively. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Nepotism won the Group 1 Champagne Stakes and Group 3 Baillieu Handicap while Vinrock was unbeaten in three starts and became first horse since Full On Aces (1981) to win the Group 2 VRC Sires Produce Stakes and Group 1 ATC Sires Produce Stakes double. Cool Archie made a late season surge with five consecutive wins including the Listed Dalrello Stakes, Group 2 Champagne Classic, Group 2 BRC Sires Produce Stakes and Group 1 JJ Atkins. Even Tempted — who won twice at Group 2 level and was luckless in the Blue Diamond (seventh) and Golden Slipper (third) – O' Ole (Magic Millions) and Within The Law will have some support. The three-year-old filly division is also very contentious. Treasurethe Moment won eight races in succession including the VRC Oaks-ATC Australian Oaks double and Vinery Stud Stakes at Group 1 level but how does that compare to Lady Shenandoah's unbeaten season of five wins featuring Group 1 successes in the Flight Stakes and Surround Stakes and her defeat of older mares in the Coolmore Classic? The contenders for the major gongs in the 2025 Champion Austraian Racehorse awards. Picture: Winx wins the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Aeliana's outstanding ATC Australian Derby win by more than five lengths puts her into the conversation, Autumn Glow is unbeaten after four starts with three at stakes level, and Lady Of Camelot might have been winless this season but she was placed four times at Group 1 level and ran fourth in The Everest. Broadsiding (Golden Rose, Rosehill Guineas) was the only multiple Group 1 winner in the three-year-old male division but unbeaten Private Harry (The Galaxy), Linebacker (Randwick Guineas, defeating Broadsiding), Switzerland (Coolmore Stud Stakes), Private Life (Caulfield Guineas) and Maison Louis (Queensland Derby) will collate votes. It's anyone's guess for Champion Sprinter. Did Bella Nipotina do enough winning The Everest (and Russell Balding Stakes) to edge out dual Group 1 winners Joliestar (Newmarket Handicap, Kingsford Smith Cup) and Jimmysstar (Oakleigh Plate, All Aged Stakes), or Briasa (TJ Smith Stakes), Overpass (Winterbottom Stakes) and Schwarz (William Reid Stakes)? • Richard Callander: Forget wagering – this is racing's biggest battle Champion Stayer often goes to the Melbourne Cup winner but this was Knight's Choice's only win of the season which brings the likes of Duke De Sessa (Caulfield Cup), Dubai Honour (Tancred Stakes), Arapaho (Sydney Cup, Sandown Classic), Campaldino (Brisbane Cup), Alalcance (Manion Cup, Chairman's Quality), Land Legend (The Metropolitan) and Zardozi into the mix. But champion mare Via Sistina was the standout of 2024-25, winning seven of her nine starts, all at Group 1 level to equal the record for most majors in a season set by all-time great Winx in 2018-19. • Via Sistina is back … and she'll again blaze her record-breaking trail Via Sistina also won the Winx Stakes, Turnbull Stakes, Champions Stakes, Verry Elleegant Stakes, Ranvet Stakes and Queen Elizabeth Stakes over distances ranging from 1400m to 2000m so she will also claim the Middle Distance award, too. With Via Sistina certain to win Horse of the Year, it will be the eighth time in 10 years a Waller-trained galloper has won the coveted title. Waller also prepared the only four-time Horse of the Year winner, Winx (2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19), as well as Nature Strip (2019-20, 2021-22), and Verry Elleegant (2020-2021). Selected racing officials and media start voting on the awards this week with the winners announced at a special Hall of Fame-Horse of the Year function in Brisbane on August 31. Originally published as 2024-25 Champion Australian Racehorse awards: Via Sistina's a special but other categories wide open
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Roughly 600 employees being laid off in Blue Diamond Growers Sacramento flagship manufacturing plant closure
Blue Diamond Growers will permanently close its flagship Sacramento processing plant, which will result in the loss of approximately 600 jobs in the region. The 115-year-old company blamed maintenance costs and persistent inefficiencies for the shutdown. The company will consolidate manufacturing work into its existing facilities in Turlock and Salida, which are located in California's Central Valley. Thanks to Jeff Bezos, you can now become a landlord for as little as $100 — and no, you don't have to deal with tenants or fix freezers. Here's how I'm 49 years old and have nothing saved for retirement — what should I do? Don't panic. Here are 6 of the easiest ways you can catch up (and fast) Nervous about the stock market in 2025? Find out how you can access this $1B private real estate fund (with as little as $10) 'Our Sacramento team's work ethic and incredible drive have enabled us to build Blue Diamond into what it is today,' CEO and president Kai Bockmann told ABC News. 'However, the challenges of running a plant from these historical buildings has become too costly and inefficient. Streamlining our manufacturing plants is the right business move.' Founded in 1910, Blue Diamond has long been a fixture in California's agricultural sector. In the meantime, the cooperative is offering severance packages, relocation support and incentives to 600 employees to help with the transition. Despite the company's assurances, the closure has sparked concerns about Sacramento's ability to support major businesses. 'Proof is in the pudding,' Sanjay Varshney, a finance professor at Sacramento State University., told ABC News. 'Blue Diamond walking away is just another sign that there's something wrong with how we are doing business here.' Varshney cited Sacramento's high cost of living, burdensome regulatory environment and business-unfriendly conditions as key deterrents. He dismissed the idea that international trade or tariffs were the main reasons for the closure. Read more: Want an extra $1,300,000 when you retire? Dave Ramsey says — and that 'anyone' can do it A layoff can make a big impact in your financial situation, not to mention your emotional well-being. The good news is you can help navigate the fallout with a clear game plan. Know your benefits and severance: Insist on everything in writing and review every aspect of your exit package including your severance pay, company-sponsored health coverage and any outplacement services. If your employer-provided health insurance ends, consider COBRA coverage or explore plans through Covered California or Losing a job qualifies you for a special enrollment period. Apply for unemployment insurance immediately: File a claim through your state's unemployment office. Unemployment benefits become available only after your claim is processed, so don't delay. In California, most workers qualify for 50% of their regular wages, up to $450 per week for as long as 26 weeks, though exact amounts depend on prior earnings and state rules. Reassess your finances: Review your monthly expenses and cut nonessentials. Use emergency savings wisely and contact lenders or utility companies to discuss bill assistance programs or payment deferrals if needed. Update your resume and tap your network: Network with former colleagues, industry contacts and career counsellors. Inform your LinkedIn network, for example, that you're open to work and consider attending local job fairs or virtual networking events. Consider retraining or upskilling: Free or low-cost training programs are available through local workforce development centers and platforms like Coursera or LinkedIn Learning. Focus on in-demand fields like health care, logistics and technology. Blue Diamond's shutdown echoes a nationwide surge in layoffs. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 1.8 million workers have lost their jobs in 2025. In Sacramento, the loss of a century-old employer underscores that even the most established businesses can falter amid shifting economic currents — and highlights the urgency of diversifying the region's economic base. Rich, young Americans are ditching the stormy stock market — here are the alternative assets they're banking on instead Robert Kiyosaki warns of a 'Greater Depression' coming to the US — with millions of Americans going poor. But he says these 2 'easy-money' assets will bring in 'great wealth'. How to get in now This tiny hot Costco item has skyrocketed 74% in price in under 2 years — but now the retail giant is restricting purchases. Here's how to buy the coveted asset in bulk Here are 5 'must have' items that Americans (almost) always overpay for — and very quickly regret. How many are hurting you? Like what you read? 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