United Kingdom Specific companies Stats
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- Apple Store first opening: First opening of Apple Stores.
- Apple Stores: Countries compared by number of Apple stores located at its territory. The Apple campus, located in Cupertino (California) hosts not only the company headquartes, but the original Employee Store (now named Apple Company Store), which is the only place in the world where legitimate merchandise with the Apple logo (such as t-shirts, hats and the like) can be purchased. Another special case is China, that currently hosts 10 official Apple stores, but also numerous fake ones. These imitations try to mimic the look and feel of the orginal stores, with varying degrees of success. Other countries are known to host unauthorized stores too.
- Carrefour > First store: Year in which Carrefour first entered each country.
- Coffee Republic outlets: Shows the current number of Coffee Republic Outlets. Coffee Republic is a coffee bar and deli franchise chain founded in 1995 in the UK. Their outlers are fashioned in a New York coffee bar style, similar to that of the Starbucks chain. In 2009, after years of financial difficulties, the company was acquired by an arab investment company.
- IKEA > Debut: The year in which the first IKEA opened in each country. The first IKEA opened in Sweden in 1958.
- IKEA > No. of stores: The number of IKEA outlets in each country.
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- United we stand? The United Kingdom and United States are both in the top ten for Gross Domestic Product - and for child poverty.
