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  2. Home Retail Group - Wikipedia

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    Home Retail Group plc was a British retail company established on 10 October 2006, following the spin-off of Argos Retail Group (ARG) from GUS plc. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The group primarily comprised two retailers: Argos and Homebase, as well as in-house brands such as Chad Valley and Habitat. In April 2007, the ...

  3. Argos (retailer) - Wikipedia

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    Argos was launched with thousands of staff, taking £1 million during a week in November. [10] Argos was purchased by BAT Industries in 1979 for £32 million. In 1980, Argos opened its Elizabeth Duke jewellery counter (named after a director's wife) and by 1982, was the United Kingdom's fourth-biggest jewellery retailer.

  4. Package tracking - Wikipedia

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    Tracking packages with stationary bar code reader in a warehouse sorting operation. Package tracking or package logging is the process of localizing shipping containers, mail and parcel post at different points of time during sorting, warehousing, and package delivery to verify their provenance and to predict and aid delivery.

  5. Habitat (retailer) - Wikipedia

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    Habitat (a trading name of Argos Limited) is a brand of household furnishings in the United Kingdom and the main homewares brand within the Sainsbury's group.. Founded in 1964 by Sir Terence Conran, it merged with a number of other retailers in the 1980s to create Storehouse plc, before the latter sold Habitat to the Ikano Group, owned by the Kamprad family, in 1992.

  6. Security vetting in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Completion of a security clearance questionnaire by the candidate; Checks against UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent convictions; Checks against Security Service (MI5) records; It may also include an interview. A CTC/Level 1B clearance must be formally reviewed after ten years (five years for non-List X Contractors). [1]: Annex B

  7. Security clearance - Wikipedia

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    The term "security clearance" is also sometimes used in private organizations that have a formal process to vet employees for access to sensitive information. A clearance by itself is normally not sufficient to gain access; the organization must also determine that the cleared individual needs to know specific information. No individual is ...

  8. Argos (satellite system) - Wikipedia

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    Argos is a global satellite-based system that collects, processes, and disseminates (spreads, distributes) environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms around the world. [1] The worldwide tracking and environmental monitoring system is the results from Franco-American cooperation.

  9. Disclosure and Barring Service - Wikipedia

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    The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is a non-departmental public body of the Home Office of the United Kingdom.The DBS enables organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors to make safer recruitment decisions by identifying candidates who may be unsuitable for certain work, especially involving children or vulnerable adults, and provides wider access to criminal record ...