Bloomberg Sears Canada Inc. received court approval to begin liquidating its stores as the insolvent retailer moves to wind up 65 years of business after failing to adapt to changing consumer tastes. The Toronto-based chain’s plan to begin selling off its inventory on October 19 was approved by Justice Glenn Hainey in Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Gordon Brothers Canada …

Bloomberg The man who helped put Skinny Pop in lunch boxes all over America is embracing Amazon.com Inc., the scourge of the grocery business. The biggest food companies, notoriously slow to respond to consumer whims and losing market share to nimbler upstarts, desperately crave innovation to keep ahead of Amazon’s threat. And Jason Cohen, the Skinny Pop guy, has been …

Dubai / Emirates Business Azizi Developments, a fast growing real estate developer headquartered in Dubai for over a decade, announced the plan to launch a new mega community project in the heart of Dubai at an estimated cost of AED25 billion, further signifying the developer’s continued rapid growth in the region. The new project, whose name is yet to be …