SuperShop was established in April 2000 and is backed by premium partners: hu: SuperShop Spar, OBI, OMV, Photo hall, Burger King.

is a football team, based in Welshpool, playing in the Spar Mid Wales League.

A section of the novel is entitled " Iceland Spar ".

Great Kingshill has a small local shop which is a member of the " Spar " franchise.

* In Slovenia the biggest is Mercator, the 2nd biggest is Spar and the third is Tuš.

* There is a small shopping centre consisting of a Spar, PEP, Ellerines, Ithala Bank and a petrol garage along with some Chinese-owned shops.

The name ' Broomhill ' is often taken to refer to the parade of shops on Fulwood Road which includes a collection of takeaways, 4 pubs, messrs. Eadon, Lockwood & Riddle ( estate agents ) a Spar supermarket and many other local shops and banks.

Quinte West is also home to Nestle Canada Inc., Electro Cables Inc., Globamed Inc., Canadian Blast Freezers, Trenton Cold Storage Group, Deca Cables Inc., Domtech Inc., Drossbach North America, Fracan Ltd., L3 Communications Spar Aerospace Ltd., L3 Communications-CMRO, Norampac Inc., Quality Custom Blending, Research Casting International, Saputo Foods, and Quinn & Quinn Inc., just to name a few.

It is the master franchise operator for the SPAR, Spar Express and EuroSpar brands in Ireland, with approximately 450 Spar stores.

It is a more cost effective way for retailers who are not suited to a full brand offering, like Spar, to get the benefits of franchise membership.

The kit sponsor for the club is Adidas, and the principal sponsor for the football and handball team is the regional bank Spar Nord.

The Post Office and Village Store is run by Ian and Jean Kinnear and the Spar Shop which is located next to the Horse and Jockey is run by Ann and Paul Langley.

" De Spar " is Dutch for " The Spruce ", hence Spar's logo.

The Dutch Spar is a member of Superunie, a Dutch purchasing organization for supermarkets.

There is a Drive-Thru Spar on the Cliftonville Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

In the UK Blue John, or " Derbyshire Spar ", is found only in Blue John Cavern and the nearby Treak Cliff Cavern.

There is a parade of shops consisting of two convenience stores, Spar and One Stop, a post office, florist, several bakeries, a butchers, male and female hair salons, a dental practice, sandwich shop, chemist and a betting shop.

Although Shell and the offshore industry consider that Brent Spar did not set a precedent for disposal of facilities in the future, signatory nations of the OSPAR conventions have since agreed that oil facilities should be disposed of onshore, so it is difficult to see how this does not set a precedent.

* 2000: Een geschenk uit de hemel-De slag om de Brent Spar, Schuchen Tan en Kees de Groot

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* 18 October 1995-DNV present results of their audit, endorsing the original Spar inventory.

* June 20 – Oil multinational Royal Dutch Shell caves in to international pressure and abandons plans to dump the Brent Spar oil rig at sea.

Spar was founded in 1932 in the Dutch city of Zoetermeer.

* " So near, so Spar ", United Kingdom slogan

* " Spar: There for you ", current United Kingdom slogan

* " Under the tree, at Spar " ( former Irish slogan, jingle still retained today )

* " Feel the Taste of Spar ", Austrian slogan

* " Spar — der hvor du kan " (" Spar — Where you can ") a play on SPAR meaning " save ( money )" in Danish, current Danish slogan

Spar varnish ( also called marine varnish ) was originally intended for use on ship or boat spars, to protect the timber from the effects of sea and weather.

Despite this, the widespread perception of " marine products " as " tough " led to domestic outdoor varnishes being branded as " Spar varnish " and sold on the virtue of their weather-and UV-resistance.

Many of the scenes take place around the main street in Carrigstown, with notable landmarks on the street including McCoy's pub, Phelan's corner shop ( now Spar, formerly Doyle's ), The Hungry Pig ( formerly The Bistro ), the Community Centre ( formerly The Haven ) and Vino's ( formerly Rainbows Sandwich Bar ).

There are three licensed premises on the campus, also selling a wide selection of food ; the " old bar ", the " nu bar " ( aka beta ), The Helix and Spar ( off-license ).

Working with Spar Music in Florence, Alabama, Alexander recorded his first single, " Sally Sue Brown ", under the name of June Alexander ( short for Junior ), which was released in 1960 on Jud Phillips ' Judd Records.

The company initially focused mostly on off-shore oil exploration and production, being one of the first companies to use drillships in the Gulf of Mexico, and later one of the first companies to use a Spar type platform in the area.

Scartho's retail availability includes a Spar mini-supermarket on Waltham Road, surrounded by a number of other businesses including take-aways and a pharmacy.

In June 2010 it was disclosed that the Spar convenience store on Rodway Road was developing the rear of the store ( currently used for goods storage ) to accommodate a Post Office facility.

A Spar store may be owned independently, by a franchisee, or be part of a chain, depending on the model applied in any given country.

Spar opened in the Republic of Vanuatu on 1 December 2009 ending Au Bon Marché's grocery monopoly.

* There was an advert on the roof of the Spar Family Stand for Redrow Homes, former shirt sponsor of the club ( 2003 – 2006 ).

In the face of public and political opposition in northern Europe ( including a widespread boycott of Shell service stations, some physical attacks and an arson attack on a service station in Germany ), Shell abandoned its plans to dispose of Brent Spar at sea – whilst continuing to stand by its claim that this was the safest option, both from an environmental and an industrial health and safety perspective.

Greenpeace became aware of the plan to sink the Brent Spar at sea on 16 February 1995.

Greenpeace objected to the plan to dispose of the Brent Spar at sea on a number of issues:

Four Greenpeace activists first occupied Brent Spar on 30 April 1995.

Although Greenpeace quoted Shell's own estimate of the amount of heavy metals and other chemicals on board, they claimed there were more than 5, 500 tonnes of oil on the Spar – far more than Shell's estimate of 50 tonnes.

It disputed Shell's estimates of the contaminants on the Brent Spar, saying that these were much more than initially estimated.

Greenpeace moved to distance itself from its " 5500 tonnes " claim, after the Brent Spar argument was won, and because of this has been accused of indulging in historical revisionism, after issuing statements such as " In the absence of a full inventory, Greenpeace, during our occupation, attempted to find out what was on the Brent Spar.