Advertising; business management; business administration; office functions; advertising material (updating of-); advertising matter (dissemination of-); business consultancy (professional-); business information; business management consultancy; compilation of information into computer databases; procurement services for others (purchasing goods and services for other businesses); public relations; publicity; research (business-); sales promotion (for others); import-export agencies; organisation, operation and supervision of customer loyalty schemes; administration of the business affairs of franchises and franchisees; management advisory services related to franchising; provision of assistance (business) in the operation of franchises; the bringing together, for the benefit of others, of a variety of goods, enabling customers to conveniently view and purchase those goods in a retail clothes store, in a wholesale outlet or from a general merchandise catalogue by mail order or by means of telecommunications; management of a retail enterprise for others; administration of the business affairs of retail stores