Coles may refer to:
Businesses
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Coles Supermarkets
Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd, trading as Coles, is an Australian supermarket, retail and consumer services chain, headquartered in Melbourne as part of the Coles Group.
Founded in 1914 in Collingwood by George Coles, Coles operates ...
, a supermarket chain in Australia
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Coles Group
Coles Group Limited is an Australian public company operating several retail chains. Its chief operations are primarily concerned with the sale of food and groceries through its flagship supermarket chain Coles Supermarkets, and the sale of l ...
, parent company of Coles Supermarkets, Coles Online, Coles Express, Coles Liquor and flybuys
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Coles (bookstore)
Coles was a Canadian bookstore chain owned by Indigo Books and Music. Coles currently serves as Indigo's brand for small-scale bookstores in locations such as shopping malls. Some locations are operated as SmithBooks, and the company has recently ...
, a bookstore chain in Canada, a division of Indigo Books and Music
Places
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Coles, Illinois
Coles is an unincorporated community in Coles County, Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. ...
, Coles County, Illinois, United States
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Coles, Mississippi
Coles is an unincorporated community located in Amite County, Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of ...
, Amite County, Mississippi, United States
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Coles, Ourense
Coles is a municipality in the Spanish province of Ourense
Ourense (in Spanish, ''Orense'') is a Spanish province, in the southeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of Pontevedra to the west, L ...
, Galicia, Spain
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Coles, South Australia
Coles is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east within the Limestone Coast region about south east of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-west of the municipal seat of Naracoorte.
B ...
, Australia
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Coles Bay, Tasmania
Coles Bay is an Australian town on the east Coast of Tasmania 192 km north-east of Hobart and 173 km south-east of Launceston, being the main entrance point for visitors to the Freycinet National Park.
It has a population of 353 peo ...
, Australia
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Electoral district of Coles
Coles was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1970 to 2002. The district was based in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide.
Coles was first contested at the 1970 election and was won by Labo ...
in South Australia, renamed to Morialta in the 1998 electoral redistribution
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Coles County, Illinois
Coles County is a county in Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,863. Its county seat is Charleston, which is also the home of Eastern Illinois University.
Coles County is part of the Charleston- Mattoon, IL Micropolitan St ...
Other uses
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Coles 4038 The Coles 4038 is a ribbon microphone produced by Coles Electroacoustics. The microphone was designed and patented by the BBC in the 1950s and was originally known as the STC 4038. The sound of the microphone has been described as "British" with ...
, ribbon microphone produced by Coles Electroacoustics
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Coles (surname)
Coles is a patronymic surname of English origins deriving from either a pet form of the name Nicholas or from the Old English word meaning '"coal black".
Notable people with the surname include:
* Arthur William Coles (1892–1982), Australian ...
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Coles (given name)
Coles is a given name and may refer to:
*Coles Bashford (1816–1878), American lawyer and politician, fifth Governor of Wisconsin
*Coles Phillips (1880–1927), American artist and illustrator
*Coles Trapnell (1910–1999), American television pr ...
See also
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Coales Coales is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
* John Flavell Coales
John Flavell Coales CBE, FRS (14 September 1907 – 6 June 1999) was a British physicist and engineer. He started the Borehamwood laboratory of the Elliott Broth ...
(surname)
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