"in Gillingham, ceased trading. In December 2011, the brand was bought by the Walker Group, which owns Victoria Plumb. Focus DIY Focus DIY was a privately owned chain of DIY stores in the United Kingdom. It served the consumer DIY market sector, and most stores had some form of garden centre. At its peak in 2002, it was the second largest DIY retailer in the United Kingdom, although by 2011, it was the fourth. The main competitors were B&Q, Homebase and Wickes. The company operated 178 stores in the United Kingdom with 3,000 employees, but had been running losses every"
"under the Dunhill brand. The ten-year, worldwide agreement replaces Dunhill's contract with Procter & Gamble, which ended in April 2013. Developed in the mid-1950s, Dunhill produced one of the first butane gas lighters. This iconic design has remained relatively unchanged since and was regularly used by James Bond in both print and on the screen. Alfred Dunhill Ltd. Alfred Dunhill Limited (known and stylised as dunhill) is a British luxury goods brand, specialising in ready-to-wear, custom and bespoke menswear, leather goods, and accessories. The company is based in London, where it also owns and operates a leather workshop. The company"
"UK is part of Pulse Home Products Ltd and develops upright, cylinder, and handheld vacuum cleaners for the UK and Ireland. Dirt Devil Dirt Devil is a brand name of household vacuum cleaners and floor care. There are two main units: Power for large houses, and RV unit for smaller houses or apartments, as well as a variety of other floor care products including handheld vacuum cleaners and carpet shampooing machines. The company was founded in 1905 in Cleveland, Ohio by Philip Geier as Royal Manufacturing. In 1955 they built the first household vacuum with a patented Cyclone system. Since"
"conditions. Silvan Byggemarked Silvan is a Danish retail DIY store with headquarters in Århus, Denmark. In July 2017, Silvan was bought by Aurelius Equity Group. It had been part of DT Group, owned by the British building materials supplier company Wolseley plc. Silvan opened its first DIY store in Slagelse in 1968, and today operates 40 do-it-yourself retail stores in Denmark, as well as 11 stores in the southern part of Sweden. Besides retailing, Silvan also offers DIY schools. In 2008 Silvan and its sister company Stark were widely criticized due to the selling of granite from India, produced under"
"acquired for £7m by wholesaler Bestway, while Matthew Clark and Bibendum were acquired by C&C Group, the owner of Magners cider. Bargain Booze Bargain Booze is a chain of off licence shops, that operates in the United Kingdom. Established in 1981, it grew to 611 shops, and opened the ""Bargain Booze Select Convenience"" shop franchise. From 2013 to April 2017, it was owned by Conviviality plc, who also owned the Wine Rack chain; both brands were acquired by Bestway on 6 April 2018. The company originates from a wholesale wine and spirits business, founded by Allan Whittle & Robert Mayor."
"Dunelm Group Dunelm Group plc (formerly Dunelm Mill) is a British home furnishings retailer with 170 stores and over 100 in-store Pausa coffee shops, throughout the United Kingdom. One of the largest homewares retailers in the United Kingdom, Dunelm's headquarters are in Watermead Business Park, Syston in Leicestershire, England. It also has its own factory for curtains, blinds and accessories, based in Leicester. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Dunelm was founded in 1979 by Bill Adderley and Jeany Adderley, trading in home textiles from a market stall in"
"Silvan Byggemarked Silvan is a Danish retail DIY store with headquarters in Århus, Denmark. In July 2017, Silvan was bought by Aurelius Equity Group. It had been part of DT Group, owned by the British building materials supplier company Wolseley plc. Silvan opened its first DIY store in Slagelse in 1968, and today operates 40 do-it-yourself retail stores in Denmark, as well as 11 stores in the southern part of Sweden. Besides retailing, Silvan also offers DIY schools. In 2008 Silvan and its sister company Stark were widely criticized due to the selling of granite from India, produced under objectionable"
"Bobby Davro. Eddie Healey Eddie Healey (born 22 April 1938) is a British entrepreneur. He and his brother, Malcolm, started work in their family's paint firm, and soon started a DIY chain, Status Discount, which grew to have 63 stores in northern England. In 1980, Status was sold to MFI, where Healey worked until 1982. Healey bought a derelict site in Sheffield, where he built Meadowhall Shopping Centre. In 1999, he sold it to British Land for £1.17 billion, a profit of £420 million. Healey and his wife Carol live at Westella Hall, Kirk Ella, Yorkshire. Their son, Mark Healey,"
"design. Payless core products at the heavy end, i.e. building and timber products, were no longer promoted. The jobbing builder market was lost to the new UK Wickes chain. Following poor trading, WH Smith extricated itself from the merger and then Boots sold Do It All to Focus DIY in 1998. The Focus group retained some of the Payless own-brand ranges and successfully bought up Wickes - later selling them at a substantial profit to Travis Perkins. https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Marley_Tile_Co Payless DIY Payless DIY was the name of a chain of DIY stores in the UK during the 1980s. The name was"
"Liverpool F.C. CEO Rick Parry. It was announced on November 19, 2013 that Tie Rack will begin closure of the remaining 44 retail stores on 20 November 2013. Tie Rack Tie Rack was a British-based tie retailer that sells scarves, cufflinks, and many other items of clothing. The stores are often small due to the nature of the product, and as such, are found in airports, railway stations, and shopping centres across the world. Tie Rack was founded in August 1981 by Roy Bishko. The first store opened in London at 91 Oxford Street; it was converted from a heel"
"chemicals and laundry products, garden care, outdoor leisure, DIY tools and materials, home office and technology. The business has also expanded into seasonal gifting ranges at key times of the year. Robert Dyas Robert Dyas is a UK hardware retailer founded in London in 1872. It sells a range of housewares, small electrical appliances, gardening products, kitchenwares, DIY, and consumer electronics throughout 96 shops, mainly in Greater London and South East England, as well as online. Since 2012 Robert Dyas has been owned by Theo Paphitis, the entrepreneur and long-time star of BBC's Dragons' Den. Robert Dyas emigrated to England"
"designed by Louis Sullivan, built in 1899 for the retail firm Schlesinger & Mayer, and expanded and sold to Carson Pirie Scott in 1904, and occupied by them for more than a century. The chain began in 1854 when Scotsmen Samuel Carson and John Pirie first clerked in the Murray's dry goods store in Peru, Illinois - then opened their own store in LaSalle followed by one in Amboy. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed 60% of the store's stock. In 1961, Carson Pirie Scott & Co. greatly expanded in Illinois by purchasing the 20 unit Block & Kuhl"
"Cath Kidston Limited Cath Kidston Limited is a British international chain of home furnishing retail stores based in England, registered with Companies House, number 02808583, on 13 April 1993. Designer Cath Kidston opened her first shop in London's Holland Park in 1994, selling hand-embroidered tea-towels and brightly renovated furniture. She later described it as just a ""glorified junk shop"". In April 2011, there were 41 shops and concessions in the UK, two in the Republic of Ireland, eleven in Japan and three in Korea. Less than three years later, there were 136 outlets, including a flagship store on Piccadilly next"
"retaining a minority stake and remaining the company's Creative Director. In October 2016, TA Associates sold its stake to Baring Private Equity Asia for an undisclosed amount. The transaction saw chairman Paul Mason replaced by William Flanz, former chairman and executive of Gucci Group. Cath Kidston Limited Cath Kidston Limited is a British international chain of home furnishing retail stores based in England, registered with Companies House, number 02808583, on 13 April 1993. Designer Cath Kidston opened her first shop in London's Holland Park in 1994, selling hand-embroidered tea-towels and brightly renovated furniture. She later described it as just a"
"Bill Archer (businessman) William Ernest Archer is a British businessman. In 1987 Archer and Greg Stanley of Fads DIY acquired Choice DIY, a small do it yourself (DIY) company with six stores in the Midlands and the north of England for £900,000. In 1988 the Focus DIY company was bought by Archer and all stores were re-branded Focus DIY. With the help of private equity the chain grew to 72 stores in the United Kingdom. By 2002 the chain had grown to over 450 stores following several buyouts including the Wickes DIY chain. Archer and his partners received over £650"
"1973. He worked first as a pattern grader with Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell, then hugely influential designers for the boutique Quorum. By this stage the boutique had been sold by Alice Pollock to Alfred Radley. Barnett and Sheilagh Brown began a closer design association with Quorum, designing both under their own names and the Barnett and Brown eponym. Their joint label continued to gain in momentum after Quorum closed in 1975. While the label was critically successful, it would later flounder financially. Speaking in 2009 in a film produced for the ""Super Contemporary"" exhibition at London's Design Museum, Brown"
"1970, with the first stores based in South Australia. During the 1970s the chain expanded into the eastern states of Australia, with stores opening in Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. In 1981, the parent company, John Martins, was taken over by Solomon Lew, who subsequently sold the firm to the Melbourne-based Cooke family, headed by David Cooke. The John Martins business was sold to Sydney-based retailer David Jones Limited in 1985, with the Cooke family retaining ownership of Venture. The Cooke family appointed experienced retailer Bob Burke to manage the chain in 1981, and he revitalised the chain,"
"Kiddicare Kiddicare is a British multichannel retailer, selling nursery supplies and merchandise for children and young families. Founded and owned by Marilyn and Neville Wright, it was the largest privately owned online retailer of its kind, until its acquisition by Morrisons in 2011. On 14 July 2014, it was sold to Endless LLP for £2 million. In 2016, Kiddicare and its parent Worldstores were purchased by the British homeware retailer Dunelm Group. In 2018, after suffering millions of pounds of losses while attempting to integrate the Kiddicare business into Dunelm's legacy supply chain operation, the brand was closed. Kiddicare was"
"Robert Dyas Robert Dyas is a UK hardware retailer founded in London in 1872. It sells a range of housewares, small electrical appliances, gardening products, kitchenwares, DIY, and consumer electronics throughout 96 shops, mainly in Greater London and South East England, as well as online. Since 2012 Robert Dyas has been owned by Theo Paphitis, the entrepreneur and long-time star of BBC's Dragons' Den. Robert Dyas emigrated to England from County Meath, Ireland, and with an inheritance of just £5 he opened his first shop in the capital in 1872. By the time of his death at the age of"
"Chain Reaction Cycles Chain Reaction Cycles is an online retailer of cycling goods - based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, A 2017 merger with Wiggle Ltd resulted in the formation of the Wiggle-CRC Group, whose head office is in Portsmouth, UK. Chain Reaction Cycles started out as a small bike shop named Ballynure Cycles which was opened in 1985 by George and Janice Watson using a £1500 bank loan in the small village of Ballynure in Northern Ireland. The business moved to larger premises in Ballyclare in 1989 and the name of the shop was changed to Ballyclare Cycles. During this"
"the product of a merger between two DIY chains, ""Big K"" & ""Calypso"", which were bought by ""LCP"", ""Lunt Comley"" & ""Pitt"", as a cash generator for their industrial group, which had been formed following the nationalisation of the coal mines. Do It All sold a range of over 25,000 DIY products, including paint, wallpaper, tools and power tools, and construction materials. This was such as plywood and chipboard. All stores had an inhouse timber cutting service, and all but the smallest had in store concessions. This was such as the store in Bury, Greater Manchester, which included floorspace for"
"Boodles (company) Boodles is a privately held British luxury jeweller and jewellery designer group founded in 1798. Boodles is family company located in Liverpool, it also has stores in London, Manchester, Dublin and Chester. Their flagship store is found on New Bond Street, London. Founded as Boodle and Dunthorne, The first shop opened in 1798 in Liverpool. Later in 1910 it amalgamated with the Wainwright family, owners of another Liverpool jewellers. The business has remained with them ever since. In 1965 Boodles opened a second store in Chester and a third one in Manchester in 1982. Nicholas and Michael Wainwright"
"Wiggle Ltd Wiggle is a leading European online sports retailer, selling cycle, run, swim and outdoor equipment and apparel. It is based in Portsmouth, England. The company forms part of the WiggleCRC group, which also includes Chain Reaction Cycles. The origins of Wiggle trace back to a local bike shop called Butlers Cycles, located in Portsmouth. Mitch Dall, a founder of Wiggle, bought the shop in 1995. Wiggle started officially trading on 28 May 1999, with an initial investment of £2000 from Mitch Dall and Harvey Jones. Between 1999 and 2009, Wiggle experienced strong growth, experimented with online retail, and"
"Alfred Dunhill Ltd. Alfred Dunhill Limited (known and stylised as dunhill) is a British luxury goods brand, specialising in ready-to-wear, custom and bespoke menswear, leather goods, and accessories. The company is based in London, where it also owns and operates a leather workshop. The company is currently owned by Richemont Holdings (UK) Limited and managed by CEO Andrew Maag. The business was developed by Alfred Dunhill after he inherited his father's saddlery business on London's Euston Road at the age of 21 in 1893. Alfred Dunhill, responding to the growing demand for automobiles at this time, developed a line of"
"Cotswold Outdoor Cotswold Outdoor is a trading brand of AS Adventure Group, who also own the Snow and Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need chains of shops. An outdoor recreation retailer in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1974, the company originated in the Cotswolds, and was based out of a garage next to the Cotswold Water Park, from which the founders sold basic camping accessories. Cotswold Outdoor is the recommended retailer for the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, the National Trust and the Ramblers, amongst other outdoor groups. Cotswold Outdoor has 79 stores across the United Kingdom, an e-commerce website"
"Oxford (toy company) Oxford Co., Ltd. () is a South Korean toy company, based in Busan, that makes interlocking brick toys. The company was first founded in 1961 as Dongjin Ind. Corp. In 1971, toy sales company Daegoo Lucky toy corp was established. In 1972, toy sales company Busan Lucky toy corp was established. In 1984, toy manufacturer PAPA toy Ind. Corp. was established. In 1992, PAPA was renamed to Oxford co., ltd. The company's small sized blocks are compatible with Lego brand bricks, and the company makes blocks in larger sizes for younger children. Oxford has licenses to make"
"developed toys such as Merlin, ""Star Wars"" figures, Strawberry Shortcake and the Care Bears. The company was founded as Caselloid on Britannia Street in Leicester by Alfred Edward Pallett in 1919 to produce celluloid soap dishes for Woolworth. Other products followed such as babies rattles and other fancy goods. Their first toy which was the windmill was in 1920 which continued to be sold until 1964. The first doll was Diddums in 1925 which was based on the characters devised by illustrator Mabel Lucy Atwell. In 1930 Cascelloid was bought by Bakelite Xylonite Limited (BXL) and a new factory built"
"New Look (company) New Look is a British global fashion retailer with a chain of high street shops. It was founded in 1969 and has been owned since May 2015 by investment company Brait SA, controlled by Christo Wiese. The chain sells womenswear, menswear, and clothing for teens. New Look was founded by Tom Singh in Wellington, Somerset in 1969. Since then the company has rapidly expanded and now operates across a chain of over 900 stores internationally, including Belgium (they opened their first Belgium store in 2006), France, the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland, Romania, Malta, Malaysia, South Korea,"
"What Katie Did (company) What Katie Did is a British lingerie design house founded in 1999 by Katie Thomas. In 1999, being unable to afford fully fashioned stockings, Thomas decided to invest in nylons to sell at The London Fetish Fair. This led to Thomas creating her own website. In 2002, What Katie Did's first reproduction of the Bullet bra was launched, the first to be produced in the country. The next year, the company opened a boutique in London Portobello. In 2010, Thomas was asked to advise on an bra of Marilyn Monroe that was put up for auction."
"QD stores QD Stores is a discount retailer based in Norwich, England with shops across East Anglia and Essex. QD Stores was started in Norwich in 1984, with QD standing for ""quality discounts"". The business has grown slowly and now has 25 shops located across East Anglia, although it has a shop in Wrexham and also has a shop in Doncaster. It sells a mixture of items for the home and garden, clothing and groceries. During the 1990s QD Stores purchased the small department store Lathams of Potter Heigham, which it still operates under the original name, and set up"
"of its former employees their jobs back. Liverpool-based Rapid Discount Outlet has taken the top spot in the table of the best performing retail websites in Q3, according to the latest quarterly testing undertaken by digital specialist Sitemorse on the websites of the UK's top 500 retailers. Rapid Discount Outlet Rapid Discount Outlet, formally known as Rapid Hardware, is a Liverpool local DIY and home improvement retailing company. The company is run by Martin Doherty and Daniel Doherty (directors) since it opened; The store has featured on the hit BBC TV series The Apprentice. Rapid Hardware was opened in 1971"
"Mica DIY Mica is the brand name of the voluntary trading group ""Mica DIY Ltd"" (also referred to as a Symbol group) for independent do it yourself (DIY) and hardware retailers in the UK, who work together for group benefit in marketing, buying and retail support. It has around 60 members in the United Kingdom (UK), including all four nations of the United Kingdom. The majority are in England – currently around forty-four; in Wales there are six, there are also six in Scotland, and four in Northern Ireland. Their size and locations are diverse. Their headquarters are in Stone,"
"Korea and Japan. Every October, Brighton Collectibles comes out with their annual ""Power of Pink"" bracelet, which benefits local Breast Cancer charities. In 2007, the company won a case before the U.S. Supreme Court to allow price floors in ""Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc."". Brighton Collectibles Brighton Collectibles (Brighton) is an accessories manufacturer and retailer, with over 195 retail stores in the United States. Brighton products are also sold in more than 7,000 boutiques nationwide. The concept for Brighton began when Terri Kravitz and Jerry Kohl, high school sweethearts, opened a specialty retail store. In 1991, Terri"