What is the name of the mail order company founded by Kate Middleton's parents in 1987?
"Leeds-born Michael was the grandson of Olive Middleton - a member of the Lupton family who are described in the City of Leeds archives as being ""landed gentry; a political and business dynasty"". In 1986, she and her family returned to West Berkshire, Bradfield Southend, after spending two-and-a-half years in Jordan. Her eldest daughter, Catherine, was aged four and attending the private preparatory college St Andrew's School, Pangbourne. In 1987, Middleton established ""Party Pieces"", a company which began by making party bags and which now sells party supplies and decorations by mail order. In 1995, under the joint leadership of"
"operators, the three Crown Dependencies use British postcodes in co-operation with Royal Mail; each dependency has its own postal area. The same prices are charged by the four operators for delivery throughout their collective area, though delivery times vary and interjurisdictional mail must clear customs. Royal Mail Royal Mail (; ) is a postal service and courier company in the United Kingdom, originally established in 1516. The company's subsidiary, Royal Mail Group Limited, operates the brands Royal Mail (letters) and Parcelforce Worldwide (parcels). General Logistics Systems, an international logistics company, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Mail Group. The"
"Cambridge Satchel Company The Cambridge Satchel Company is a British company that produces satchels and other leather goods. The company was founded in 2008, in Cambridge, England, by Julie Deane and her mother Freda Thomas as a way to pay private school fees for Deane's children. She had been looking for a durable, timeless schoolbag for her children, describing her goal as ""what Harry and Hermione would have used at Hogwarts"" and telling her children ""Harry Potter. I am telling you that is a boy that would have had a satchel with that Hogwarts school uniform."" Her colourful handmade leather"
"James Middleton (British businessman) James William Middleton (born 15 April 1987) is an English businessman and member of the Middleton family. Middleton's companies include Boomf. He is the younger brother of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Middleton was born on 15 April 1987 at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, the youngest child and only son of Michael Francis Middleton (born 1949), formerly a British Airways flight dispatcher, and Carole Goldsmith (born 1955), formerly flight attendant. His father came from a long line of solicitors who resided in Leeds, in Yorkshire, and one of James' great-grandmothers, Olive Middleton, was a member of"
"Royal Mail Royal Mail (; ) is a postal service and courier company in the United Kingdom, originally established in 1516. The company's subsidiary, Royal Mail Group Limited, operates the brands Royal Mail (letters) and Parcelforce Worldwide (parcels). General Logistics Systems, an international logistics company, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Mail Group. The company provides mail collection and delivery services throughout the UK. Letters are deposited in a pillar or wall box, taken to a post office, or collected in bulk from businesses. Deliveries are made at least once every day except Sundays and bank holidays at uniform"
"men. Cambridge Satchel Company The Cambridge Satchel Company is a British company that produces satchels and other leather goods. The company was founded in 2008, in Cambridge, England, by Julie Deane and her mother Freda Thomas as a way to pay private school fees for Deane's children. She had been looking for a durable, timeless schoolbag for her children, describing her goal as ""what Harry and Hermione would have used at Hogwarts"" and telling her children ""Harry Potter. I am telling you that is a boy that would have had a satchel with that Hogwarts school uniform."" Her colourful handmade"
"marshmallow designer. The winner was Bournemouth University student Izzy Burton. It was reported in August 2015 that the company had raised £1million in funding. Boomf Boomf is a UK company that delivers personalised gifts through the letterbox. The company launched in 2013 selling personalised marshmallows with photos printed on top. Boomf now offer a range of gifts including photo printed chocolate, the Boomf 'bomb' (a personalised greeting card that pops out of the envelope) and the Boomf 'Flutter' (a personalised greeting card with a butterfly flying out). Boomf was founded in November 2013 by James Middleton and Andy Bell. Middleton"
"Boomf Boomf is a UK company that delivers personalised gifts through the letterbox. The company launched in 2013 selling personalised marshmallows with photos printed on top. Boomf now offer a range of gifts including photo printed chocolate, the Boomf 'bomb' (a personalised greeting card that pops out of the envelope) and the Boomf 'Flutter' (a personalised greeting card with a butterfly flying out). Boomf was founded in November 2013 by James Middleton and Andy Bell. Middleton had previously founded Nice Cakes, which specialised in personalised cakes. Bell had previously founded Mint Digital, which created StickyGram (now Sticky9), an Instagram magnet"
"due to challenging market conditions. J Salmon Ltd J Salmon Ltd, founded in 1880, is a UK-based printing and publishing firm, and is recognized as the oldest established postcard and calendar publisher in Britain. It is based in Sevenoaks, Kent. The current managing directors of the firm are Harry and Charles Salmon. Joseph Salmon was a bookseller in London that bought a stationer's store in 1880 aiming to establish a general printing business in Kent. He held the reins of the business until 1898 when his son also Joseph Salmon took over control. In July 2017, it was announced that"
"Carole Middleton Carole Elizabeth Middleton (""née"" Goldsmith; born 31 January 1955) is a former flight attendant turned businesswoman, and mother of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Pippa Middleton and James Middleton. Middleton's first three grandchildren, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis of Cambridge, are third, fourth and fifth in line to the British throne respectively. Carole Middleton was born in 31 January 1955 at Perivale Maternity Hospital in Perivale, London, the daughter of Dorothy Harrison and Ronald Goldsmith; she is the older sister of IT recruitment multi-millionaire Gary Goldsmith. She spent her early years in a small house in Southall,"
"Cath Kidston Catherine Isabel Audrey ""Cath"" Kidston, MBE, (born 6 November 1958) is an English fashion designer, businesswoman and author whose company, Cath Kidston Limited sells home furnishings and related goods through shops, online and by mail order. She is particularly known for her nostalgic floral patterns and has also published a number of books. Kidston's grandfather Glen Kidston was a successful racing driver for Bentley in the 1920s, who was married to Nancie, Samantha Cameron's paternal grandmother. Kidston's uncle is the former chairman of Christie's, Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip and his daughters, television presenters, Kirstie Allsopp and"
"Chelsea, Islington, Rotherhithe, Plymouth and Birmingham. William Richard Sutton William Richard Sutton (1833-1900) was the founder of the UK's first door-to-door long distance parcel service and founder of the William Sutton housing trust. William Richard Sutton was born in 1833 at London's Cheapside. Sutton founded the business of Sutton and Co., general carriers in 1861. He noted that the Royal Mail could carry letters from door to door, but they did not carry parcels; instead the sender had to arrange for delivery to a railway station, goods freight to a station near the destination, and then make separate arrangements for"
"Australia. It exports to more than 100 countries, and was awarded The Queen's Award for Enterprise for International Trade in 2017. Nisbets was founded by Andrew Nisbet in 1983. It started out selling knives, catering clothing and textbooks to catering colleges, building on the business of Nisbet’s father, Peter Nisbet, which provided catering kits to colleges in South West England. In 1987, the company launched its first mail-order catalogue, selling products to students and trade customers. ""Catering Insight"" called the mail order catalogue the ""bedrock of the company”. Nisbets acquired catering wholesaler Red Ball in 1990, which was rebranded as"
"is now at Nos. 98–100 Jermyn Street. Charles Tyrwhitt uses a high-low pricing sales model. His wife, Chrissie Rucker, is the founder and owner of The White Company. Charles Tyrwhitt was founded as a mail order company in 1986 by Nicholas Charles Tyrwhitt Wheeler, while he was a student at Bristol University. The company began operating from a small space on Fulham Road, London, before expanding the business with retail and e-commerce stores. Beginning as a gentleman’s shirt makers, the offering has since expanded to include suits, shoes, knitwear, accessories and a collection of business casual wear. Charles Tyrwhitt produces"
"Hobbs Ltd Hobbs is a women’s clothing, footwear and accessories retailer based in London, UK. It was founded in Hampstead in 1981 and began as a shoe retailer. Hobbs now has stores across the United Kingdom and concession stores in the United States and Germany. The online store serves 55 countries worldwide. Hobbs is popularly associated with clothing priced in the mid range for a customer base that is largely middle-aged and older. Among its best-known customers are the Duchess of Cambridge and her sister, Pippa Middleton. Hobbs was established in Hampstead in 1981, when Yoram and Marilyn Anselm wished"
"company operates some 900 stores. Macmillan Cancer Support is the company's chosen charity; Card Factory donations to the charity had totalled £1 million by 2008 and £3 million by 2014. The company has been successfully prosecuted for Health and Safety infringements on a number of occasions. Incidents have included poor stock management, overstocking of stores, damaged equipment, inadequate risk assessments and staff training. Card Factory Card Factory is a chain of greeting card and gift stores in United Kingdom founded by Dean Hoyle and his wife Janet; the first store opened in 1997. It is listed on the London Stock"
"late to stop the decline, and Amtrak went into administration again and ceased trading on 22 August 2008. UK Mail and the Business Post Group handled existing carriage and all future business. Amtrak Express Parcels Amtrak Express Parcels was a parcel delivery company in the United Kingdom, which went bankrupt in 2012. It was founded in 1987 by Roger and Elaine Baines, who grew the business from a small outfit based in the West Midlands into a nationwide parcel carrier, with around 1,000 vehicles, operating out of around one hundred distribution centres. The growth of the company in the early"
"The Aladdin Company The Aladdin Company was a pioneer in the pre-cut, mail order home industry. Its primary competitors were Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck and Company in the US and Eaton's in Canada. Two other kit home manufacturers, Lewis and Sterling, were also based in Bay City. Aladdin began operations in 1906 and ceased operations in 1987. In 2014 the rights to the company name and logo were acquired by Charles Munro and sold to GreenTerraHomes in 2018 Aladdin was founded by two brothers, W. J. Sovereign and O. E. Sovereign in Bay City, Michigan after W. J. observed"
"perishable commodities. They hauled beef carcasses from Argentina to Britain. Their regularly scheduled shipments and ships developed into the Nelson Line that was formed in 1880 for the meat trade from Argentina to UK. Refrigeration made it possible to import meat from the United States, New Zealand, Argentina and Australia. All of their ships had a ""Highland"" first name. The Nelson Line began passenger service in 1910 between London, England and Buenos Aires and in 1913 came under control of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. In 1932 Royal Mail Group collapsed, Royal Mail Lines Ltd was founded, and Nelson"
"they would pay via their account. If they returned the items, they would not be charged. It proved very successful and within a year, much larger premises in Silver Street Reading were obtained. John’s partner was an accountant named David so Beal used his middle name to avoid confusion. John and David were excellent employers and thoroughly nice chaps. Those early years were exciting and hugely fulfilling. Soon it started to spread and shops started to appear in every town. Originally set up as a mail order company in 1974 and based near Swindon, by 1980, it had ten shops,"
"an elegant return to the line of business of the firm's founding fathers, Swaine Adeney Brigg were asked to make six postilion whips for the wedding of the Duke of Cambridge to Miss Catherine Middleton in 2011. With expiry of the lease on 54 St James's Street, Swaine Adeney Brigg moved to 7 Piccadilly Arcade, off Piccadilly, and in 2015 opened a second shop at 16 St John's Street, Cambridge. Swaine Adeney Brigg Swaine Adeney Brigg is a British luxury bridle-leather luggage maker and umbrella-maker and retailer founded in the mid-eighteenth century. The firm of Swaine & Adeney was said"
"and by Prima Magazine for‘Best Mail Order Brand’, a title they retained the following year. The parent company, now renamed Otto UK, announced a restructure of the UK based business in 2009, bringing all its home shopping brands together under the brand Freemans Grattans Holdings (FGH), utilising the popularity of the Freemans name in the UK. Freemans embraced the concept of celebrity endorsement and elicited the help of one of the world's first international supermodels, Twiggy, to promote the brand in the 1960s. Pop icon Lulu began modelling for the Freemans catalogue in the 1970s and early 1980s as the"
"9 May, with Peter Saville, Simon Freakley and Anne O’Keefe of Zolfo Cooper LLP, appointed as Joint Administrators of the Company. A week later 350 branches were closed, including all the Birthdays branches, and the remaining 397 stores were purchased in June 2012 by US based American Greetings' subsidiary Lakeshore Lending Limited. Clintons Clintons, previously branded as Clinton Cards, is a chain of stores in the UK founded in 1968 by Don Lewin and known for selling greeting cards, together with soft toys and related gift products. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of"
"through Richemont, by the South African Rupert family, and Elle Pagels, a 24-year-old granddaughter of Pierre Cartier. Cartier operates more than 200 stores in 125 countries, with three Temples (Historical Maison) worldwide: In October 2014 the first blocking order against trademark infringing consumer goods was passed against the major UK ISPs by Richemont, Cartier International and Montblanc to block several domains selling trademark infringing products. Cartier (jeweler) Société Cartier (; ) is a French luxury goods conglomerate company which designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells jewellery and watches. Founded in Paris, France, in 1847 by Louis-François Cartier, the company remained under"
"Cadbury Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company wholly owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010. It is the second-largest confectionery brand in the world after Mars. Cadbury is internationally headquartered in Uxbridge, West London, and operates in more than 50 countries worldwide. It is known for its Dairy Milk chocolate, the Creme Egg and Roses selection box, and many other confectionery products. One of the best-known British brands, in 2013 ""The Daily Telegraph"" named Cadbury among Britain's most successful exports. Cadbury was established in Birmingham, England in 1824, by John Cadbury who"
"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"
"DHL Parcel UK Limited in 2018, and its parcel service rebranded, although the UK Mail name will continue to be used for mail and packet services. UK Mail originated as a taxi firm in Harrow in 1971. In just a few years, the company evolved into a national business offering same day courier and overnight parcel delivery. By 1986, the then much larger company became Business Post and was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1993. UK Mail was granted a seven year licence by Postcomm in 2003 to provide postal services for business customers. It began trading in"
"Daily Mail The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London. Founded in 1896, it is the United Kingdom's second-biggest-selling daily newspaper after ""The Sun"". Its sister paper ""The Mail on Sunday"" was launched in 1982, while Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. Content from the paper appears on the MailOnline website, although the website is managed separately and has its own editor. The paper is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of one of the original co-founders,"
"such as Gareth Williams and Rob Dobson. The success of the seed funding has facilitated the growth both in UK and abroad, and allowed to increase the staff up to fourteen members. In June 2014 Mallzee raised £2.5 million. This was led by the Royal Mail Group, a postal service company in the United Kingdom. Royal Mail Group also got contributions from the Scottish Investment Bank, Par Equity, and a group of entrepreneurs including Gareth Williams, CEO of Skyscanner. Losses filed at the company via Companies House have been increasing rapidly. In 2014 they were £95k, 2015 £381k, 2016 £1.25m,"
"goods and services. Entrepreneurs, including Matthew Boulton and pottery manufacturer, Josiah Wedgwood, pioneered many of the marketing strategies used today, including direct marketing. The Welsh entrepreneur Pryce Pryce-Jones set up the first modern mail order in 1861. Starting off as an apprentice to a local draper in Newtown, Wales, he took over the business in 1856 and renamed it the Royal Welsh Warehouse, selling local Welsh flannel. Improvements in transportation systems combined with the advent of the Uniform Penny Post in the mid-19th century provided the necessary conditions for rapid growth in mail order services. In 1861, Pryce-Jones hit upon"
"Paperless Post Paperless Post is an e-commerce company focusing on design-driven online and printed stationery, including greetings, invitations, birth announcements, wedding suites, and custom stationery. Paperless Post partners with leading fashion designers including kate spade new york, Kelly Wearstler, and Oscar de la Renta. The company is based in New York City. Paperless Post was founded by sibling entrepreneurs James and Alexa Hirschfeld in 2008 when they were 23 and 25 years old. It began as an online-only company and launched printed stationery in 2012. The company partners with designers like Kate Spade New York to produce original work. In"
"Mail Order Corporation Ltd (BMOC) and Kay & Company Ltd. By 1983 the company had expanded its range of operations significantly. Catalogue mail order was by far the company's primary business but the company was also engaged in retailing through shops, the manufacture of clothing and household goods, financial services, property investment and travel. By this time the business was international, with operations in Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Canada, South Africa and Australia and smaller interests in Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, the United States and Hong Kong. The company acquired Argos in 1998 and the UK's second largest online retailer"
"UK Mail UK Mail, a trading name of DHL Parcel UK Limited and formerly known as Business Post, is a postal service company operating in the United Kingdom, which has competed with the Royal Mail in collection and distribution of mail since the deregulation of the postal service in January 2006. Its distribution network delivers mail to local Royal Mail sorting offices for last mile delivery through downstream access. UK Mail competes primarily with Royal Mail and Whistl. Since December 2016, the company has been owned by Deutsche Post AG. The company name was changed from UK Mail Limited to"