Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Inspired by the Ca’ d’Oro in Venice, the Ca d’Oro Building is designed in the style of Venetian Renaissance architecture.Set on the corner between Union Street and Gordon Street in the centre of Glasgow, the building is just north of the Egyptian Halls, with Glasgow Central train station opposite across Union Street.
By the end of 2010 the company had 24 stores, including a concession in House of Fraser, and had locations across the UK, including Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester and Glasgow. [9] In July 2013, the original founders formed a new company Coin Furniture Ltd (CFL). In February 2014, Dwell entered into a marketing partnership with larger retailer ...
Sterling Furniture is Scotland's largest furniture retail development based in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire. It was founded in 1974 by Stirling -based furniture retailer George Knowles, who based its concept on the out-of-town retail developments which had been successful in the United States.
Application for planning permission was submitted in September 2015 by Glasgow developers Savills (UK) Ltd located on West George Street in the city. [3] The 840.00sq.m site previously housed a furniture showroom (itself a converted church) which would be demolished in order for construction of Bridle Works Building to commence.
Schreiber was a brand of fitted kitchen and furniture operating in the United Kingdom. Started in 1957 by Chaim Schreiber to make furniture, Schreiber became an extremely successful brand in furniture from the 1960s to the early 1970s, challenging both Harris Lebus and Gomme for domination. In the 1970s it became vertically integrated by ...
Glasgow: 1908 Glasgow based group with stores in Scotland and one in England. 15 1990 Grant-Warden Walton on Thames: Stores in Walton on Thames, Nottingham (formerly Tobys) and Ilford. Bought by Beales. [78] Great Northern and Southern Stores 1936 Holding company of the fourth largest group of department stores during 1930s.
The James Watt Street fire on Monday, 18 November 1968, was a fatal factory fire in Glasgow, Scotland, with 22 employees killed. [1] The number of fatalities was a consequence of the building retaining barred windows, a feature remaining from its previous use as a whisky bond.
G Plan is a British furniture brand. It began as a pioneering range of furniture in the United Kingdom produced by E Gomme Ltd of High Wycombe.The success of G Plan led to E Gomme becoming one of the UK's largest furniture manufacturers, with profits increasing sixfold between 1952 and 1958 when it was floated as an IPO.