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Fosse Shopping Park is one of Britain's biggest out-of-town shopping parks and it is situated in Enderby parish, in Blaby district, on the southern edge of the city of Leicester, England. [ 1 ] The retail park is in an area of mixed industrial and commercial development, about half a mile from Junction 21 of the M1 , where it meets the M69 .
Leicestershire Police said just before 11:00 GMT on Saturday that the slip road from the A5460 to the roundabout with Lubbesthorpe Way near Fosse Park in Enderby had been closed.
WH Smith PLC, trading as WHSmith (also written WH Smith, and known colloquially as Smith's and formerly as W. H. Smith & Son), is a British retailer, with headquarters in Swindon, England, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionery.
The business can trace its roots to two do it yourself chains, Big K and Calypso. These were bought by LCP (Lunt Comley & Pitt) and traded as LCP Homecentres. In 1978, the business was acquired by WHSmith and renamed W.H. Smith Do It All Limited, trading as WHSmith Do It All.
WHSmith [21] then acquired the company in 1993 at an enterprise value of £47m, paying £5.27 a share on 8.1m 10p shares, a 53x multiple for the early-stage investors. [22] Under WHSmith, Waterstones pursued international expansion, opening its first US shop in Boston in 1991, [ 8 ] as well as further domestic expansion—opening its 100th UK ...
Fosse, Belgium, a district of the municipality of Trois-Ponts, Wallonia; Fossé, Loir-et-Cher, a commune in central France; Fosse, Pyrénées-Orientales, a town in France; Fosse Copse, a woodland in Devon, England; Fosse Farmhouse, an 18th-century farmhouse in the Cotswolds, UK; Fosse Shopping Park, an out of town shopping centre in Leicestershire
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Past Times was a United Kingdom high street retailer, specialising in gifts and retro style goods. It was established as a mail order company in 1986 by John Beale, [1] who was also the developer of the Early Learning Centre. [2] In June 1987, the company opened the first branch in Oxford.