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Tesco completed its acquisition of Dobbies in 2008, and the company continued to trade under its own brand, from its own head office in Melville, near Edinburgh. On 17 June 2016, Tesco sold the company on to a group of investors led by Midlothian Capital Partners and Hattington Capital for £217 million.
Dobbies Garden Centre, Aberdeen. The business was founded in 1865 by James Dobbie, who created a seeds business named Dobbie & Co. in Renfrew, Scotland.After being awarded the Royal Warrant for Gardeners and Nurserymen to the Royal Household, the company expanded into a seed catalogue business, where it built up a customer base of 50,000 over the following century.
Premier is a symbol group in the United Kingdom established in 1994, with over 3,000 stores nationwide. Tesco took ownership of the brand in 2018 after its purchase of Booker Group. [2] Premier stores are generally convenience shops, stocking branded and own brand products, such as Euro Shopper [3] [4] [5] and Jacks (part of the Tesco family ...
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In March 2001, Hunter was a founding partner of West Coast Capital, the private equity arm of the Hunter Family. Through this firm he has become a major shareholder in a number of retailers – including USC, Office, D2, Qube; and 8% of British Home Stores (BHS), with the bulk owned by Sir Philip Green, subsequently disposing of them all.
Many stores also include a "Dee Dee's", an own-brand coffee shop concept operated by Compass Group [19] and found only within The Range stores. Newer, larger stores offer an Iceland food department (paid for at main tills), [ 20 ] and the cafes in stores with Iceland are branded 'Iceland Cafe'. [ 21 ]