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Fortnum & Mason plc (colloquially often shortened to just Fortnum's) is an upmarket department store in London, England. The main store is located at 181 Piccadilly in the St James's area of London, where it was established in 1707 by William Fortnum and Hugh Mason.
Associated British Foods also owns British Sugar, processor of the entire UK beet crop and producer of half the UK consumption of sugar. [6] Further assets include ownership of the British department store Fortnum & Mason, [7] as well as Heal's, a chain of homeware and furnishing stores in the UK. [8]
Wittington Investments owns a majority stake in Associated British Foods (which itself owns the discount clothing chain Primark), and 100% of British retailers Fortnum & Mason and Heal's. In 2021, The Sunday Times named the Weston family among the most charitable people over the past 20 years, with donations of £1.661 billion. [6] [7]
Jun.15 -- “Confidence breeds consumption, breeds commerce,” says Fortnum & Mason Chief Executive Officer Ewen Venters as he discusses the re-opening of U.K. retail, what consumers can expect ...
Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly. Hobhouse started her career at Fortnum & Mason, a high-end department store that is owned by her family through Wittington Investments. [3] She serves as its chairman. [4] In addition, Hobhouse is on the Garfield Weston Foundation board of trustees. [3]
The London high-end grocer has apologised over failure to host Paralympic athletes alongside Team GB Olympians at event
LONDON — W. Galen Weston, the Canadian retailer whose businesses spanned two continents, has died aged 80 after a long illness, his family said Tuesday. Weston sat at the helm of food, retail ...
Khayat began her career by joining the management team of Fortnum & Mason, which is owned by her family.Since the death of her father, her brothers George and Guy have run Associated British Foods and Wittington Investments (the parent company of Fortnums's and ABF) respectively, while Khayat ran Fortnum's with help from her younger sister, Kate Hobhouse, as a non-executive director.