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The company was established by John Wardle and David Makin (hence the name JD), trading from a single shop in Bury, Greater Manchester, in 1981. [5] The company opened a store in the Arndale Centre in Manchester in 1983. [6] Pentland Group bought Wardle's and Makin's shares for £44.6M in May 2005, [7] so acquiring 45% of the business. [8]
Pentland Group is a British privately held global company that owns and invests in, primarily, retail and wholesale businesses in the sports, outdoor and sports fashion sectors. The Group is the majority shareholder of JD Sports , which operates 2,420 stores across 19 territories.
JB Hi-Fi was established in the Melbourne suburb of Keilor East by John Barbuto in 1974, selling music and specialist hi-fi equipment. [3] Barbuto sold the business in 1983 to Richard Bouris, David Rodd and Peter Caserta, who expanded JB Hi-Fi into a chain of ten stores in Melbourne and Sydney turning over $150 million by 2000, when they sold the majority of their holding to private equity.
Chain of sports clothing shops started by David Hughes, which went into administration in 2005 with 267 shops – at the time the fourth largest sports chain. [85] JD Sports purchased the business from the administrator, including the remaining open 177 shops, which they aimed to run as a separate business. [ 86 ]
In 1976, Just Jeans bought failed Melbourne menswear chain Walsh's, giving the company its first presence in suburban shopping centres. In the following years, the company expanded to other states by acquiring clothing chains and relaunching them as Just Jeans. In 1979, it purchased the 12-store Jeans Junction chain in New South Wales for $1 ...
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