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Its various commercial brands for selling petroleum and gasoline products / fuel included Tydol, Flying A, and Veedol. In 2011, Veedol was sold by British Petroleum to Tidewater India. Now it is part of Andrew Yule and Company 's Indian group and manufactures automotive oil for the Indian market on the sub-continent of South Asia .
B. Barkers of Kensington; Barratts Shoes; Bata shoe factory; Edward Bates (department store) Bay Trading Company; Bearmans; Beatties of London; Benzie & Miller
to UK Owner # of shops Notes B&M: 1978 B&M European Value Retail S.A. 800+ The business was founded by Malcolm Billington as Billington & Mayman and the first store opened in Cleveleys, England, in 1978 and was acquired by Simon and Bobby Arora from Phildrew Investments in December 2004 Bargain Buys: 2013 Fortress Investment Group: 75
This store became the training ground for Leslie Wexner. In 1963, he borrowed $5,000 from his aunt and $5,000 from the bank and opened a store at the Kingsdale Shopping Center in Upper Arlington. [5] This store was named "The Limited" because the store focused on clothing for younger women, unlike his parents' general merchandise store.
Wexner opened the first store on August 10, 1963, in the Kingsdale Shopping Center in Upper Arlington, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus. One year later, Wexner's parents closed their store and joined their son in running The Limited. [8] He opened the second Limited store in August 1964. [10] He took Limited Brands public in 1969, listed as LTD on ...
Veedol No. 2 was one of three tankers specifically identified for purchase and limited conversion to arm the ships and provide crew quarters the Navy crews. [7] On 22 March 1943 Veedol No. 2 was requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration (WSA) for wartime service at Bayonne, New Jersey and simultaneously delivered to the Navy as purchaser ...
Nisa Local shop in Bingley in June 2012. Nisa was founded as the Northern Independent Supermarkets Association by Peter Garvin and Dudley B. Ramsden in 1977. [8] It was formed as a mutual organisation owned by its members and operating "...like a co-operative, using the collective buying power of the large group of members to negotiate deals with suppliers".
This is a list of defunct (mainly American) consumer brands which are no longer made and usually no longer mass-marketed to consumers. Brands in this list may still be made, but are only made in modest quantities and/or limited runs as a nostalgic or retro style item.