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Northlands Shopping Centre, in Christchurch, New Zealand, is the South Island's second-largest mall. Founded in 1967, it is owned by Mackersy Northlands Limited Partnership. [1] The Shopping centre is single-level, with over 110 tenants, including shops, bars, cafés and restaurants. It also has a multistorey car park.
The first Countdown Foodbarn store opened in May 1981 at the Northlands Shopping Centre in Christchurch. [4] The store was owned by Rattrays Wholesale. [5] The Rattrays Wholesale Group later included Rattrays Cash and Carry warehouses, [6] tobacco vans (latter known as Red Arrow Distributors) and the SuperValue franchised supermarkets.
The British branch of the F. W. Woolworth Company, which had been founded in Pennsylvania, F. W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd, was founded by Frank Woolworth in Liverpool, England, on 5 November 1909. [18] Frank Woolworth had ancestry in Woolley, Cambridgeshire — Frank claimed he had traced his ancestry through the Founding Fathers of the district to ...
Wellworths in Dorchester. January 2009 saw the closure of the final 200 Woolworths stores in the UK, including the Dorchester branch. At the time of closure, Claire Robertson was the store manager and after the closure of her branch, she decided to open her own version of the store in the former Woolworths premises [1] [2] BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans officially re-opened the store on 11 March ...
Following the split of Kingfisher, alongside low sales and poor financial results, Woolworths scrapped the Big W format in 2004, selling a quarter of the stores off while keeping the rest, operating them in a smaller format known as Woolworths Out-of-Town Stores. These stores remained in operation until the administration and closure of ...
Christchurch (/ ˈ k r aɪ s (t) tʃ ɜːr tʃ /) is a town and civil parish on the south coast [3] of Dorset, England. The parish had a population of 31,372 in 2021. [ 1 ] It adjoins Bournemouth to the west, with the New Forest to the east.
The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or simply Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the pioneers of the five-and-dime store.It was among the most successful American and international five-and-dime businesses, setting trends and creating the modern retail model that stores follow worldwide today.
This is a list of settlements and other places in Dorset, England. Towns, and settlements with populations over 3,000, are listed in bold ; other settlements in plain text. Contents: