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Wallis is an online British women's clothing brand. Previously a retailer, Wallis operated from 134 stores and 126 concessions across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Wallis was a subsidiary of the Arcadia Group before its collapse in late 2020. The brand is now owned by Boohoo.com.
Arcadia Group Ltd (formerly Arcadia Group plc and, until 1998, [1] Burton Group plc) was a British multinational retailing company headquartered in London, England.It was best known for being the previous parent company of British Home Stores (BHS), Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Debenhams, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Topman, Topshop, Wallis and Warehouse.
Founded in 1894 in Zlín, Moravia, by Tomáš Baťa, Bata opened a factory at East Tilbury in Essex with an attached workers town in 1932. Bata opened shops across the UK but grew largely after the Second World War when "British Bata" was born. [121] Bata started closing their UK retail operations in the 1980s. Bay Trading Company
In April 1972, Leslie Erastus was killed when a plane, piloted by rival supermarket owner Francis John Wallis of Wallis Supermarkets, crashed in the French Alps. [2] Cater's estate was valued at £91,747. After his death, the Cater family decided to accept an offer of £7 million for the business from Debenhams, in 1973.
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The store was sold to Busbys of Bradford in 1953 who rebranded the store under the Busbys name. Busbys was itself purchased by Debenhams in 1958. The store was renamed Debenhams in 1973 and continued to trade from the same site until Debenhams' closure in 2021. 1953 [190] [271] A H Bull Reading: Bought by Selfridge Provincial Stores.
Soon, most towns in Southern England had their own International Tea Co. store, [1] as immortalised in a verse from John Betjeman's poem Myfanwy: [4] Smooth down the Avenue glitters the bicycle, Black-stockinged legs under navy blue serge, Home and Colonial, Star, International, Balancing bicycle leant on the verge.
Tesco is the largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom.. As of November 2024, there are 17 supermarket chains currently operating in the United Kingdom. The food retail market has been dominated by the 'big four' supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons – who made up over three quarters of sector market share in 2010.