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Divisions and namesakes of the American F. W. Woolworth Company, and divisions of Woolworths Group (Australia). Similar namesake companies in South Africa and Australia were legally named after the Woolworth company as permitted by the trademark laws of the period, but never had any financial connection to the original F. W. Woolworth Company.
Woolworths Variety – The name given to the company's traditional variety stores to differentiate them from the company's food-retailing interests, when the decision was made to use the original Woolworths name for the company's food stores and supermarkets instead of its variety stores. These variety stores were progressively divested as ...
Woolworths NZ is the trading name in New Zealand. Woolworths also operated supermarket brands Foodtown and Woolworths until November 2011, which were rebranded as Countdown. On 18 July 2023, it was announced by Woolworths Group that Countdown will be rebranded Woolworths from early 2024. [49]
Logo used until 2017. Woolworths Group Limited is an Australian multinational retail and finance company, primarily known for the operation of its retail chain Woolworths Supermarkets across Australia, Woolworths (previously known as Countdown) in New Zealand and its discount department store Big W.
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.
Big W (stylised as BIG W) is an Australian chain of discount department stores, which was founded in regional New South Wales in 1964. The company is a division of the Woolworths Group and as of 2024 operated 179 stores, [1] with around 18,000 employees across mainland Australia and Tasmania.
The Woolworths chain was originally a division of the American F. W. Woolworth Company until its sale in the early 1980s, [2] [3] it had more than 800 shops in the UK prior to closure. Woolworths sold many goods and had its own Ladybird children's clothing range, [4] WorthIt! value range and Chad Valley toys. [5]
The first Woolworths store, in the stately dining room of The Royal Hotel, Cape Town. Braai-related display inside a Woolworths store in The Constantia Village shopping center, in Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa. The choice of name came from Sonnenberg's friendship with a London shipper and financier, Percy (P.R.) Lewis.