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2. Argos (retailer) - Wikipedia

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   Number of employees. 45,874 (2016) [3] Parent. Sainsbury's. Website. argos.co.uk. Argos Limited is a British catalogue retailer operating in the United Kingdom and formerly in Ireland, acquired by Sainsbury's supermarket chain in 2016. It was established in November 1972 and is named after the Greek city of Argos.

3. Index (retailer) - Wikipedia

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   Index was a catalogue retailer in the United Kingdom, that was owned by Littlewoods from 1985 until 2005. Many Index stores were attached to Littlewoods stores. It was a well known retailer in the 1980s and the 1990s, but sales declined in the noughties and it lost many customers to its main rival, Argos.

4. The Very Group - Wikipedia

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   The Very Group Limited. The Very Group Limited [1] is a multi-brand online retailer and financial services provider in the United Kingdom and Ireland. [2] Its head offices are based in the Speke area of the city of Liverpool, England. The brand was established in November 2005 as a result of the merger of the former Littlewoods and Shop Direct ...

5. GUS (retailer) - Wikipedia

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   This included the iconic Great Universal Stores catalogue, from which the company took its name, and completed the departure of GUS from its original business areas. Around the same time, the Barclays announced the closure of the Littlewoods Index catalogue showroom chain, the principal rival to Argos in the UK, selling around 35 stores to Argos.

6. Catalog merchant - Wikipedia

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   A catalog merchant ( catalogue merchant in Commonwealth English) is a form of retailing. The typical merchant sells a wide variety of household and personal products, with many emphasizing jewelry. Unlike a self-serve retail store, most of the items are not displayed; customers select the products from printed catalogs in the store and fill out ...

7. Richard Tompkins - Wikipedia

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   1945–1992. Known for. Founder of Green Shield Stamps and Argos. Granville Richard Francis Tompkins CBE (15 May 1918 – 6 December 1992) was a British print, advertising and retail entrepreneur, best known for founding the Green Shield Stamps company, as well as the Argos chain of catalogue stores which became one of the largest retailers in ...