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Topshop's former flagship shop in Oxford Street, London. Topshop started as a brand extension of the department store Peter Robinson in the 1960s and originally sold fashion by young British designers, such as Mary Quant and Stirling Cooper. Peter Robinson was a women's fashion chain that had been acquired by Burton in 1946. [6]
In 1844, the Committee for Promoting the Establishment of Baths and Wash-Houses for the Labouring Classes was formed with the Bishop of London as president. [8] The Bishop petitioned for a bill for the regulation of public baths and in 1846 Sir George Gray introduced the bill which became the Public Baths and Wash-houses Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 74).
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.
Armitage Shanks is a British manufacturer of bathroom fixtures and plumbing supplies, now part of the group Ideal Standard.. In 2004, Armitage Shanks had eight factories in the United Kingdom, the largest in Armitage, Staffordshire.
He turned it into a retail empire that dominated the British high street, with 2,800 stores and employing more than 60,000 people. With brands including Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, Debenhams, Principles, Racing Green and Evans, it was worth £1.8bn when Halpern was ousted by the board in 1991.
Oddbins is an off-licence retail chain in the United Kingdom, established in 1963 by Ahmed Pochee.. The chain currently operates 46 branches with 30 in London, nine in Scotland and across the rest of the UK, under the leadership of managing director Ayo Akintola.
Jane Elizabeth Shepherdson [1] CBE (born 23 August 1961 [2] in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire) is an English businesswoman. As of 2016 she was the chief executive of UK clothing brand Whistles, and had been the brand director for high-street women's wear store TopShop.
B&Q developed two new trading formats: HomeCentres, retailing furniture, bathrooms, soft furniture, flooring and lighting; and AutoCentres, being similar to a Halfords, the first launch taking place at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, at the end of the 1980s. The concept being to have a HomeCentre, AutoCentre and DIY Superstore with one communal car park.