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Ladies' clothing and accessories company based in West Reading, specializing in luxury ladies' wear and accessories. Wyles Brothers. Founded in Derby as a footwear manufacturer, they moved into retail and had 50 shops before they were bought by G B Britton & Sons, manufacturers of TUF shoes in 1961.[ 507 ] Xception.
Jewellery. Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example.
Clothing in ancient Greece refers to clothing starting from the Aegean bronze age (3000 BCE) to the Hellenistic period (31 BCE). [1] Clothing in ancient Greece included a wide variety of styles but primarily consisted of the chiton, peplos, himation, and chlamys. [2] Ancient Greek civilians typically wore two pieces of clothing draped about the ...
Kotsovolos (Greek: Κωτσόβολος) is one of the leading electrical and electronics retailers in Greece. It started as a small neighborhood store in downtown Athens in 1950 [ 2 ] and today has a network of over 90 stores, [ 2 ] in Greece and Cyprus, both corporate and franchise, as well as two online stores, kotsovolos.gr and kotsovolos.cy.
The store occupies a 5-acre (20,000 m 2) site and has over one million square feet (90,000 m 2) of selling space in over 330 departments making it the biggest department store in Europe. The UK's second-biggest shop, Selfridges, Oxford Street, is a little over half the size with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m 2) of selling space. [39]
Hellenic Distributions SA. Website. www.dutyfreeshops.gr. Hellenic Duty Free Shops SA, founded in 1979, is a Greek company in the travel retail industry. The company holds the exclusive right to the retail sale of duty-free goods in Greece. It has a network in Greece, composed of 97 shops at 45 points (22 airports, 11 border checkpoints, and 12 ...
The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the (landed) gentry.The nobility of its four constituent home nations has played a major role in shaping the history of the country, although the hereditary peerage now retain only the rights to stand for election to the House of Lords, dining rights there, position in the formal order of precedence, the right to certain titles, and the right ...
Sock Shop. SOCKSHOP is a British -based specialist retailer of socks and hosiery. Founded in 1983 by Sophie Mirman and Richard P. Ross, SOCKSHOP became part of the Ruia Group in 2006, and is now based mainly online, with stores in the Manchester Arndale and The Lowry Outlet, as well as concessions across the United Kingdom.