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Littlewoods was a retail and football betting company founded in Liverpool, England, by John Moores in 1923. [1] By the 1980s, it had grown to become the largest private company in Europe but subsequently declined in the face of increased competition from rivals and the Internet.
The original Littlewoods brand was a shopping catalogue and retail business headquartered in Liverpool, and was bought by the Barclay brothers in 2002. [1] The website launched in the 1990s and in 2005, the physical stores were sold, leaving Littlewoods as a pure play online retailer.
A former Littlewoods branch in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The Very Group traces its roots to a variety of independent mail order and retail companies in northern England, particularly Littlewoods, the pools and mail order business founded by John Moores, as well as the Manchester-based home shopping business of Great Universal Stores.
Sir John Moores CBE (25 January 1896 – 25 September 1993) [1] was an English businessman, telegraphist, football club owner, politician and philanthropist, most famous for the founding of the now defunct Littlewoods retail and football pools company.
The original Littlewoods brand was a shopping catalogue and retail business headquartered in Liverpool, and was bought by the Barclay brothers in 2002. [1] In 2009, Littlewoods Direct was rebranded as Very.co.uk, shifting its focus to online retailing and a younger market. [2] [3] The website launched officially in July 2009.
Little Woods is a 2018 crime drama film, written and directed by Nia DaCosta in her feature directorial debut. The film stars Tessa Thompson, Lily James, Luke Kirby, James Badge Dale and Lance Reddick.
Vernons' Pools was founded in 1925, also in Liverpool, and Zetters was founded 1933 in London. In 1934, the Football Pool Promoters' Association was formed: besides Littlewoods, Vernons and Zetters, its members were the other large pools companies including Cope's Pools (based in London), W.S. Murphy (Edinburgh) and Western Pools (Newport). [10]
John Moores was born at Beech Lawn Nursing Home, Waterloo, Merseyside on 22 November 1928. He joined Littlewoods in 1946. He became a director of the organisation in 1950 and was Chair of the Littlewoods Equal Opportunities strategy committee from the mid 1960s until October 1996 after wanting to promote equal opportunities in the firm following his return from the United States after a two ...