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RetailMeNot.com, a digital coupon site in the United States [3] eConversions, the parent company of Gutschein-Codes.de in Germany and VoucherCodes, a voucher code site in the United Kingdom [19] [20] Ma-Reduc.com and Poulpeo.com, digital coupon and cash back sites in France [21] ZenDeals.com, a North American coupon site (October 9, 2013) [22]
Sir Brian Souter (born 5 May 1954) is a Scottish businessman. With his sister, Dame Ann Gloag, he founded the Stagecoach Group of bus and rail operators. He also founded the bus and coach operator Megabus, the train operating company South West Trains, his investments company Souter Holdings Ltd, and the Souter Charitable Trust.
In 1816, James Finlay & Co. sent out a shipment of goods and was the first merchant house in Scotland to open up direct connection with India, opening up a branch in Bombay. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] By the time of Kirkman's death in 1842, James Finlay & Co. was a leading Scottish manufacturer, trading with America, and across Europe and Asia.
The company was founded by Hugh Fraser and James Arthur in 1849 as a small drapery shop on the corner of Argyle Street and Buchanan Street in Glasgow, Scotland trading as Arthur and Fraser. [4] Hugh Fraser had been apprenticed to Stewart & McDonald Ltd, a Glasgow drapery warehouse where he eventually rose to the position of warehouse manager.
[20] [21] The sale was completed on 2 March 2009, costing £1.57 bn. [20] The conversion and rebranding of Somerfield stores into Coop stores took just over two years and was completed by summer 2011. [22] In 2008, the group bought ten convenience stores trading as Bell's and Jackson's in the north and east of England from Sainsbury's. [23]
The National describes itself as "the newspaper that supports an independent Scotland", and has a masthead depicting a map of Scotland. [citation needed] This had to be hastily redesigned for the second issue after it was pointed out that Shetland was missing from the map on the first edition. [4] [5]
A year after Welwyn Garden City was founded, Welwyn Stores opened there as an all-encompassing department store and social hub owned by the Welwyn Garden City Company, the business formed by Ebenezer Howard, the founder of the garden city movement.
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (Scottish Gaelic: Banca Rìoghail na h-Alba) [2] is a major retail and commercial bank in Scotland.It is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of NatWest Group, together with NatWest (in England and Wales) and Ulster Bank.