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According to Mintel, at the time, Bay Trading had 2.3% Market share of the 19-35 ladies-wear market. In 1999, Bay Trading Company was acquired by Alexon Group plc having previously been a privately owned company. The business was relocated to Luton. At the beginning of 2009, Bay Trading had over 100+ High Street stores across the UK.
The Economic History of England (1931) pp 184–370 gives capsule histories of 10 major English trading companies: The Merchant Adventurers, the East India Company, the Eastland Company, the Russia Company, the Levant Company, the African Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, the French Company, the Spanish Company, and the South Sea Company.
1670: Hudson's Bay Company founded. 1670–79: English trading posts built on James Bay, including: 1668: Rupert House (southeast) 1673: Moose Factory (south) and Fort Albany (west). 1672: Father Charles Albanel travels from Quebec to Rupert House, but finds it deserted. 1674: Albanel again reaches Rupert House. He and Groseillers are sent to ...
Trade in GBP £ Millions Rank Country Imports to UK Exports from UK Total trade Trade balance -Total for non-EU: 345,533: 341,932: 642,726: 41,138 - European Union (Total) 341,002
In 1839, the Hudson's Bay Company were convinced of the need to dispense formal justice throughout Rupert's Land and established a court at the Red River Colony, in the "District of Assiniboia", south of Lake Winnipeg. A recorder and president of the court would act as legal organizer, adviser, magistrate, and councillor and be responsible for ...
Prior to the 2017 administration, the company also traded in Belgium. Trading in over 470 stores. In the UK, stores that carry the brands include Debenhams, John Lewis, House of Fraser, and Independent Department Stores (AIS), as well as some standalone brand stores. In Canada, the company mainly retails at Hudson's Bay.
Ships from England had to lay at the river mouth at Albany Roads. In 1683, Governor Henry Sergeant was directed to make it the primary trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company; it was the largest fort on the Bay at that point, with four bastions and forty-three guns. [3]:51 In 1684 a Monsieur Péré reached the fort from French Canada.
An Act for enabling Her Majesty to accept a Surrender upon Terms of the Lands, Privileges, and Rights of "The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" and for admitting the same into the Dominion of Canada. Citation: 31 & 32 Vict. c. 105: Territorial extent Rupert's Land, Canada: Dates; Royal assent: 31 July 1868