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Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.
Business went into administration in 2006. Some shops became part of Store Twenty One. Shop Direct Group: 10 Discounter of surplus stock from within the Shop Direct family of companies Store Twenty One: 2007 2017 Grabal Alok 200 Discount clothing and homewares, created from the ashes of QS Stores and Bewise Thing - Me - Bobs 2022
Wal-Mart through subsidiary Corinth Services Ltd. 577. Men's, children's and ladies' clothing and footwear. Founded as "ASDA Queens" from the merger of Associated Dairies and the Asquith family owned Queens Supermarket. George (named after designer George Davies) clothing was launched in 1989 replacing the Asdale and Asda ranges.
EssilorLuxottica. EssilorLuxottica SA is an Italian-French vertically integrated multinational corporation based in Paris and founded on 1 October 2018 from the merger of the Italian Luxottica with the French Essilor. The eyewear -focused group designs, produces and markets ophthalmic lenses, optical equipment, prescription glasses and sunglasses .
This is a list of department stores of the United Kingdom. In the case of department store groups, the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. The list is broken into "currently trading" (A–Z); "defunct groups" and "defunct" (A–Z).
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Top left: Robert Walpole is considered the first prime minister of Great Britain. Top right: William Pitt The Younger was the youngest prime minister, to assume office at 24 and the last PM of Great Britain. Mid left: Winston Churchill was prime minister during much of World War II. Mid right: Margaret Thatcher was the first female prime minister.
Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and eyeglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Made popular in the 1950s and 1960s by music and film icons such as Buddy Holly , Roy Orbison and James Dean , Wayfarers almost became discontinued in the 1970s, before a major resurgence was created in the 1980s through massive product placements .