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Sitiawan (alternate spelling: Setiawan; origin: from Malay, a portmanteau of Setia Kawan, meaning "Loyal Friend") is a mukim and town in Manjung District, Perak, Malaysia . The region spans an area of 331.5 square kilometers (128.0 sq mi). In the year 2000, the population was 95,920 and by 2015, has grown to more than 150,000.
Founded in 1894 in Zlín, Moravia, by Tomáš Baťa, Bata opened a factory at East Tilbury in Essex with an attached workers town in 1932. Bata opened shops across the UK but grew largely after the Second World War when "British Bata" was born. [121] Bata started closing their UK retail operations in the 1980s. Bay Trading Company
The food retail market has been dominated by the 'big four' supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons – who made up over three quarters of sector market share in 2010. Tesco is the largest retailer in Great Britain, with a market share of 27.5% at the end of 2022. [ a][ 1] However, discounters Lidl and Aldi have grown rapidly. [ 1]
Bluewater Shopping Centre (commonly referred to as Bluewater) is an out-of-town shopping centre in Stone (postally Greenhithe ), Kent, England, just outside the M25 motorway ring, 17.8 miles (28.6 km) east south east of London 's centre. Opened on 16 March 1999 in a former chalk quarry after ten years of building works, the site (including car ...
Purchased by Debenhams in 1961. Guildford store closed in 1968 to coincide with the opening of a new Plummer Roddis in the town. Other stores closed in the 1970s with the Woking closing in 1983. 5 1961 [77] Goldbergs: Glasgow: 1908 Glasgow based group with stores in Scotland and one in England. 15 1990 Grant-Warden Walton on Thames
Website. www .johnlewis .com. John Lewis & Partners, commonly known as John Lewis, is a British chain of high-end department stores operating across the United Kingdom, with concessions in Ireland. It is part of the John Lewis Partnership, the UK's largest employee-owned business. [ 3] The brand was established in 1929 by Spedan Lewis, son of ...
Center Parcs UK and Ireland [2] [3] (formerly Center Parcs UK) is a short-break holiday company that operates six holiday villages in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, with each covering about 400 acres (1.6 km 2) of woodland.
Westfield Stratford City[ 5] is a shopping centre in Stratford, East London, which opened on 13 September 2011. [ 6][ 7] With a total retail floor area of 1,910,000 square feet (177,000 m 2 ), [ 3] it is the largest urban shopping centre in the UK by land area and the 4th-largest shopping centre in the UK by retail space, behind Westfield ...