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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.
A slave responsible for lighting the oil lamps in front of Roman villas was called a lanternarius. However, denizens of Beijing could be the first to use "fixed position lighting" (unlike hand-carried torches and lamps), as far back as 500 B.C., utilizing hollow bamboo as a piping and naturally occurring gas vents to create a kind of street ...
Gamages was an extremely successful and profitable store. In 1968 a second store was opened in the Liberty Shopping Centre in Romford, Essex. This had a relatively short life as the whole company was taken over by Jeffrey Sterling's Sterling Guarantee Trust in 1970 [7] [8] and the Romford site was sold off to British Home Stores in 1971. [9]
Debenhams plc was a British department store chain operating in the United Kingdom, Denmark and the Republic of Ireland, and is still operating as a franchise in seven Middle East countries. [4]
2007 saw the appointment of Simon Emney as non-executive director followed in 2008 with their 90th store (Plymouth) and the acquisition of the worldwide rights to the 'Dorma' bed linen brand, for £5 million in July. [6] In 2009 Dunelm appointed Nick Wharton as a non-executive director and re-launched their online shopping website. [7]
Scotts of Stow launch a new range in their catalogues and online 4 times a year. On 14 December 2008 Scotts of Stow featured in a BBC News online article titled 'How Christmas works: Presents' [3] and outlined the steps involved in shipping up to three million items ordered by customers in the run up to Christmas from their head office in Swindon.