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Using an American business model as inspiration, they revolutionised the UK's DIY market. Texas specialised in higher-volume, lower-margin DIY products. However, in the 1980s the company was adversely affected by the recession and depressed housing market, and was acquired first by Ladbrokes and later by J Sainsbury plc , before merging with ...
Chin Peng [b] (21 October 1924 – 16 September 2013), born Ong Boon Hua, [c] OBE [a] was a Malayan communist politician, guerrilla leader, and revolutionary, who was the leader and commander of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) and the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA).
HMV was the second international music shop established in Singapore, after Tower Records, which later closed down. It operates one shop in Singapore, at Marina Square. The former shop at 313@Somerset (which replaced one formerly in The Heeren) closed in November 2013, [113] after closing the other at the CityLink underground mall. It is ...
Habitat (a trading name of Argos Limited) is a brand of household furnishings in the United Kingdom and the main homewares brand within the Sainsbury's group.. Founded in 1964 by Sir Terence Conran, it merged with a number of other retailers in the 1980s to create Storehouse plc, before the latter sold Habitat to the Ikano Group, owned by the Kamprad family, in 1992.
Opened Britain's first out of town supermarket in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire during 1964, GEM was an American department store retailer who ran the store under a concessions basis. A further store in Leeds was added in 1965, but the UK business was sold to Asda in 1966. [85] Goodfellows Hull and East Yorkshire based chain [86] [87] Grandways
Wilko.com Limited (trading as Wilko) is a retail chain owned by Norton Group Holdings (parent company of The Range) since 2023, prior to which it was owned by Wilko Limited, founded in the United Kingdom in 1930.
i12 Katong (formerly Katong Mall and Katong People's Complex) is a seven-storey shopping mall in the east of Singapore. It is located in the heart of Katong at the junction of East Coast Road and Joo Chiat Road. The mall was closed for renovations in March 2020 and had its soft reopening on 23 December 2021, [1] and its grand reopening on 23 ...
Currys Shop at 285–287 Belgrave gate in 1903 Henry Curry started to make bicycles in Painter Street Leicester in 1884, after leaving his previous employer N. Corah & Sons . Currys went public in 1927 when his four sons merged The Louth Bicycle Company, and the loose confederation of shops which the sons had run since their father's retirement ...