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2. Argos (retailer) - Wikipedia

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   Website. argos .co .uk. Argos Limited is a British catalogue retailer operating in the United Kingdom and formerly in Ireland, acquired by Sainsbury's supermarket chain in 2016. It was established in November 1972 and is named after the Greek city of Argos.

3. Index (retailer) - Wikipedia

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   Index was a catalogue retailer in the United Kingdom, that was owned by Littlewoods from 1985 until 2005. Many Index stores were attached to Littlewoods stores. It was a well known retailer in the 1980s and the 1990s, but sales declined in the noughties and it lost many customers to its main rival, Argos.

4. The Very Group - Wikipedia

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   The Very Group Limited. The Very Group Limited[ 1] is a multi-brand online retailer and financial services provider in the United Kingdom and Ireland. [ 2] Its head offices are based in the Speke area of the city of Liverpool, England. The brand was established in November 2005 as a result of the merger of the former Littlewoods and Shop Direct ...

5. GUS (retailer) - Wikipedia

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   The company acquired Argos in 1998 in a hostile takeover bid [127] [19] and the UK's second largest online retailer at the time, Jungle.com, in 2000 for £37 million. [128] In 2001 the company changed its name to GUS plc using the identifier GUS on the London Stock Exchange.

6. Habitat (retailer) - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Richard Tompkins - Wikipedia

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   1945–1992. Known for. Founder of Green Shield Stamps and Argos. Granville Richard Francis Tompkins CBE (15 May 1918 – 6 December 1992) was a British print, advertising and retail entrepreneur, best known for founding the Green Shield Stamps company, as well as the Argos chain of catalogue stores which became one of the largest retailers in ...

8. Green Shield Stamps - Wikipedia

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   Green Shield Trading Stamp Company. Green Shield Stamps was a British sales promotion scheme that rewarded shoppers with stamps that could be used to buy gifts from a catalogue or from any affiliated retailer. The scheme was introduced in 1958 by Richard Tompkins, who had noticed the success of the long-established Sperry & Hutchinson Green ...

9. Catalog merchant - Wikipedia

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   A catalog merchant ( catalogue merchant in Commonwealth English) is a form of retailing. The typical merchant sells a wide variety of household and personal products, with many emphasizing jewelry. Unlike a self-serve retail store, most of the items are not displayed; customers select the products from printed catalogs in the store and fill out ...