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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
In 1982 the English subsidiary Woolworths Ltd including B&Q was acquired by Paternoster which became Kingfisher plc and remains the owner of B&Q. In 2022 its revenue was £3.8 billion, with a net income of £603 million. Babcock International Group plc — is a defence and engineering company headquartered in London.
The Woolworths store chain was originally a division of the American F. W. Woolworth Company until its sale in the early 1980s, [2] [3] it had more than 800 stores in the UK prior to closure. Woolworths sold many goods and had its own Ladybird children's clothing range, [ 4 ] WorthIt! value range and Chad Valley toys. [ 5 ]
J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, is a British supermarket and the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. [2]Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company was the largest UK retailer of groceries for most of the 20th century.
The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and ...
19 December 1974: Oxford Street bombing: The IRA carried out a bomb attack on Selfridge's department store in Oxford Street, London. A time bomb had been placed in a car which was then parked outside the store. Three telephone warnings were given and the area was evacuated. The explosion was later estimated to have caused £1.5 million worth of ...