John Timpson is the chairman and owner of a multinational retailer that has how many outlets in the United Kingdom and Ireland ?
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John Timpson (businessman) Sir William John Anthony Timpson CBE (born 1943) is a British businessman, the chairman and owner of Timpson, a UK shoe repair chain with 1325 shops. He has a weekly management column in The Daily Telegraph and has written several books about his management style.
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Timpson (retailer) Timpson is a British multinational retailer specialising in shoe repairs, key cutting and engraving, as well as dry cleaning & photo processing. The company also offers mobile phone repairs, jewellery and watch repair, custom-made house signs. It is based in Wythenshawe, Manchester, and currently has over 1325 outlets in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In January 2014, Timpson purchased the photographic services franchise, Snappy Snaps, increasing its store count by 118.
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List of supermarket chains in the United Kingdom This is a list of supermarket chains in the United Kingdom. Grocery sales in the UK are dominated by Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons. These, dubbed the 'big four', had a combined market share of 73.2% of the UK grocery market in the 12 weeks ending 4 January 2015, a decline from 74.1% in 2007. Discounters Aldi and Lidl have seen a combined rise in market share from 4.8% to 8.3% over that time, while upscale grocer Waitrose's share rose from 3.9% to 5.1%
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Selfridges Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of high end department stores in the United Kingdom, operated by Selfridges Retail Limited. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge. The flagship store on London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and opened 15 March 1909. Other Selfridges stores opened in the Trafford Centre (1998) and Exchange Square (2002) in Manchester, and in the Bullring in Birmingham (2003).
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Esprit Holdings Esprit Holdings Limited () is a publicly owned manufacturer of clothing, footwear, accessories, jewellery and housewares under the Esprit label. The company is headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and Ratingen (near Düsseldorf), Germany. In the 2007–2008 business year, Esprit generated a worldwide sales of around €3.25 billion (as of 30 June 2008). Esprit operates more than 900 retail stores worldwide and distributes products to more than 8,500 wholesale locations around the globe. Esprit has more than 1.1 million square meters of retail space in 40 countries.
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Laura Ashley plc Laura Ashley plc () is a Welsh textile design company now controlled by the MUI Group of Malaysia. It was founded by Bernard Ashley, an engineer, and his wife Laura Ashley in 1953 then grew over the next 20 years to become an international retail chain. Sales totalled over £276 million in 2000. Its products can be described as quintessentially English.
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Fat Face Fat Face is a lifestyle clothing and accessories retailer, based in the UK. It was founded in 1988 by Tim Slade and Jules Leaver as a business selling T-shirts at ski resorts. The company opened its first retail shop in 1993; as of 2014 there were 209 Fat Face stores in the UK and Ireland.
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Just Jeans Just Jeans is an Australian clothing chain store, owned and operated by the Just Group. Including Just Jeans, The Just Group owns and operates a total of seven retail brands. Other Just Group brands include Jay Jays, Jacqui E, Portmans, Dotti, Peter Alexander, and Smiggle. The group currently has over 950 stores throughout Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Its main rival is Jeanswest, because they produce a similar style of denim outfits and both are based and operate mainly in Australia.
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Ann Summers Ann Summers is a British multinational retailer company specialising in sex toys and lingerie, with over 140 high street stores in the UK, Ireland, and the Channel Islands. In 2000, Ann Summers acquired the Knickerbox brand, a label with an emphasis on more comfortable and feminine underwear, while the Ann Summers-labelled products tend to be more erotic in style. The chain had an annual turnover of £117.3 million in 2007-2008.
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REWE REWE (] ) is a supermarket chain in Germany and part of the Cologne-based REWE Group. REWE has more than 15,000 stores and 211,000 employees worldwide. As of 2015 they have publicised plans for investing more heavily in their online presence.
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Stewarts Supermarket Limited Stewarts Supermarket Limited (traded as Stewarts and Crazy Prices) was a supermarket chain in Northern Ireland. The chain was purchased by Tesco in 1997.
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Dixons (retailer) Dixons was an online retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was owned by Dixons Retail plc.
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Brake Bros Brakes (also Brake Bros Ltd) is a distribution company supplying food, drink and other products mainly to the catering (or 'foodservice') industry in the UK, Ireland, France and Sweden through more than 70 distribution centers. It provides delivered wholesale and contract logistical services. The company was created in 1958 and headquartered in Ashford, United Kingdom. Brake Bros Limited has been a subsidiary of Sysco Corporation since July 5, 2016 when the latter bought it for $3.1bn.
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John West Foods John West Foods is a United Kingdom-based seafood marketing company established in 1857, and currently owned by Thai Union Group of Thailand. They are known as a producer of canned salmon and tuna, and also supply mackerel, sardine, herring, brisling, anchovies and shellfish.
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CeX (company) CeX Ltd. is a second hand goods chain based in the United Kingdom specialising in technology, computing and video games. It was established in 1992 in London, and has since grown to have more than 350 stores in the UK and over 100 abroad.
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Tata Global Beverages Tata Global Beverages Limited (formerly Tata Tea Limited) is an Indian multinational non-alcoholic beverages company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and a subsidiary of the Tata Group. It is the world's second-largest manufacturer and distributor of tea and a major producer of coffee.
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Reckitt Benckiser Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (RB) (   ) is a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, England. It is a producer of health, hygiene and home products. It was formed in 1999 by the merger of the UK-based Reckitt & Colman plc and the Netherlands-based Benckiser NV.
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Timsons Timsons Ltd is a family-owned company which manufactures bespoke book and flexible packaging printing presses. Timsons was founded in 1896 by Arthur Richardson Timson and employs over 200 people at its Kettering, UK headquarters. A sales subsidiary in Milan covers southern Europe, and a sales and service operation for the Americas is based in Schaumburg, Illinois.
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Daily Mail and General Trust Daily Mail and General Trust plc is a British media company, the owner of The "Daily Mail" and several other titles. The company manages a multinational portfolio of companies, with total revenues of almost £2 billion, that provide a diverse range of businesses and consumers with information, analysis, insight, news and entertainment. The company operates in over 40 countries through its subsidiaries RMS, dmg information, dmg events, Euromoney Institutional Investor, dmg media and JVs and Associates. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, is the chairman and controlling shareholder of the company. The head office is located in Northcliffe House in Kensington, London.
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Lipton Lipton is a brand of tea, owned by the company Unilever. Lipton was also a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom before it was sold off to Argyll Foods, to allow the company to focus solely on tea. The company is named after its founder Thomas Lipton. The Lipton ready-to-drink beverages are sold by Pepsi Lipton International, a company jointly owned by Unilever and PepsiCo.
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Conforama Conforama is Europe's second largest home furnishings retail chain with over 200 stores in France, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Luxembourg, Italy and Croatia.
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Smyths Smyths Toys Superstores is an Irish chain provider of children's toys and entertainment products with over 110 stores throughout Ireland and the UK.