Both Stirling Cooper and Biba were retailers in which industry?
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Stirling Cooper Stirling Cooper was a London-based fashion wholesaler and retailer that, along with brands such as Biba, Quorum, Browns and Clobber, helped to redefine UK fashion in the late 1960s.
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Biba Biba was a London fashion store of the 1960s and 1970s. Biba was started and primarily run by the Polish-born Barbara Hulanicki with help of her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon.
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Bowler Offroad Bowler Manufacturing is the manufacturer of off-road racing vehicles based on the Land Rover Defender and Range Rover chassis. The company is located in the town of Belper, Derbyshire, in the United Kingdom.
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Wibra Wibra, short for Wierdsma & Braam, is a Dutch discount store-chain. It sells mostly textile and clothing, but also other products. Wibra operates over 280 stores with 2700 employees in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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National Cooperative Business Association Founded in 1916 as the Cooperative League of the United States of America, the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) is a United States membership organization for cooperatives, businesses that are jointly-owned and democratically-controlled.
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Kurt Geiger Kurt Geiger is an upmarket British footwear and accessories retailer. The Kurt Geiger headquarters is located on Britton Street, London.
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Tony Cooper (trade unionist) Derek Anthony Cooper (born 11 December 1943), known as Tony Cooper, is a former British trade union leader.
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Biecco Lawrie Biecco Lawrie Limited (BLL) is a Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (PSU) of the Government of India and was established in 1919 as British India Electric Construction Company Limited. BLL manufactures medium-voltage switchgears and have separate turnkey project and Electrical Repair division and is headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal.
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Celio (retailer) Celio (officially), or celio* (in advertising), is a French men's clothing retailer headquartered in Saint-Ouen, France. It caters primarily to the Continental European market, aiming to provide fashionable, affordable clothing. Most of Celio's stores are located in shopping centres, with a smaller percentage to be found in the shopping districts of cities and large suburbs. In 2005, the group employed over 1,800 people, with around 1,500 working in stores and the remainder at the group's headquarters and warehouses.
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C. &amp; J. Clark C. & J. Clark International Ltd, trading as Clarks, is a British-based, international shoe manufacturer and retailer. It was founded in 1825 by brothers Cyrus and James Clark in Street, Somerset, England – where it still has its headquarters. The company has over 1,000 branded stores and franchises around the world and also sells through third-party distribution.
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Bathstore Bathstore.com Ltd., trading as bathstore is a specialist bathroom retailer and is the largest in the United Kingdom. bathstore was originally started in the early 1990s by and with the idea to bring quality design led bathrooms into a wider retail arena. The company published one catalogue that contained all its products for the complete bathroom, with real retail prices.
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Evans Cycles Evans Cycles is a British cycle retailer. It was opened in central London by a London cyclist, Frederick Evans, who won an award from Britain's largest cycling club for the best cycling invention of 1925. He left his shop to be run by his manager and joined the Royal Air Force when war broke out in 1939. He died in a road accident in 1944 and the shop and the national business that developed from it has had several owners. It is owned now by ECI Partners.
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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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Bristol Paint Bristol Paint is an Australian decorating supplies company. It has 120 stores throughout the country, which employs 500 staff. Bristol Paints was purchased from Barloworld Coatings by PPG Industries in 2007.
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Grayson Thermal Systems Grayson Thermal Systems (part of the Grayson group) is a UK manufacturer based in Birmingham. The firm is based in Tyseley and design, manufacture, and supply cooling, heating, and air conditioning products for buses, coaches, and specialist vehicles.
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Sir Richard Cooper, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Powell Cooper (21 September 1847 – 30 July 1913) was a British industrial entrepreneur. He was a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and inherited the family business, an agricultural chemical manufacturing company. Following his success, he was made a baronet for services to industry.
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Laboratórios BASI Laboratórios BASI, usually known as BASI for short, is a Portuguese pharmaceutical company located in Coimbra. BASI produces and markets its own range of products in addition to marketing licensed products.
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Fushi Copperweld Fushi Copperweld, Inc. (Simplified Chinese: 傅氏科普威) is a Sino-American company based in Beijing, China. It was formed from the acquisition of an American wire company, Copperweld Bimetallics LLC, by Chinese manufacturer Fushi International in October 2007. The combined company is the largest manufacturer and supplier of bimetallic electrical conductor products in the world by volume. Its main products are wire, stranded electrical cable, and busbar made from its Copperweld brand copper-clad steel ("CCS") or copper-clad aluminium ("CCA"). In addition to its Chinese and American operations, Fushi Copperweld maintains a production facility in Telford, England, and a distribution hub in Liège, Belgium.
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Cooper Industries Cooper Industries was an independent American worldwide electrical products manufacturer with 2011 revenues of $5.4 billion. Founded in 1833, the company has seven operating divisions including Bussmann electrical and electronic fuses; Crouse-Hinds and CEAG explosion-proof electrical equipment; Halo and Metalux lighting fixtures; and Kyle and McGraw-Edison power systems products. With this broad range of products, Cooper is positioned for several long-term growth trends including the global infrastructure build-out, the need to improve the reliability and productivity of the electric grid, the demand for higher energy-efficient products and the need for improved electrical safety. In 2011 fifty-nine percent of total sales were to customers in the industrial and utility end-markets and forty percent of total sales were to customers outside the United States. Cooper has manufacturing facilities in 23 countries as of 2011.
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BFS Group BFS Group Limited is a foodservice wholesaler and distributor based in the United Kingdom. The company operates as two main divisions, Bidfood and Bidvest Logistics, as well as several specialised or local divisions and brands.
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Loaf (company) Loaf is a British company, which operates as a high street retailer. Charlie Marshall founded the retail brand, which was formerly known as The Sleep Room. Their showrooms are mainly focused around the London area.
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Siegel-Cooper Company The Siegel-Cooper Company was a department store that opened in Chicago in 1887 and expanded into New York City in 1896. At the time of its opening, the New York store was the largest in the world.