Woolworths Group
Woolworths Group was a listed British company that owned the High Street retail chain Woolworths. It also owned other companies such as the entertainment distributor Entertainment UK, and book and resource distributor Bertram Books. Originally a division of the American F. W. Woolworth Company until its sale in the early 1980s, it had more than 800 stores in the UK prior to closure. In February 2009, Shop Direct Group purchased the Woolworth’s trademark and internet address, which continued as a retail website until its closure in June 2015.
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Woolworths Group was a listed British company that owned the High Street retail chain Woolworths. It also owned other companies such as the entertainment distributor Entertainment UK, and book and resource distributor Bertram Books. Originally a division of the American F. W. Woolworth Company until its sale in the early 1980s, it had more than 800 stores in the UK prior to closure. In February 2009, Shop Direct Group purchased the Woolworth’s trademark and internet address, which continued as a retail website until its closure in June 2015. As of April 2017, after former director Tony Page expressed a wish to buy the Woolowss name from Shop Direct, there was talk of Woolworth’s making a comeback to British high streets. Frank Woolworth had ancestry in Woolley, Cambridgeshire and claimed he had traced his ancestry through the Founding Fathers of the district to a small \”farm in middle England\”. Woolworth met a young clerk, William Lawrence Stephenson, who was recommended to him by John Wanamaker. He was invited to London to meet Woolworth again, and was offered the job as director of the new company, which he accepted. After the idea for the creation of British stores, Frank Wool Worth had offered invitations to store managers in the United States to open up stores in Britain. He had only received offers to take positions at the time of his illness in March 1909 from Fred Woolworth of the Sixth Avenue and Samuel Balfour of the 14th Street stores in New York City.
Woolworth considered several locations for the United Kingdom for several years before going ahead with the decision to launch the stores in several locations by the end of the year. He died in Liverpool on 5 November 1909, at the age of 83. He is buried in Liverpool. The chain was the UK’s largest buyer of Candyking \”pick ‘n’ mix\” sweets. It was sometimes referred to as \”Woolies\” by the UK media, the general public, and occasionally in its own television commercials. The British company also owned and ran F. W. Woolworth Ireland until 1984 and WoolworthS until 2003. It went into administration on 27 January 2009, and it was officially dissolved on 13 October 2015. The company was previously known as the F. W. Woolsworth Company, which had been founded in Pennsylvania, F.W. Wooliams & Co. Ltd was founded in 1890. It is now known as Woolworth Group plc, which has been owned by Shop Direct since February 2009. The group was once one of the biggest retailers in Britain, with more than 1,000 stores across the UK, Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. It had its own Ladybird children’s clothing range, Chad Valley toys, and WorthIt! value range. It has its own website, which continues to be operated by a subsidiary of Shop Direct called Woolworth & Co, which is part of the Shop Direct group.
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