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WH Smith PLC, trading as WHSmith (also written WH Smith, and known colloquially as Smith's and formerly as W. H. Smith & Son), is a British retailer, with headquarters in Swindon, England, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionery.
The company employs 230 people in the area, and is an official UK distributor of Durex products. In 2009–10 Lovehoney had a turnover of £10.4 million and profits of £1.5 million [3] In 2010-11 it had a turnover of £13.4 million, and in 2011-12 it had a turnover of £16 million. In 2020-21, the turnover was 87.3 million.
Boohoo relaunched the website as Debenhams.com in April that year. On 5 May 2021, the liquidator announced that all remaining UK stores would close on 15 May 2021, marking the end of Debenhams as a department store retailer in the UK after 243 years. [98]
John Barbour, a native of Galloway, Scotland, founded J. Barbour and Sons Ltd in South Shields, England, in 1894 as an importer of oil-cloth. [3] [1] John's grandson Duncan, a keen motorcyclist, would also take the company in that direction during his tenure as Barbour became the originator of waxed cotton motorcycling suits and jackets.
Bones UK (stylised as BONES UK) is a rock band from Camden Town, London [1] consisting of lead vocalist / rhythm guitarist Rosie Bones, lead guitarist Carmen Vandenberg, and drummer Heavy. [ clarification needed ]
The company reopened its store in Paris on 24 November 2011, following the launch of a new French website on 11 October 2011. [123] In the Philippines, the Rustans Group of Companies serves as the official franchise partner [124] and operates a total of 18 M&S shops, the largest of which is located in Greenbelt Mall.
Hobbs is a women’s clothing, footwear and accessories retailer based in London, UK.It was founded in Hampstead in 1981 [1] and began as a shoe retailer. Hobbs now has stores across the United Kingdom, concession stores in the United States [citation needed] and Germany and franchise stores in Dubai and Sweden. [2]
Boden is a British clothing retailer founded by Johnnie Boden in 1991. It started as a mail-order business. [1] In 2022 Boden reported annual sales of £351m, predominantly in the US, the UK and Germany, 1.8m customers and 1,034 employees. [2]