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British Home Stores was founded in 1928 by a group of U.S. entrepreneurs who wanted to follow the successful model set by Woolworths. They did not want go into direct competition with Woolworths, so set their highest price at a shilling.
Jun 2, 2016 · 2 June 2016. Getty Images. British Homes Stores first opened for business in Brixton, south London in 1928. Department store BHS is to be wound down, meaning the end of the road for the...
Apr 26, 2016 · 1985 Starts to franchise the brand overseas. 1986 Merges with Habitat and Mothercare to form Storehouse plc. 2000 Sir Philip Green buys British Home Stores for £200m from the Storehouse Group and ...
Apr 10, 2016 · Croydon. British Home Stores, commonly known as ‘BHS’, was registered as a private company in London in April 1928. The exact circumstances of its foundation remain mysterious, as do the personalities involved, but the intention from the outset seems to have been to develop a chain of variety stores in major shopping centres.
The British timber trade was importation of timber from the Baltic, and later North America, by the British. During the Middle Ages and Stuart period , Great Britain had large domestic supplies of timber, especially valuable were the famous British oaks .
Apr 16, 2016 · The first Green Shops in the UK opened in Hounslow and East Ham, followed by Wood Green and Bedford. By end of 1943, all but two Green Shops had been rebranded. Then, in 1944, BHS took over Hills & Steele Ltd, a chain store subsidiary of Great Universal Stores Ltd., known until 1938 as New Universal Stores.
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Apr 21, 2016 · In 1960 a Times columnist maintained that: ‘British Home Stores . . . has done more for the garment trade in Hongkong than any other single buyer’. By 1965 BHS had 87 stores (compared with Woolworth’s 1120, Marks & Spencer’s 240 and Littlewoods’ 70).
