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- Beatties was a small British department store group located primarily in the Midlands of England. In 2005, when it had 12 stores, the group was acquired by House of Fraser.
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Beatties was a small British department store group located primarily in the Midlands of England. In 2005, when it had 12 stores, the group was acquired by House of Fraser . On 14 January 2006, the Birmingham store closed, because a similar House of Fraser store, Rackhams , was not far away.
The business went from strength to strength. In 1894 there were 40 members of staff and a turnover of £30,000, which increased to £44,000 by the end of the century. Things went badly wrong in early 1896 when the store was badly damaged after a fire, which caused over £8,000 worth of damage.
In the 1960s the company began to open branch stores, the first being at Birkenhead in 1963, followed by a store in Solihull in 1966 and another in Dudley in 1969. Others followed and by 2005 there were eleven in total:
On December 1st, 1936, numbers 7 to 10 Darlington Street were acquired and on September 16th, 1937 work started on Beatties garage in Townwell Fold. The land on the corner of Victoria Street and Darlington Street was acquired from Wolverhampton Council by gent's outfitters, Montague Burton.
Feb 6, 2024 · But that was before it all started to go wrong in the late 2000s after ambitious expansion plans ran into trouble and the Beatties chain of department stores were swallowed up by House of Fraser. The company's landmark store site on the corner of Victoria Street and Darlington Street was sold in a so-called sale-and-leaseback deal worth £47 million in 2006.
United Kingdom. Products. Scale models. Toys. Number of employees. 250 (at the time of 26 stores) Parent. ERA Group. Beatties of London (commonly known as Beatties) was a model retail company of the United Kingdom, not to be confused with the Beatties department store group.
Jun 7, 2018 · Under the terms of the closure plan that will see 31 of its 59 stores closed, that lease will end after just 13 years. The James Beattie store in 1902 - one of the earliest pictures taken in...
