2. Tesco was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen as a
group of market stalls. The Tesco name first
appeared in 1924, after Cohen purchased a
shipment of tea from T. E. Stockwell and combined
those initials with the first two letters of his
surname, and the first Tesco store opened in 1931
(or 1929) in Burnt Oak, Barnet. His business
expanded rapidly, and by 1939 he had over 100
Tesco stores across the country.
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4. Sainsbury's is the second largest chain of supermarkets in the United
Kingdom, with a 16.9% share of the supermarket sector in the United
Kingdom. Founded in 1869, by John James Sainsbury with a shop in
Drury Lane, London, the company became the largest grocery retailer
in 1922, was an early adopter of self-service retailing in the United
Kingdom, and had its heyday during the 1980s.
In 1995, Tesco overtook Sainsbury's to become the market leader, and
Asda became the second largest in 2003, demoting Sainsbury's to third
place for most of the subsequent period until January 2014, when
Sainsbury's regained second place.
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6. British Home Stores, commonly abbreviated to BHS and latterly
legally styled BHS Ltd, was a British department store chain with
branches mainly located in high streets or shopping centres,
primarily selling clothing and household items. It was founded in
1928 by a group of U.S. entrepreneurs.
British Home Stores was founded in 1928 by a group of U.S.
entrepreneurs[5] 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.
The first store opened in Brixton,[5] but by 1929 the price limit
had been lifted to five shillings to allow the business to offer more
goods.
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8. Marks and Spencer plc (also known as M&S) is a
major British multinational retailer
headquartered in the City of Westminster,
London. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange
and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
It specialises in the selling of clothing, home
products and luxury food products. M&S was
founded in 1884 by Michael Marks and Thomas
Spencer in Leeds.
The company also began to sell branded goods
like Kellogg's Corn Flakes in November 2008.
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10. Harrods is a luxury department store located on
Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London. It is
owned by the state of Qatar. The Harrods brand
also applies to other enterprises undertaken by
the Harrods group of companies including Harrods
Bank, Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air
Harrods, and to Harrods Buenos Aires, sold by
Harrods in 1922 and closed as of 2011, with plans
announced to reopen in 2013.
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12. Hamleys is the oldest and largest toy shop in the
world and one of the world's best-known retailers
of toys. Founded by William Hamley as "Noahs
Ark" in High Holborn, London, in 1760, it moved
to its current site on Regent Street in 1881.
This flagship store is set over seven floors, with
more than 50,000 toys on sale. It is considered
one of the city's prominent tourist attractions,
receiving around five million visitors each year.
The chain has ten other outlets in the United
Kingdom and also has more than 60 franchises
worldwide.
