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James Kemsey "JK" Wilkinson (6 December 1906 – 18 December 1997) was an English businessman, the founder of the high street chain Wilko. In 2014, it was reported that Wilko had 372 stores, 23,000 employees and annual revenues of £1.5 billion. [2] Wilko collapsed into administration, on 10 August 2023. [3]
Wilko.com Limited (trading as Wilko) is a retail chain owned by Norton Group Holdings (parent company of The Range) since 2023, prior to which it was owned by Wilko Limited, founded in the United Kingdom in 1930. The retail chain Wilko Limited[ 1] (formerly Wilkinson Cash Stores Limited, [citation needed] Wilkinson Hardware Stores Limited, [ 2 ...
New Look is a British global fashion retailer with a chain of high street shops. It was founded in 1969. The chain sells womenswear, menswear, and clothing for teens. New Look was owned by private equity groups Apax Partners and Permira, and founder Tom Singh, [4] until May 2015 when it was acquired by Brait SE (SA) for £780 million.
Since 1993 the business has the 'Designers at Debenhams' brand, which sees designer clothing at High Street prices, with designers including Jasper Conran, John Rocha, Betty Jackson Black, Butterfly by Matthew Williamson, H! by Henry Holland, Star by Julien Macdonald, Frost French, Erickson Beamon, Eric Van Peterson, Janet Reger, Pip Hackett ...
With the financial troubles suffered by the Storehouse group in the late 1980s, Richard Shops began to lose direction at a time when the high street was becoming a more competitive place for fashion retailers. Since 1972 the men's clothing retailer Burton had been expanding its chain of women's fashion stores under the TopShop brand, and in ...
Laura Ashley shop, Hong Kong. Laura Ashley ( LSE : ALY) is a British textile design company. It was founded by Bernard Ashley and his wife Laura Ashley in 1953 in London, and first became known for creating Victorian style head scarves, one of which was worn by Audrey Hepburn in the film Roman Holiday. The company relocated to Wales in 1961 ...
Years active. 1960–2005. Title. Former co-owner & former chairman of retailer Wilko. Board member of. Wilko. Parent. James Kemsey Wilkinson. Anthony Harwick Wilkinson (born April 1937) is a British businessman, who was the co-owner and former chairman of the British high street chain Wilko .
Look. (UK magazine) Print and digital editions. Look was a glossy high street fashion and celebrity weekly magazine for young women that ran for eleven years (2007–2018). It was published by TI Media, and edited by Gilly Ferguson. The magazine focused on fashion, high street shopping advice, celebrity style and news, and real-life stories.