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Tessuti
Tessuti was a chain of designer stores in the United Kingdom, retailing men’s and women’s designer collections, including clothing, shoes and accessories for men and women. Tessuti was founded in 1985 by David Light. In December 2022, Frasers Group acquired Tessuti from JD Sports who had previously owned the company in full since 2016. As of 2019, Tessuti has thirty-eight stores, including doors in Liverpool, Chester, Leeds, Merryhill, Meadowhall Sheffield and Ipswich. The retailer also has two stores within Manchester's Trafford Centre and a Lowry Outlet store in Salford Quays. The multi-channel retailer also has stores inside Bluewater Shopping Centre, Metro Centre in Gateshead anBradford Broadway JD Sports PLC bought out menswear brand Cecil Gee in 2012, turning all five branches into Tessuti stores. Tessuti’s portfolio has also includes the Aspecto and Infinities retail businesses, bought by JD Sports PLC in 2015 and that form part of an ongoing re-brand underneath the ...
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JD Sports Fashion Plc
JD Sports Fashion plc, commonly known as JD Sports, JD or JD Group is a British multinational sports-fashion retail company based in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The Pentland Group owns 55% of the company. History The company was established by John Wardle and David Makin (hence the name ''JD''), trading from a single shop in Bury, Greater Manchester, in 1981. The company opened a store in the Arndale Centre in Manchester in 1983. Pentland Group bought Wardle's and Makin's shares for £44.6M in May 2005, so acquiring 45% of the business. Acquisitions Early acquisitions of stores included 209 stores with the acquisition of First Sport from Blacks Outdoor Retail, Blacks Leisure Group in December 2001 and 70 stores from the administrators of Allsports in October 2005. Subsequent acquisitions of businesses included: *Bank Stores, which sold fashion clothing, for around £19M in December 2007 ...
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Frasers Group
Frasers Group plc (formerly known as Sports Direct International plc) is a British retail, sport and intellectual property group, named after its ownership of the department store chain House of Fraser. The company is best known for trading predominantly under the Sports Direct brand which operates both physical outlets and online. Other retailers owned by the company include Frasers, Flannels (retail), Flannels, USC (clothing retailer), USC, Game (retailer), GAME, Evans Cycles, Jack Wills and bespoke tailors Gieves & Hawkes. The company owns several sporting goods brands, including Everlast (brand), Everlast, Lonsdale (clothing), Lonsdale, Slazenger and Karrimor. The group also expanded into operating fitness clubs, launching the Everlast Fitness Club chain in 2020. Since 2015, the group has been acquiring properties such as Shopping center, shopping centres and Outlet store, outlet parks. Established in 1982 by Mike Ashley (businessman), Mike Ashley, the company is the United ...
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Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ...
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Bury, Greater Manchester
Bury (, ) is a market town on the River Irwell in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. which had a population of 81,101 in 2021 while the wider borough had a population of 193,846. The town was originally part of the county of Lancashire but has been in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester since 1974. Bury emerged in the Industrial Revolution as a mill town manufacturing textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, textiles. The town is known for the open-air Bury Market and black pudding, the traditional local dish. Sir Robert Peel was born in the town. Peel was a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who founded the Metropolitan Police and the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. A Peel Memorial, Bury, memorial and Peel Monument, monument for Peel, the former stands outside Bury Parish church and the latter overlooks the borough on Ramsbottom, Holcombe Hill. The town is east of Bolton, south-west of Rochdale and north-wes ...
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of List of islands of the United Kingdom, the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities o ...
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Pound Sterling
Sterling (symbol: £; currency code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories. The pound is the main unit of sterling, and the word '' pound'' is also used to refer to the British currency generally, often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. Sterling is the world's oldest currency in continuous use since its inception. In 2022, it was the fourth-most-traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the United States dollar, the euro, and the Japanese yen. Together with those three currencies and the renminbi, it forms the basket of currencies that calculate the value of IMF special drawing rights. As of late 2022, sterling is also the fourth most-held reserve currency in global reserves. The Bank of England is the central bank for sterling, issuing its own banknotes and regulating issuance of banknotes by private banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Sterling banknotes issu ...
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Stone Island
Stone Island is an Italian luxury fashion house specialised in men's apparel, outerwear, and accessories headquartered in Ravarino, Emilia-Romagna. Its core branding includes a nautical star and compass, both of which is printed or overlaid atop a button-on cloth badge with green, yellow, and black detailing. Founded in 1982 by Massimo Osti, the brand became popular during the 1980s and 1990s in Europe and Japan, and during the 2010s, in the U.S. and Canada. Stone Island uses trademark reflective fabric, dyeing compounds, and surface treatments to produce garments. It was acquired by Italian fashion house Moncler in 2020 for €1.15 billion. It is a global staple of youth subculture as characterized by Italian ''Paninaro'', English football casuals, British, American, and Canadian hip hop culture, as well as world-wide streetwear. History Designer Massimo Osti founded Stone Island in 1982, in Ravarino, Italy. He founded the brand to complement his flagship label, C.P. Com ...
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Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani (; born 11 July 1934) is an Italian fashion designer and a billionaire. He first gained renown working for Cerruti 1881. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, which eventually expanded into music, sport, and luxury hotels. By 2001, Armani was acclaimed as the most successful designer of Italian origin, and is credited with pioneering red-carpet fashion. Early years Armani was born in the northern Italian town of Piacenza to Ugo Armani, an accountant for a transport company, and Maria Raimondi. He was raised with his older brother Sergio and younger sister Rosanna. While at secondary school at the Liceo scientifico, Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, Armani aspired to follow a career in medicine, particularly after reading A. J. Cronin's ''The Citadel (novel), The Citadel''. He enrolled in the department of medicine at the University of Milan, but in 1953 after attending for three years, he left and joined the Italian Army, army. Due to his medical ed ...
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30 Bridge Street, Chester
30 Bridge Street, Chester is a shop in Chester, Cheshire, England. It stands on a corner on the west side of the street and the south side of Commonhall Street, and contains a section of the Chester Rows. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. History The building was originally a town house, then a public house, and is now a shop. Plans for rebuilding it were prepared by the local architect John Douglas in 1873 but were never executed. More modest plans by the same architectural firm, then known as Douglas and Minshull, were submitted to Chester City Council in January 1899. These were amended and then approved in September of that year, and the rebuilding was carried out the following year. At that time the rebuilding was unique in central Chester in that the new building is no higher than the building it replaced. Before rebuilding it had been a public house named the Harp and Crown; after rebuilding it ...
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Listed Building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland. The classification schemes differ between England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (see sections below). The term has also been used in the Republic of Ireland, where buildings are protected under the Planning and Development Act 2000, although the statutory term in Ireland is "Record of Protected Structures, protected structure". A listed building may not be demolished, extended, or altered without permission from the local planning authority, which typically consults the relevant central government agency. In England and Wales, a national amenity society must be notified of any work to ...
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Mike Ashley (businessman)
Michael James Wallace Ashley (born 9 September 1964) is a British retail entrepreneur who is the founder and former chief executive of Frasers Group plc (formerly Sports Direct International). He owned Newcastle United F.C., Newcastle United Football Club between 2007 and 2021. According to the ''Sunday Times Rich List'' in 2025, Ashley was the 52nd richest person in the UK with an estimated net worth of £3.12 billion. In August 2021, Ashley announced that he intended to step down as chief executive of Frasers Group in May 2022, but would remain a director of the main board. Early life Ashley was born in Walsall in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands in 1964 and grew up in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, Burnham. His father was a manager at a food distribution depot. Ashley was educated at Burnham Grammar School in Burnham, Buckinghamshire and left school at 16 to become a county-level squash player. After an injury, he worked as a county-level squash coach. Career In 1982, at ...
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Flannels (retail)
The Flannels Group Limited, trading as Flannels, is a British retailer. The company currently has 50+ locations open in the United Kingdom. In 1976, Neil Prosser founded Flannels. He remained the managing director until the brand was acquired by Frasers Group (formerly Sports Direct International) in 2017. History Neil Prosser, founded Flannels in 1976 with a menswear store in Knutsford, Cheshire. Neil Prosser’s friendship with retailer Jim Gibson led to a joint venture in 1995 with womenswear and menswear stores under the name, Cruise Flannels, being opened in Nottingham and subsequently in Birmingham and Newcastle in 1996. In February 2000, Prosser and Gibson went their separate ways after their venture grew to 17 stores nationwide, and the Cruise Flannels shops in Birmingham and Nottingham were rebranded as Flannels sites. In 2012, Frasers Group Frasers Group plc (formerly known as Sports Direct International plc) is a British retail, sport and intellectual property ...
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