Jane Norman was a United Kingdom-based women's clothing retailer, owned by

Edinburgh Woollen Mill Purepay Retail Limited, trading as The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, is a British clothing retailer founded in 1946 by Drew Stevenson. It is headquartered in Carlisle, England. In November 2002, Philip Day led a management buy-out of the retailer. Th ...

. It was the sister company of fashion chain

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, owned by

The Edinburgh Woollen Mill Purepay Retail Limited, trading as The Edinburgh Woollen Mill, is a British clothing retailer founded in 1946 by Drew Stevenson. It is headquartered in Carlisle, England. In November 2002, Philip Day (businessman), Philip Day led a management bu ...

History

The company was founded by Norman Freed in 1952, a descendant of the Compton family of Ellesmere Port, who sold it to

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in January 2003 for £70 million. On 30 July 2005, the company was purchased by

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for £117.3 million. In January 2007, Jane Norman reported a 45% rise in profits over 2006, and released plans to open one hundred more stores around the country, despite having already almost doubled their number from the year before, to 116. The company went into

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on 27 June 2011. On 28 June 2011, in a pre pack deal, the brand and thirty three stores were sold to Edinburgh Woollen Mill. The company went into administration again on 26 June 2014.Guardian: Fashion retailer Jane Norman stores placed in administration
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, which then operated the brand as an in store concession and online retailer. In May 2018, The Edinburgh Woollen Mill announced that the brand was set to close down.

Sources

External links

Official website
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