Rubicon Retail

{{Infobox company , name = Rubicon Retail , foundation = 2002 , defunct = 2006 , location_city =

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Rubicon Retail was a British retail group that traded between 2002 and 2006. The firm was formed in 2002 when a

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of several firms then owned by

Arcadia Group Arcadia Group Ltd (formerly Arcadia Group plc and, until 1998, Burton Group plc) was a British multinational retailing company headquartered in London, England. It was best known for being the previous parent company of British Home Stores (B ...

took place. This resulted in high street chains

Warehouse A warehouse is a building for storing goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial parks on the rural–urban fringe, out ...

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, and catalogue retailers Hawkshead and Racing Green, being transferred from Arcadia to Rubicon. Warehouse had been part of Arcadia since 1999, having previously been part of

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, and Principles had been founded by Arcadia's predecessor Burton Group in 1984. During its lifetime, Rubicon sold off Hawkshead and Racing Green and purchased the Shoe Studio Group, which operated from a series of upmarket shoe retail stores. In 2006, Rubicon was taken over by Mosaic Fashions, owner of the Karen Millen,

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chains. In 2009, following the collapse of Mosaic, Warehouse ended up in the hands of Mosaic's successor, Aurora Fashions, with Principles ultimately being bought out by

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, which had been part of the same company as Principles (the pre-Arcadia Burton Group) between 1984 and 1998 and had several Principles concessions in its stores. Clothing retailers of the United Kingdom British companies established in 2002 Retail companies established in 2002 Retail companies disestablished in 2006 Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom