• Sears plc was a large British-based conglomerate. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index...
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    (1965–1984) and President (1984–1988). In 1988 Freemans was purchased by Sears PLC, whose other investments included bookmakers William Hill and the controlling...
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    Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/sɪərz/ SEERZ), is an American chain of department stores and online retailer founded in 1892 by Richard...
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    chief executive of Amber Day from 1988 to 1992. In 1999, he acquired Sears plc. He bought British Home Stores (BHS) for £200 million in 2000, and subsequently...
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  • in developing his retail activities, eventually helping him to set up Sears plc. Following the death of Titmuss, Sainer became senior partner and remained...
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    Dixons Group and Sears plc.: 4  From 1998 to 2001, Vennells was marketing and e-commerce director at Argos (then owned by Gus plc). She then worked as...
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  • November 2015. "SEARS PLC History - FundingUniverse.com". Retrieved 13 November 2015. "MAYFIND ACQUIRES OLYMPUS AND OLYMPUS SPORTSWORLD FROM SEARS – PR Newswire"...
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  • John George Sears (1870–1916) was a shoe manufacturer and the founder of Sears plc, which was one of the United Kingdom's largest retail businesses. Born...
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    Stores made an offer to purchase Debenhams, along with interest from Sears plc and Tesco, but were fought off by chairman Sir Anthony Burney. The company...
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  • acquired from Sears plc, who had been selling Hush Puppies in the United Kingdom. Sears' Hush Puppies retail business was sold to Stylo plc at the same...
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  • referred to as "New Sears") is an American privately held company formed on February 11, 2019, to acquire some of the assets of Sears Holdings Corporation...
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    company became part of the British Shoe Corporation, a subsidiary of Sears plc, in 1962, but that was broken up in the 1990s, and Lilley & Skinner became...
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  • Parliament for Cheltenham, 1906–1910 John George Sears (1870–1916), founder of Sears plc John W. Sears (born 1930), former chairman of the Massachusetts...
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  • November 2020. "Sears sells womenswear business". Business. BBC News. BBC. 8 July 1999. Retrieved 28 November 2020. The troubled retail group Sears has sold...
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    shoes concession business of UK retailer Sears plc for £9 million and the following year, bought from Sears their last shoe store chain, Cable & Co. In...
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  • companies Sears plc, a former British holdings company Sears Seating, also known as Sears Manufacturing, an American designer and manufacturer Sears Building...
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    the company was listed on the Unlisted Securities Market. In July 1990, Sears plc, who at the time held a 25% interest in Asprey, sold Mappin & Webb and...
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  • Storehouse by IKANO and Richard Shops was sold to the British retailing giant Sears plc. The Company bought Children's World from Boots in 1996, and rebranded...
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  • a subsidiary of Sears Holdings, bought Garrard. In July 1990, Sears sold Mappin & Webb and Garrard to fellow jeweller, Asprey plc, retaining an 38.5%...
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  • of his step-father Philip Green’s negotiating team that outmaneuvered Sears plc when the company was selling its subsidiaries. In 2003, Palos bought the...
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    every town in the United Kingdom. In 1929 the company was acquired by Sears plc. Its subsidiary, the Leicester-based British Shoe Corporation, went on...
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    1959, Sears Holdings Ltd increased their ownership in Mappin & Webb to 98%, after earlier acquiring a controlling interest. In July 1990, Sears sold the...
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  • acquisition of the Sears womenswear businesses, comprising the Warehouse, Wallis, Richards, Miss Selfridge and Outfit brands from the defunct Sears plc. Shortly...
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    then House of Fraser PLC, diversified into sports goods under the name of Astral Sports and Leisure (subsequently sold to Sears plc, owned Olympus Sport...
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    Miss Selfridge, along with Wallis and clothing retailer Outfit, from Sears plc. In 2002 Philip Green took over the Arcadia group. Miss Selfridge began...
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    planning to meet in town to agree to 'meet under the man'. Sears Group (Sears plc) (unrelated to Sears of the USA) Bill Smith (fell runner) Blacklers (another...
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  • married to actress Natasha Wightman.[citation needed] He is the grandson of Sears plc founder Charles Clore Duffield co-founded Arcane Films with Meg Thomson...
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    British Satellite Broadcasting plc (BSB) was a television company, based in London, that provided direct broadcast satellite television services to the...
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    religious and arts charities Leonard Sainer, businessman who helped set up Sears plc Ronnie Scott, jazz tenor saxophonist and founder of jazz club Ronnie Scott's...
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  • 1972, UDS made an offer to purchase Debenhams, along with interest from Sears plc and Tesco, but were fought off by chairman Sir Anthony Burney. Although...
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