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The food retail market has been dominated by the 'big four' supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons – who made up over three quarters of sector market share in 2010. Tesco is the largest retailer in Great Britain, with a market share of 27.5% at the end of 2022. [a][1] However, discounters Lidl and Aldi have grown rapidly. [1]
Group of four department stores with branches at Harrogate, Tunbridge Wells and Wilmslow. House of Fraser. Oxford Street, London. 1849. Group of traditional department stores in the UK; stores include: Glasgow * Birmingham. T J Hughes.
The store occupies a 5-acre (20,000 m 2) site and has over one million square feet (90,000 m 2) of selling space in over 330 departments making it the biggest department store in Europe. The UK's second-biggest shop, Selfridges, Oxford Street , is a little over half the size with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m 2 ) of selling space. [ 39 ]
Brand Image Founded / Came to UK Owner # of shops Notes B & M: 1978 B&M European Value Retail S.A. 800+ The business was founded by Malcolm Billington as Billington & Mayman and the first store opened in Cleveleys, England, in 1978 and was acquired by Simon and Bobby Arora from Phildrew Investments in December 2004
The historic Daniel Burnham-designed Selfridges flagship store at 400 Oxford Street in London is the second-largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and opened on 15 March 1909. [6] Other Selfridges stores opened in Stretford at the Trafford Centre (1998), in Manchester at the Exchange Square (2002), and in Birmingham at the Bullring (2003).
A Morrisons petrol station in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England. Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited, trading as Morrisons, is the fifth largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom. As of 2021, the company had 497 supermarkets across England, Wales and Scotland, [3] and one in Gibraltar. [4][5] The company is headquartered in Bradford, England.
This is a list of the largest shopping centres in the United Kingdom, listed by retail size in square metres (m 2).Only centres with space of 65,000 m 2 (700,000 sq ft) or more are listed.
A British fashion designer says she is "over the moon" that one of her long-lost designs was found in an Oxfam charity shop nearly 40 years after it went missing from the designer's warehouse.