Stores

Argos is a British retailer operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland with over 737 stores. Argos is also one of the largest high street online retailers in the UK. According to the company, about 96% of the population in the UK were within 10 miles of an Argos store. Argos forms part of the […]

The company was founded by Richard Block and David Quayle in 1969 and is currently a fully owned subsidiary of Kingfisher plc.  From its humble beginning with one store being opened in Portswood in 1969, the company has grown and has an international presence. The company’s original name was Block & Quayle but was quickly […]

John James Sainsbury founded Sainsbury’s with a single shop in Drury Lane in London in 1869. Sainsbury’s is the UK’s second largest chain of supermarkets and deals in food and drink, appliances, home and garden appliances and tools, toys, e-books, and electronics. In 1922, Sainsbury’s became the largest grocery retailer in the United Kingdom and […]

Asda Stores Ltd. (ASDA) is a British supermarket chain that retails general merchandise, food, toys, clothing, and financial services. The company is also a mobile phone network, known as Asda Mobile. Asda’s headquarters are located in Asda House, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Asda is currently the third-largest supermarket chain by market share in the United Kingdom. […]

With its headquarters located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, Morrisons is the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the UK. The legal name for the company is WM Morrison Supermarket Plc. Morrison’s market share stands at 11.2% after a small dip of 2.5% year on year in February 2014. The company was founded in 1899 and […]

The Co-Operative or more popularly known as the Co-op is considered to be a single national business; however, each co-operative is an individual franchise that sells branded right that has been marketed by the co-operative group. The Co-op is the world’s largest consumer co-operative group with over 4,500 trading outlets across the United Kingdom. The […]

Boots UK Limited is a British pharmacy chain with outlets in the UK and Ireland. Boots was started by John Boot back in 1849 as an herbal medicine shop in Nottingham. After John Boot had passed away in 1860, his son, Jesse Boot (10 years old at that time) helped his mother run the business. […]

John Lewis is a chain of upscale retail department stores located all over the United Kingdom and owned by the John Lewis Partnership. John Lewis’ story started back in 1864 with the first John Lewis store in Oxford Street, London. John Lewis is familiar with its policy slogan, ”Never Knowingly Undersold,” which has been in […]

Aldi is a German-based discount supermarket chain and one of the largest retail chains worldwide. The chain is split into two separate groups; Aldi Nord (North) and Aldi Süd (South), which operate independently from one another in particular regions of Germany and separate international markets. Aldi’s German operations consist of Aldi Nord’s 35 individual regional […]

Iceland is a British supermarket chain with stores in the UK and Ireland. The company deals in high-quality frozen foods, vegetables, and prepared meals.  Malcolm Walker and his business partner Peter Hinchcliffe started the business in 1970 with one store in Oswestry, England. They started this business while still working at Woolworths, and as soon […]

Lidl is one of the largest grocery retailers in Europe. Lidl takes pride in providing top quality products at the lowest possible prices to all its customers across Europe. Lidl is a second largest discount chain in Poland. Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG formally Schwarz Unternehmens Treuhand KG) is a German global discount supermarket chain, […]

Netto is a Danish discount supermarket operating in several European countries. Netto is owned by Dansk Supermarked Group, which in turn is partly owned by A.P. Møller-Mærsk Group. Netto also runs a specific version of the store, known as Døgn Netto. Døgn stores offer the same service as regular Netto stores, with longer opening hours […]