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British Retail and the Men Who Shaped It (Hardcover)
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British Retail and the Men Who Shaped It (Hardcover)
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List price R579
Loot Price R519
Discovery Miles 5 190
You Save R60 (10%)
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Many of the high street names that meet our twenty-first century
needs began with men and women who had ideas, imagination and sheer
determination in a different age. Whether you are nine or ninety,
shopping is a universal part of modern-day life, and in British
Retail and the Men Who Shaped It we look at the people behind the
corporations that built the modern-day high street and changed the
way we shopped. Meet Henry Curry, who began making bicycles to earn
an income to support his family and went on to found Curry's PC
World. James Wilkinson sold household goods in a quiet
neighbourhood street in Leicester, and always offered a fair deal.
He founded the Wilko's chain of retail stores. Thomas Cook was a
Baptist preacher strongly opposed to alcohol. He organised the
first-ever rail excursion to take workers away to an alcohol-free
event in Loughborough, from which the worldwide Thomas Cook travel
empire developed. George Davies was a buyer of stockings and tights
for Littlewoods Stores who launched Next before creating his own
company, George, currently retailing through ASDA. This book is a
celebration of the people who, through self-belief and
determination created the multi-million-pound retail businesses we
use every day.
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