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This is a list of department stores of the United Kingdom. In the case of department store groups, the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. The list is broken into "currently trading" (A–Z); "defunct groups" and "defunct" (A–Z).
Marks & Spencer announce they are to close 25 of their Simply Food stores and cut 1,230 jobs, after they announce pre-Christmas like-for-like sales fell by 7.1%. [8] England Cricket Captain, Kevin Pietersen resigns after months of rows with England manager, Peter Moores. Moores is sacked from his job by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Dickins & Jones. Dillons the Bookstore. Dingles (department store) The Discovery Store. Dixons Retail. Do It All. Doggarts. Dolcis Shoes. Ducker & Son.
Woolworths announce their 807 UK stores will close by 5 January 2009, putting some 27,000 people out of work. [47] Robert Napper pleads guilty to killing Rachel Nickell, who was stabbed to death on Wimbledon Common on 15 July 1992. [48] 19 December – MFI cease trading, closing all 111 of its furniture stores and leaving its 1,400 workforce ...
Just for Feet – bankrupt in 1999, acquired by Footstar, final stores closed in 2004. MC Sports – filed for bankruptcy and closed in 2017. Modell's Sporting Goods – first store opened in 1889. On March 11, 2020, the company filed for bankruptcy, and announced it would close all 115 stores.
William Whiteley Limited. Wickhams (department store) Wildings. William McIlroy (department store) P W Wills. Woolland Brothers. Woolworths (United Kingdom) Categories: Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom.
Es de Velasco (High-end, department store, founded in 1939, acquired by González Padín, closed in 1995.) New York Department Stores (Founded in 1931, acquired by the Melville Corporation in 1994, most stores turned into Marshalls .) Pitusa (Discount, department store, founded in 1976, bankrupt in 2014.)
2014 was the UK's warmest year since records began with an average temperature of 9.9C, 0.2C higher than the previous record set in 2006, according to a Met Office report of 5 January 2015. This means that eight of the UK's top ten warmest years have occurred since 2002. [196] New car sales reach a 10-year high of nearly 2.5 million.