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Asda
Asda Stores Ltd. () (often styled as ASDA) is a British supermarket chain. It is headquartered in Leeds, England. The company was founded in 1949 when the Asquith family merged their retail business with the Associated Dairies company of Yorkshire. It expanded into Southern England during the 1970s and 1980s, and acquired Allied Carpets, 61 large Gateway Supermarkets and other businesses, such as MFI Group. It sold these acquisitions during the 1990s to concentrate on the supermarkets. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until 1999 when it was acquired by Walmart for £6.7 billion. Asda was the second-largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom between 2003 and 2014 by market share, at which point it fell into third place. Besides its core supermarkets, the company also offers assistance for insurance and payment services and a mobile phone provider. In February 2021, the Issa brothers (Mohsin and Zuber) and TDR Capital acquired Asda. Walmart retains "an equi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Asda Stores Ltd. () (often styled as ASDA) is a British supermarket chain. It is headquartered in Leeds, England. The company was founded in 1949 when the Asquith family merged their retail business with the Associated Dairies company of Yorkshire. It expanded into Southern England during the 1970s and 1980s, and acquired Allied Carpets, 61 large Gateway Supermarkets and other businesses, such as MFI Group. It sold these acquisitions during the 1990s to concentrate on the supermarkets. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until 1999 when it was acquired by Walmart for £6.7 billion. Asda was the second-largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom between 2003 and 2014 by market share, at which point it fell into third place. Besides its core supermarkets, the company also offers assistance for insurance and payment services and a mobile phone provider. In February 2021, the Issa brothers (Mohsin and Zuber) and TDR Capital acquired Asda. Walmart retains "an equit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asda
Asda Stores Ltd. () (often styled as ASDA) is a British supermarket chain. It is headquartered in Leeds, England. The company was founded in 1949 when the Asquith family merged their retail business with the Associated Dairies company of Yorkshire. It expanded into Southern England during the 1970s and 1980s, and acquired Allied Carpets, 61 large Gateway Supermarkets and other businesses, such as MFI Group. It sold these acquisitions during the 1990s to concentrate on the supermarkets. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until 1999 when it was acquired by Walmart for £6.7 billion. Asda was the second-largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom between 2003 and 2014 by market share, at which point it fell into third place. Besides its core supermarkets, the company also offers assistance for insurance and payment services and a mobile phone provider. In February 2021, the Issa brothers (Mohsin and Zuber) and TDR Capital acquired Asda. Walmart retains "an equi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sainsbury's
J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, is the second largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, with a 14.6% share of UK supermarket sales. Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company was the largest UK retailer of groceries for most of the 20th century. In 1995, Tesco became the market leader when it overtook Sainsbury's, which has since been ranked second or third: it was overtaken by Asda from 2003 to 2014, and again in 2019. In 2018, a planned merger with Asda was blocked by the Competition and Markets Authority over concerns of increased prices for consumers. The holding company, J Sainsbury plc, is split into three divisions: Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd ( including convenience shops), Sainsbury's Bank, and Argos. As of 2021, the largest overall shareholder is the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar, the Qatar Investment Authority, which holds 14.99% of the company. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asda Mobile
Asda Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the United Kingdom operated by Asda and using the Vodafone network. Asda Mobile previously used the EE network before reverting to Vodafone in 2021. Asda Mobile is available in over 360 stores across the UK and online through purchasing either a SIM card (standard, micro or nano SIM) or through an Asda Mobile handset. Handsets There are many phones available from Asda, either in store or from their online service Asda.com. Asda sells both unlocked and locked phones: locked phones are locked to one of the major networks in the UK and sold with their SIM and potential phone customisations. Coverage and network Asda Mobile initially used the Vodafone infrastructure until 2013, when it switched to EE. A return to Vodafone was announced in October 2020, with customers being switched over in February 2021. The move brought additional features, including WiFi Calling and unlimited data plans. Awards Asda Mobile was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walmart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. The company was founded by Sam Walton in nearby Rogers, Arkansas in 1962 and incorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law on October 31, 1969. It also owns and operates Sam's Club retail warehouses. Walmart has 10,586 stores and clubs in 24 countries, operating under 46 different names. The company operates under the name Walmart in the United States and Canada, as Walmart de México y Centroamérica in Mexico and Central America, and as Flipkart Wholesale in India. It has wholly owned operations in Chile, Canada, and South Africa. Since August 2018, Walmart held only a minority stake in Walmart Brasil, which was renamed Grupo Big in August 2019, with 20 percent of the company's shares, and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuber Issa
Mohsin Issa CBE: and Zuber Issa CBE: are British Indians, British-Indian billionaire brothers and businessmen who both co-founded Euro Garages (EG), a chain of Filling station, petrol filling stations and convenience stores that operate in Europe, the United States and Australia. As part of a consortium with TDR Capital, the brothers are also a majority stakeholder in supermarket Asda. EG's annual sales across 10 countries is currently valued at €20 billion. Early lives Mohsin and Zuber Issa were born in July 1971 and June 1972 respectively in Blackburn, Lancashire in North West England into an British Indians, Indian Gujarati people#United Kingdom, Gujarati Islam in the United Kingdom, Muslim family to parents Vali and Zubeda who came to the United Kingdom from Bharuch, Gujarat, India in the 1960s to work in the textile industry and then ran a petrol pump. They were educated at Witton Park High School. Their childhood was a modest one, growing up in a terraced house in Blackb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohsin And Zuber Issa
Mohsin Issa CBE: and Zuber Issa CBE: are British-Indian billionaire brothers and businessmen who both co-founded Euro Garages (EG), a chain of petrol filling stations and convenience stores that operate in Europe, the United States and Australia. As part of a consortium with TDR Capital, the brothers are also a majority stakeholder in supermarket Asda. EG's annual sales across 10 countries is currently valued at €20 billion. Early lives Mohsin and Zuber Issa were born in July 1971 and June 1972 respectively in Blackburn, Lancashire in North West England into an Indian Gujarati Muslim family to parents Vali and Zubeda who came to the United Kingdom from Bharuch, Gujarat, India in the 1960s to work in the textile industry and then ran a petrol pump. They were educated at Witton Park High School. Their childhood was a modest one, growing up in a terraced house in Blackburn. Careers Before founding Euro Garages, the Issa brothers took out a lease on a garage, and saved up the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Stockdale
Sir Arthur Noel Stockdale (25 December 1920 – 2 February 2004) was an English businessman who co-founded the British supermarket chain Asda, alongside Peter and Fred Asquith. Early life Stockdale was born at The Mill in the Yorkshire village of Pateley Bridge on 25 December 1920, the son of Arthur Stockdale (d. 1961) and Florence Alberta (''née Wilson''). He was educated at Woodhouse Grove School in Apperley Bridge near Bradford. His father Arthur was a farmer who established Hindells Dairy Farmers, a West Riding of Yorkshire co-operative which became Associated Dairies in 1949. Arthur was its managing director until his death in 1961. Stockdale briefly worked at his father's business after leaving school, before embarking on a dairying diploma at the University of Reading. Military career Stockdale's studies at Reading were interrupted by the Second World War. He volunteered for the RAF in 1940, serving as a pilot, and flying instructor, reaching the rank of Squadron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohsin Issa
Mohsin Issa CBE: and Zuber Issa CBE: are British Indians, British-Indian billionaire brothers and businessmen who both co-founded Euro Garages (EG), a chain of Filling station, petrol filling stations and convenience stores that operate in Europe, the United States and Australia. As part of a consortium with TDR Capital, the brothers are also a majority stakeholder in supermarket Asda. EG's annual sales across 10 countries is currently valued at €20 billion. Early lives Mohsin and Zuber Issa were born in July 1971 and June 1972 respectively in Blackburn, Lancashire in North West England into an British Indians, Indian Gujarati people#United Kingdom, Gujarati Islam in the United Kingdom, Muslim family to parents Vali and Zubeda who came to the United Kingdom from Bharuch, Gujarat, India in the 1960s to work in the textile industry and then ran a petrol pump. They were educated at Witton Park High School. Their childhood was a modest one, growing up in a terraced house in Blackb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Rose
Stuart Alan Ransom Rose, Baron Rose of Monewden, Kt (born 17 March 1949) is a British businessman and life peer, who was the executive chairman of Marks & Spencer until 2010, remaining as chairman until early 2011. He was knighted in 2008 for his services to the retail industry and created a Conservative life peer on 17 September 2014, taking the title Baron Rose of Monewden, of Monewden in the County of Suffolk. Rose was chairman of online retailer Ocado from 2013 to July 2020. He has been chairman of Asda since 2021. In October 2015, he was appointed chair of Britain Stronger in Europe, the official remain campaign in the 2016 referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union. Early life Rose's grandparents were White Russian émigrés who fled to China after the 1917 revolution. Their son (later named Harry Ransom-Rose) was unofficially adopted by Nona Ransom, a Quaker from Bedford who served as English tutor to (among others) Empress Wanrong (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allied Carpets
Allied Carpets was a small retail chain specialising in floor coverings, mainly carpets (80%) and then also laminate and wood flooring and curtains, in the United Kingdom. Following financial difficulties and several changes of ownership, the company was dissolved in 2015. History It was formed by Harold Plotnek on market stalls in Birmingham in the 1950s. In the end of the 1950s, a warehouse was opened in Birmingham. In the beginning of the 1970s, he joined with Leon Fisher George Morris and Mayer Myers each of whom operated independent carpet stores and they came together under the name Allied Carpets. The company floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1971. It was the first carpet retailer to open very large stores on busy main roads, often after redeveloping former car showrooms. Previously carpet stores were small and only had sample books to show. Allied's difference was that they were large, with rolls of carpet stocked in the stores and large stocks at a central wareh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TDR Capital
TDR Capital is a British private equity firm headquartered in London, England. History TDR Capital was co-founded in 2002 by Manjit Dale, Stephen Robertson, and Tudor Capital.Company Overview of TDR Capital LLP ''Bloomberg Business'' It is located on Bentinck Street in , central London. In 2006, it was a large shareholder of the , which owned . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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