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Wickes (other)
Wickes is a publicly listed home improvement retailer based in the UK. Wickes may also refer to: Companies * Wickes Furniture, a former US-based furniture store chain * Wickes Companies, a defunct company, later called Collins & Aikman Places * Wix, Essex (archaic spelling), England United States * Wickes, Arkansas, a city * Wickes, Missouri * Wickes, Montana, a ghost town Ships * ''Wickes''-class destroyer * USS ''Wickes'' (DD-75) * USS ''Wickes'' (DD-578) Other uses * Wickes (surname) * Wickes Stadium, a football stadium in Michigan, United States * Wickes High School Wickes High School was a comprehensive public high school located in Wickes, Arkansas, United States. The school provided secondary education for students in grades 7 through 12 serving rural, distant communities of Polk County, Arkansas, primar ..., Wickes, Arkansas See also * Wicks (other) * Wix (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wickes
Wickes is a home improvement retailer and garden centre, based in the United Kingdom with more than 230 stores throughout the country. Its main business is the sale of supplies and materials, for homeowners and the building trade. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. History Wickes was founded by Henry Dunn Wickes, in Michigan, United States in 1854, and in 1972, Wickes Corporation, along with British builders merchant, ''Sankeys'', opened its first store in the United Kingdom. By 1987, Wickes was trading from forty one locations, and was floated on the London Stock Exchange under the leadership of CEO, Henry Sweetbaum. Serious accounting irregularities, involving the overstatement of profits, were uncovered in June 1996. In November 1996, Bill Grimsey was appointed CEO, to oversee its recovery from the scandal, that saw its share price suspended and the banks foreclosing. In January 1997, Grimsey launched a rights issue, started an employee share scheme, and turned aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wickes Furniture
Wickes Furniture was a privately held chain of furniture stores based in Wheeling, Illinois. The company was founded in 1971 with a showroom in Fridley, Minnesota, and at its peak, operated 43 stores in California, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Texas and Oregon. The company, despite its expansion into other markets, declared bankruptcy in 2008, and eventually went into liquidation for failure to find a buyer or an investor. At the time of its closing, it was owned by Sun Capital Partners. History Growth After its founding in 1971, Wickes Furniture had grown to 43 showrooms and five distribution centers. The company had over 1,700 employees, making it one of the ''Top 25 Furniture Retailers'' in the United States. By the beginning of the 1980s, it had grown into the United States' largest furniture retailer, but it closed nine of its then twenty four stores in the wake of the bankruptcy of its parent company in 1982, Wickes Corp. After Wickes was purchas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wickes Companies
Wickes Companies was a diversified manufacturing and retail conglomerate. It renamed itself after its subsidiary Collins & Aikman in 1992. Wickes acquired the Michigan Bean Company in December 1955 in an all-stock transaction valued at $1.6 million. Michigan Bean was one of the country's largest bean storage facilities. Gamble-Skogmo acquisition In August 1980, Wickes acquired Gamble-Skogmo Inc., a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based retail conglomerate, for more than $200 million. Although this grew Wickes aggregate sales to more than $4 billion per year, the company took on significant new debt. In May 1981, Wickes shut down Tempo, a former Gamble-Skogmo subsidiary operating 29 discount variety stores in the Western U.S. Bankruptcy Wickes started bankruptcy reorganization in April 1982. With $1.6 billion in debt at stake, it was at the time largest Chapter 11 reorganization since the passage of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Corporate acquisitions In 1985, Wickes acquire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wix, Essex
Wix is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of north-east Essex, England. It lies in a small valley about south of the Stour Estuary. The valley drains east towards Harwich. Formerly an important crossroads on the route to Harwich, it has now been bypassed by the A120 road. The place-name 'Wix' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Wica''. It appears as ''Wikes'' in 1191 in the Feet of Fines, and as ''Wiches'' in the Curia Regis Rolls in 1198. The name is the plural of the Old English 'wic', meaning a dairy farm.Eilert Ekwall, ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.529. St Mary's Church, Wix has a detached belfry, which stands in the churchyard and contains one bell. In 1961, the then owner of Wix Abbey Farm was ploughing in the church which was overgrown when he struck a large piece of dressed limestone, which with further investigation revealed a large stone coffin with a skeleton inside. Archaeologists we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wickes, Arkansas
Wickes is a city in Polk County, Arkansas, Polk County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 754 at the 2010 census. Near Wickes is the Boggs Springs Youth Encampment of the American Baptist Association, a retreat of Missionary Baptist churches. Wickes has historic places such as the 100-year-old City Hall, and the Lighthouse Drive-in. Geography Wickes is located at (34.301291, -94.334908). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 6.0 km (2.3 mi2), of which 6.0 km (2.3 mi2) is land and 0.43% is water. Wickes is home of the western terminus of U.S. Route 278. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, there were 637 people, 302 households, and 250 families residing in the town. 2010 census As of the 2010 census Wickes had a population of 754. The ethnic and racial composition of the population was 52.1% Hispanic or Latino, 44.3% non-Hispanic white, 0.4% African-American, 2.1% Native American a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wickes, Missouri
Arnold is the largest city in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States and is also a suburb of St. Louis. The population was 20,850, at the 2020 United States Census. History The first European settler in Arnold was Jean Baptiste Gamache, who operated a ferry boat across the Meramec River in exchange for 1050 arpents of land granted by the King of Spain. This ferry was on the King's Trace or El Camino Real, from St. Louis to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Eminent domain Arnold was a focal point over the eminent domain issue in Missouri. Case Summary for January 17, 2008 In January 2004, the City of Arnold announced that THF Realty had approached them regarding developing a section of Arnold known as the Triangle, Homer Tourkakis: Victim of Eminent Domain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wickes, Montana
Wickes is a ghost town in Jefferson County, Montana, United States. It is located approximately west of Jefferson City, and can be reached from the Jefferson City interchange of Interstate 15 by following Corbin Road until it intersects with Wickes Road at the old Corbin Corbin may refer to: People * Corbin (given name) * Corbin (surname) * Corbin (musician), American singer Buildings * Corbin Building, a historic building located at 192 Broadway in New York, US * Corbin Cabin, a log structure in Shenandoah ... townsite, which is itself a historic mining community. References External linksPhotos of Wickes, Montana on Ghost Town Gallery {{authority control Unincorporated communities in Jefferson County, Montana Ghost towns in Montana Mining communities in Montana Company towns in Montana Unincorporated communities in Montana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wickes-class Destroyer
The ''Wickes''-class destroyers were a class of 111 destroyers built by the United States Navy in 1917–19. Along with the 6 preceding and 156 subsequent s, they formed the "flush-deck" or "four-stack" type. Only a few were completed in time to serve in World War I, including , the lead ship of the class. While some were scrapped in the 1930s, the rest served through World War II. Most of these were converted to other uses; nearly all in U.S. service had half their boilers and one or more stacks removed to increase fuel and range or accommodate troops. Others were transferred to the British Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy, some of which were later transferred to the Soviet Navy. All were scrapped within a few years after World War II. Background The destroyer type was at this time a relatively new class of fighting ship for the U.S. Navy. The type arose in response to torpedo boats that had been developing from 1865, especially after the development of the self-prope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Wickes (DD-75)
The first USS ''Wickes'' (DD-75) was the lead ship of Wickes-class destroyer, her class of destroyers in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS ''Montgomery''. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name ''Montgomery''. United States Navy service ''Wickes'' was Keel laying, laid down on 26 June 1917 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works. The ship was Ship naming and launching, launched on 25 June 1918; sponsored by Miss Ann Elizabeth Young Wickes, the daughter of Dr. Walter Wickes, a descendant of Lambert Wickes. The destroyer was Ship commissioning, commissioned on 31 July 1918. World War I After an abbreviated shakedown, ''Wickes'' departed Boston on 5 August and arrived at New York City on 8 August. Later that day, she sailed for the British Isles, escorting a convoy of a dozen merchantmen. After shepherding her charges across the Atlantic, ''Wickes'' was detached from the convoy to make a brief stop at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
