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Peters Fashions, also known as Peters of Huddersfield, is a family-run 
The business has its origins in the department store
Family and Health: The family history of Peters department store - The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 9 February 2011, ''Accessed 29 May 2013''. In April 1982, Kayes, citing the recession and issues with town centre parking, announced their King Street store would close in July with a loss of 100 jobs. Peter Whittle who had worked at Kayes since 1948 used his share of the business to launch a store bearing his name; Peters. The store ran successfully for many years and remained a family business. Peter retired from the day-to-day running of the company and became company Chairman in 1991.
About Us - Peters, ''Accessed 29 May 2013''. His son David and daughter-in-law Caroline took over the running of the company upon his retirement. In 2001 Wolverhampton-based Beatties, James Beattie opened a department store in the Kingsgate Centre
Beatties to Open Store in Huddersfield - Just-Style, 24 August 2001 ''Accessed 29 May 2013''. and this,
Huddersfield History Since 1940 - Huddersfield One, ''Accessed 29 May 2013''. coupled with losses from the cookshop and cashflow difficulties relating to difficult market conditions saw Peters placed in the hands of administrators, Kroll Inc., Kroll, in February 2006 after revealing losses of £312,000 on a gross turnover of £3 million. The Whittle family left the business and the administrators decided that the business was able to be saved and ran it as a going concern. Later in 2006 the Whittles with backing from one of their concession partners, Stephen Buck,
Buyout deal saves Emma Somerset - Drapers, 14 March 2008, ''Accessed 29 May 2013''. were able to bring the store out of administration and resuming trading. The
made a department store
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in the market town
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of Huddersfield
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, West Yorkshire
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, England
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The business has its origins in the department store Kayes
Kayes (Bambara language, Bambara: ߞߊߦߌ tr. ''Kayi'', Soninke language, Soninké: ''Xaayi'') is a city in western Mali on the Sénégal River with a population of 127,368 at the 2009 census. Kayes is the capital of the Kayes Region, administ ...
, founded in 1863. Ernest Whittle was joint managing director of Kayes until his death in 1976, when his sons Alan and Peter took over.Family and Health: The family history of Peters department store - The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 9 February 2011, ''Accessed 29 May 2013''. In April 1982, Kayes, citing the recession and issues with town centre parking, announced their King Street store would close in July with a loss of 100 jobs. Peter Whittle who had worked at Kayes since 1948 used his share of the business to launch a store bearing his name; Peters. The store ran successfully for many years and remained a family business. Peter retired from the day-to-day running of the company and became company Chairman in 1991.
About Us - Peters, ''Accessed 29 May 2013''. His son David and daughter-in-law Caroline took over the running of the company upon his retirement. In 2001 Wolverhampton-based Beatties, James Beattie opened a department store in the Kingsgate Centre
Beatties to Open Store in Huddersfield - Just-Style, 24 August 2001 ''Accessed 29 May 2013''. and this,
Huddersfield History Since 1940 - Huddersfield One, ''Accessed 29 May 2013''. coupled with losses from the cookshop and cashflow difficulties relating to difficult market conditions saw Peters placed in the hands of administrators, Kroll Inc., Kroll, in February 2006 after revealing losses of £312,000 on a gross turnover of £3 million. The Whittle family left the business and the administrators decided that the business was able to be saved and ran it as a going concern. Later in 2006 the Whittles with backing from one of their concession partners, Stephen Buck,
Buyout deal saves Emma Somerset - Drapers, 14 March 2008, ''Accessed 29 May 2013''. were able to bring the store out of administration and resuming trading. The
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series of three programmes, entitled 'The Department Store'. Produced by Richard Macer, it was about independent department stores and how they are surviving in the modern world in the face of stiff competition from chain stores. The second programme in the series, on Peters, was shown on BBC Four
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on 24 November 2008 and followed David and Caroline Whittle for six months as they attempted to turn around the stores fortunes.
In September 2010, the Whittle family were able to regain control of the store, although this move was not widely broadcast at the time given the store's recent history and the couple's regret at having had to make people redundant in the past. The next generation of the family, Jonathan and Joseph Whittle have already been working for the firm and both are studying for business qualifications.
The company has now re-launched and undergone a full re-brand including website and social media overhauls and is trading in fashion and accessories alongside operating a coffee shop.
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