Posts Tagged ‘woolies’

The Lalanis family, which owns the 99p retail chain less then ten years ago, has benefitted massively from the demise of Woolies, snapping up 16 of the former variety store’s outlets on Christmas Eve 2008. The 99p store group now has 129 shops and projected sales of close to £1 billion over the next six [...]

Shop got caught reading The Mail on Sunday this week and was interested to see the paper turning its vitriol on bargain shops, bewailing in a full page article that: ‘Protests grow over the 99p High Streets.’
So they’ve noticed have they, thank heavens for that?! While there is nothing wrong with providing consumers with a [...]

Shop was very pleased to hear of the reincarnation of Woolworths as www.woolworths.co.uk, a new family friendly website launched by the brand’s new owners, online and catalogue retailer, Shop Direct. The company polled about a million UK families to find out what they loved most about Woolworths, meaning that the online shop will included toys, [...]

Ironically enough, the former chief executive of Woolies, Trevor Bish-Jones, is launching a recruitment website aimed at unemployed execs. Mr Bish-Jones is thought to be investing some of his £500,000 severance pay into the new site, www.mypeoplebiz.com. The site is apparently designed to make use of social networking to help get folks into work, which [...]

Any fears that Tesco would completely gobble up the Easter egg market after snaffling the entire stock from Woolies (and putting them on sale in December for gawd’s sake), was quashed by the news that sales of Resurrection treats in Selfridges have soared by 80 per cent. The upper crust department store is doing well on [...]