Great Universal Stores
of Devonshire Street, Manchester.
1917 Incorporated as a Limited Company
1945 Acquired Tyne Plywood Works.[1]
1952 Acquired a large interest in Lotus (Shoemakers) and later a further holding was bought by the Wolfson Foundation[2]
1963 Acquired S. Miller (Manchester), owner of Chorlton Warehouses mail order business.[3]
1972 the holding in Lotus was sold
1972 Acquired A. and S. Henry and Co.