Great Universal Stores
From Graces Guide
of Devonshire Street, Manchester.
1900 Founded as a mail-order business in Manchester, England by Abraham, George and Jack Rose.
1917 Incorporated as a Limited Company
1936 Acquired Marshall Ward
1937 Acquired Kay and Co
1945 Acquired Tyne Plywood Works[1] and British and Colonial Furniture Co.[2]
1952 Acquired a large interest in Lotus (Shoemakers) and later a further holding was bought by the Wolfson Foundation[3]
1963 Acquired S. Miller (Manchester), owner of Chorlton Warehouses mail order business.[4]
1965 Acquired Bollington Textile Printers.[5]
1972 the holding in Lotus was sold
1972 Acquired A. and S. Henry and Co.
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