Talk:The Very Group

JMB
Do Littlewoods own the JMB brand of electrical goods too? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.253.64.15 (talk) 15:39, 6 July 2005 (UTC)


 * I believe they do, with JMB standing for John Moores Brand. Citation may be required though as I'm not 100% sure.... futhermore, I think the article as it currently stands needs some serious expansion. It moves from the 1930s to 2001 in a couple of sentences! I think the article would benefit from a number of subsections like Early History, Catalogue Venture, Littlewoods Index, etc etc, with each section having considerable and comprehensive content beneath. Once the article has padded a little more, I would urge editors to make these changes. Thanks, Jhamez84 09:39, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Updates
Many Littlewoods shops are now Primark - were they bought out? and should this be mentioned?

Around 120 stores were sold to Associated British Foods, which owns Primark, which has taken on around 80 of the stores, with the others being sold on in turn to retailers such as New Look. Having divested the high street presence, the Littlewoods Shop Direct Group remains a private company (entirely separate from ABF or Primark) and has focussed its activities on online and home shopping.

Did Littlewoods ever have a branch in the West End of London? --

Yes, two branches actually on oxford street. One was at the marble arch end underneath the Thistle Hotel, which is now a branch of Next and the other which was the company's flagship store at Oxford Circus, which is now home to three stores, Superdrug, Borders and again a branch of Next. There were also numerous branches around many London Boroughs.

The Marble Arch store was sold as part of a package of 22 large Littlewoods stores in the mid 1990's, many from major towns and cities across the country, to Marks & Spencer. Marks & Spencer planned to open furniture only stores in many of these locations but it never did trade from the marble arch site. Around the same time the Oxford Circus store ceased trading as a Littlewoods store and was broken up into the three units of today. The building was an actual part of the company's property portfolio, not rented and occupied a prime site in some of the most expensive retail space in the world. In the face of poor sales and high business rents, the decision was taken to cease trading on the site and benefit from rental income from other retailers.Wrh1973 19:46, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

"Acquisition" of Woolworths
Shop Direct purchased some of the Woolworths trade marks, but not, apparantly, those like "Sunshine" for light bulbs which are jointly owned with third parties. They also purchased the pending application for "Worthit" which was subsequently refused trademark status. They did not buy any of the Woolworths businesses, and so it was not correct to say that their businesses include Woolworths Group and that has been removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.26.57.60 (talk) 11:04, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Online Brands
According to very.co.uk and isme.com, both these sites belong to Shop Direct. I'll see if I can find some external references. Rojomoke (talk) 19:02, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

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Dear editors,

My name is Dave Lafferty and I represent Shop Direct. Upon reviewing the page, we have several suggestions that we hope will be helpful to ensure the information on the page is up-to-date and accurate. We are very open to discussion and working together to provide the appropriate citation to the suggestions:

- Paragraph 5: Annual sales were £1.9bn, with 62% coming from mobile devices in 2016. Source: Annual Report 2015/16: https://www.shopdirect.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Annual-Report-and-Accounts-2015-16-x.pdf

- Structure and brands: Shop Direct operates two retail brands: Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.com – within the former, we operate VeryExclusive.co.uk, a luxury fashion site. The former Shop Direct brands are: Additions Direct, Abound, Choice, Great Universal, Isme, K&Co, Kays, Marshall Ward and Woolworths. We are also known as ‘Shop Direct’ and no longer Shop Direct Group.

- Mail order: Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.co.uk operate as online businesses and orders are taken through the websites. Therefore ‘mail order’ is no longer the correct description.

- Locations: There is some repetition and historical information in this section that could be simplified without losing the key points, in particular relating to Skyways House, 'The Cube' and our warehousing and returns facilities.

We note the page isn’t updated frequently, and there hasn’t been any activity on the Talk page for some time. We propose leaving these suggestions here for a week to allow yourselves to review them, provide feedback or enact any. If there hasn’t been any response of updates, we will proceed with making the changes ourselves, with the full understanding that these will likely be revised by any editor following the page closely. At which point, we’re happy to engage in further discussion on the content, either here or on our own profile.

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Dave — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dave1984mcr (talk • contribs) 10:20, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

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