About Odeon Cinemas Odeon is a trading brand name of UCI cinemas operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It uses the famous name of the Odeon cinema circuit first used in Britain in 1930, even though is today operated by Odeon UCI Cinemas Group and ultimately owned by Terra Firma Capital Partners. In 2016,…
About Halfords Halfords Retail has operated around 465 stores, of which about 22 are in the Republic of Ireland and the others in the United Kingdom. Halfords Group plc is a British retailer of car parts, car enhancement, camping and touring equipment and bicycles operating in the UK and Ireland. They also provide MOT, service…
About IKEA “To create a better everyday life for the many people”, this is the IKEA vision. Our business idea is “to offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them”. We work hard to achieve quality at…
About Adidas Employing more than 55,000 people in over 160 countries, we produce more than 778 million product units every year and generate sales of € 17 billion (all figures relate to 2015). These numbers alone can easily suggest that our Group is quite a complex organisation. True. But we keep things simple, lean and…
About Harvester At Harvester, we have been passionate about creating a family-friendly atmosphere, coupled with freshly prepared food, ever since our first restaurant opened in Morden in 1983. Our aim is to bring food, friends and family together, with grills, rotisserie chicken, special kids dishes and our famous unlimited Harvester salad bar. Today, (30 years…
About Holland & Barrett Holland & Barrett International is one of the world’s leading health and wellness retailers and the largest in Europe, supplying its customers with a wide range of vitamins, minerals, health supplements, specialist foods and natural beauty products. With over 145 years of experience in the industry, our name is a familiar…
About Tesco Petrol Station Tesco first started selling petrol in 1974. Tesco sells 95, 97 and 99 RON (a fuel developed by Greenergy of which Tesco is a shareholder) petrol from forecourts at most superstore and Extra locations. Tesco have recently diversified into biofuels, offering petrol-bioethanol and diesel-biodiesel blends instead of pure petrol and diesel…
About JD Wetherspoon Our Chairman, Tim Martin, set up J D Wetherspoon in 1979. Why ‘J D Wetherspoon’? Because ‘J D’ form the initials of Sheriff JD Hogg, from ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ TV series, of course, while Mr Wetherspoon was one of Tim’s teachers in New Zealand! In addition to our Wetherspoon pubs, we…
About HMV HMV Retail Ltd, formerly HMV Group plc, is a British entertainment retailing company operating in the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, and Ireland. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE Fledgling Index. The first HMV-branded store was opened by the Gramophone Company on Oxford Street…
About United Biscuits United Biscuits (“UB”) is a British multinational food manufacturer, makers of McVitie’s biscuits, Jacob’s Cream Crackers, and Twiglets. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but in November 2014 it was acquired by Yıldız Holding. United Biscuits (UB) is a…
