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GUS (retailer), the Glossary

GUS plc was a FTSE 100 retailing, manufacturing and financial conglomerate based in the United Kingdom.^[1]

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British companies established in 1900
Retail companies based in London
Retail companies disestablished in 2006
Retail companies established in 1900

Abbey National

The Abbey National Building Society was formed in 1944 by the merger of the Abbey Road and the National building societies. GUS (retailer) and Abbey National are companies formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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Arcadia Group

Arcadia Group Ltd (formerly Arcadia Group plc and, until 1998, Burton Group plc) was a British multinational retailing company headquartered in London, England.

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Argos (retailer)

Argos Limited is a British catalogue retailer operating in the United Kingdom and formerly in Ireland, acquired by Sainsbury's supermarket chain in 2016. GUS (retailer) and Argos (retailer) are companies formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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Associated British Foods

Associated British Foods plc (ABF) is a British multinational food processing and retailing company headquartered in London, England.

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Bain Capital

Bain Capital, LP is an American private investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, with around $185 billion of assets under management.

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Barnsley

Barnsley is a market town in South Yorkshire, England.

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Belfast

Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.

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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

The Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is an academic journal on the history of science published annually by the Royal Society.

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Bon Accord Centre

The Bon Accord centre is the second-largest shopping centre complex in Aberdeen, Scotland and serves a large catchment area including the city and surrounding Aberdeenshire.

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British American Tobacco

British American Tobacco p.l.c. (BAT) is a British multinational company that manufactures and sells cigarettes, tobacco and other nicotine products including electronic cigarettes.

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British Home Stores

British Home Stores, commonly abbreviated to BHS and latterly legally styled BHS Ltd, was a British department store chain, primarily selling clothing and household items. GUS (retailer) and British Home Stores are companies formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom.

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British Land

The British Land Company Public Limited Company is one of the largest property development and investment companies in the United Kingdom.

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Burberry

Burberry Group plc is a British luxury fashion house established in 1856 by Thomas Burberry and headquartered in London, England.

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Byker

Byker is a district in the east of the city and metropolitan borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.

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Carlton Communications

Carlton was a British media company. GUS (retailer) and Carlton Communications are companies formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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Cavendish House

Cavendish House was Cheltenham's oldest department store (established in 1823), located on The Promenade.

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Cheltenham

Cheltenham is a spa town and borough on the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England.

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Clothing

Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on the body.

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Conglomerate (company)

A conglomerate is a type of multi-industry company that consists of several different and unrelated business entities that operate in various industries under one corporate group.

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David and Frederick Barclay

Sir David Rowat Barclay (27 October 1934 – 10 January 2021) and Sir Frederick Hugh Barclay (born 27 October 1934), commonly referred to as the "Barclay Brothers" or "Barclay Twins", were British billionaire brothers, of whom Frederick Barclay is now the sole survivor.

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David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale

David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale (3 November 1935 – 10 March 2021) was a British Conservative politician and businessman.

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Demerger

A demerger is a form of corporate restructuring in which the entity's business operations are segregated into one or more components.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Experian

Experian is a multinational data analytics and consumer credit reporting company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

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Fine Fare

Fine Fare was a chain of supermarkets which operated in the United Kingdom from 1951 until 1988.

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Footwear refers to garments worn on the feet, which typically serve the purpose of protection against adversities of the environment such as wear from rough ground; stability on slippery ground; and temperature.

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FTSE 100 Index

The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 100, FTSE, or, informally, the "Footsie", is the United Kingdom's best-known stock market index of the 100 most highly capitalised blue chips listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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Furniture

Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating (tables), storing items, working, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks).

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Gerald Ronson

Sir Gerald Maurice Ronson (born 27 May 1939) is a British businessman, philanthropist, and convicted criminal.

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Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn is a chain of hotels based in Atlanta, Georgia and a brand of IHG Hotels & Resorts.

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Home Retail Group

Home Retail Group plc was a home and general merchandise retailer based in the United Kingdom. GUS (retailer) and home Retail Group are companies formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom.

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Homebase

HHGL Limited, trading as Homebase, is a British home improvement retailer and garden centre with stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Houndsditch

Houndsditch is a street running through parts of the Portsoken and Bishopsgate Without wards of the City of London; areas which are also a part of the East End of London.

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House of Fraser

House of Fraser and Frasers are a British department store chain with 25 locations across the United Kingdom and 2 in Ireland, part of Frasers Group. GUS (retailer) and House of Fraser are companies formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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Index (retailer)

Index was a catalogue retailer in the United Kingdom, that was owned by Littlewoods from 1985 until 2005. GUS (retailer) and Index (retailer) are Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom.

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Isaac Wolfson

Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet FRS (17 September 1897 – 20 June 1991) was a Scottish businessman and philanthropist.

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John Peace

Sir John Wilfred Peace (born 2 March 1949) is a British businessman, ex-chairman of British fashion house Burberry and ex-chairman of Standard Chartered, a British multinational banking and financial services company.

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Kays Catalogues

Kay & Co Ltd was a mail-order catalogue business, with offices and warehouses throughout the United Kingdom. GUS (retailer) and Kays Catalogues are Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom.

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Kidderminster

Kidderminster is a market town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Birmingham and north of Worcester.

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Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson

Leonard Gordon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, FRS HonFREng (11 November 1927 – 20 May 2010) was a British businessman, the former chairman of GUS, and son of GUS magnate Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet.

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Lincoln, England

Lincoln is a cathedral city and district in Lincolnshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Littlewoods

Littlewoods was a retail and football betting company founded in Liverpool, England, by John Moores in 1923. GUS (retailer) and Littlewoods are Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a stock exchange in the City of London, England. GUS (retailer) and London Stock Exchange are companies formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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Maidenhead

Maidenhead is a market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England, on the southwestern bank of the River Thames.

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Mail order

Mail order is the buying of goods or services by mail delivery.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Manchester Building Society

The Manchester Building Society was a British building society which offered savings accounts from its head office in Manchester city centre at 125 Portland Street.

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Manny Cussins

Manny Cussins (26 October 1905 – 5 October 1987) was a British businessman, who made his fortune in the furniture retail business, John Peters, and became chairman of Waring & Gillow.

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Marks & Spencer

Marks and Spencer plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks or Marks & Sparks) is a major British multinational retailer based in London, England, that specialises in selling clothing, beauty products, home products and food products. GUS (retailer) and Marks & Spencer are retail companies based in London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUS_(retailer)

Also known as GUS plc, Great Universal Stores, Universal Stores.

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British companies established in 1900

Retail companies based in London

Retail companies disestablished in 2006

Retail companies established in 1900

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