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T J Hughes

T J Hughes is a discount department store founded in 1912 in Liverpool, England. The retail chain trades from 1,800,000 square feet (167,000 m2) of retail space and have 53 department stores throughout the United Kingdom, specializing in home and fashion, fragrance and cosmetics. read more

 

Travelodge

Travelodge refers to several hotel chains around the world. Current operations include, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland and Australia; however, many of these are operated by independent companies who have no connection with the brands operating in other countries. read more

 

D. C. Thomson & Co.

D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy and Commando comics. It also owns Friends Reunited,[1] Parragon, and the Aberdeen Journals Group which publishes the Press and Journal, the Evening Express, the Aberdeen Citizen and the North Scotland edition of ScotAds. Historically it was a significant shareholder in the former ITV company Southern Television. read more

 

Freightliner Group

Freightliner Group Limited is a rail freight and logistics company, founded in 1995 and now operating in the United Kingdom, Poland, and Australia. It is the second largest rail freight operator in the UK, after DB Schenker Rail (UK). read more

 

Center Parcs UK

Center Parcs is a holiday and recreation company which operates four holiday villages in the United Kingdom, with each village covering about 400 acres (1.6 km2) of woodland. A similar enterprise operates in continental Europe under the same name; however, the two companies are separately owned. read more

 

National Car Parks

National Car Parks (NCP) is the United Kingdom’s largest private car park operator, with over 200,000 spaces across more than 700 locations in towns and cities, railway stations and at airports. NCP also had a growing service business, but this demerged from NCP in 2007. It is called NSL Services Group, and was previously called NCP Services Group. They also operated a bus company in London, called NSL Buses, and this was previously known as NCP-Challenger. read more

 

Seddon Atkinson

Seddon Atkinson Vehicles Limited, a manufacturer of large goods vehicles based in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, was formed in mid 1970 when Atkinson Vehicles Limited of Preston was acquired by Seddon Diesel Vehicles Limited of Oldham. In 1974 the firm was acquired by the American giant International Harvester, and in February 1983 it was purchased by the Spanish group ENASA which made it a subsidiary of Pegaso, a manufacturer of medium-sized commercial vehicles. In 1990 it became part of the international commercial vehicle concern IVECO who used the brand for various types of specialised vehicles in the United Kingdom. The range of models produced include EuroMover, Pacer and Strato, which are aimed at refuse collection, recycling and construction operators. The range is sold across the UK by a network of 13 distributors, comprising a mix of dedicated Seddon Atkinson dealers together with dealers who also sell IVECO models. Recent Seddon Atkinson vehicles are readily identifiable from other IVECO products because of the company's former Atkinson logo, a large letter 'A' within a circle, usually in chrome (or chrome-effect) on the radiator grille. The circular Atkinson logo dated from 1937, having largely replaced the 'Knight Of The Road' badge of earlier Atkinsons. read more

 

Ocado - OCDO

Ocado (LSE: OCDO) is an independent British Internet retailer specialising in groceries, headquartered in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. The limited company was founded in January 2002 by Jonathan Faiman, Jason Gissing and Tim Steiner, former Goldman Sachs merchant bankers. Ocado's products include own brand groceries from the Waitrose supermarket chain as well as a selection of name brand groceries and other items including flowers, toys and magazines. Ocado was floated on the London Stock Exchange on 21 July 2010 and is currently a member of the FTSE 250 Index. The company has a warehouse-based model operating from a purpose-built picking centre, purely online without any physical shops, unusual for a supermarket. Ocado operates in England's South East, South Coast, Midlands, North West and most of Yorkshire. read more

 

Flyglobespan

Flyglobespan was a British low-cost airline based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It formerly operated scheduled services from 5 airports across the UK and Ireland to destinations in Europe, North America, North Africa and South Africa. Its main bases were Glasgow International Airport, Edinburgh Airport and Aberdeen Airport. The airline's slogan was "Award winning airline". It is now in administration due to financial problems and the airline declared bankruptcy on the 16th December 2009. Because of the administration, Flyglobespan canceled all of its scheduled flights. read more

 

Berry Brothers and Rudd

Berry Brothers and Rudd is Britain's oldest wine and spirit merchant, which began operations in the 17th century. Its flagship store has been located at 3 St. James's Street, London, United Kingdom since 1698 when it was founded by the Widow Bourne in London. A supplier to the royal family since the reign of King George III, historic customers have included Lord Byron, William Pitt the Younger and the Aga Khan. Berry Bros. sells wine from around the world, including Bordeaux and Burgundy wines en primeur, and providing wine storage services as well. It also sells a number of wines and spirits under its own label, "Berry's Own Selection". It created the Cutty Sark whisky, and created the vintage concept for The Glenrothes single malt Scotch whisky. The Cutty Sark label was sold to The Ederington Group in 2009. The first wine merchant to open an online wine shop in 1994, Berry Bros. & Rudd also has offices in Hong Kong, two wine schools and a fine dining venue in the cellars in St. James's Street. In 2010 Berrys launched the first online fine wine trading platform 'BBX' (Berrys' Broking Exchange), which enables its customers to buy and sell wines that are stored in its bonded warehouses. read more