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A British version of Costco run by Nurdin & Peacock at 3 sites in Croydon, Birmingham and Bristol. [155] The operation was closed due to lack of membership renewals and shops purchased by Sainsburys. Cash Clothing of Leicester: Men's outfitters that expanded between the 1890s and the WW1. [156] Champion Sports
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) British Association of Social Workers (BASW) British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW) British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) Institute of Osteopathy (BOA) British Pest Control Association (BPCA) [3] College of Paramedics (CoP) Direct Marketing Association (DMA) Faculty of Advocates
Sports kit manufacturers Manufacturer Country Founded Founder(s) Key people Products Headquarters Total assets Website Adidas: Germany: 18 August 1949
Loake Brothers Ltd is a British shoemaker, founded in 1880, family-owned and still located in Kettering, Northamptonshire. The company was founded by the brothers John, Thomas and William Loake in 1880, in an outbuilding at Thomas Loake's house at 62 King Street, Kettering. [1] Northamptonshire is the centre of the English shoemaking industry ...
Sneakers or trainers , also known by a wide variety of other names, are shoes primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise but are also widely used for everyday casual wear. They were popularized by companies such as Converse , Nike and Spalding in the mid 20th century.
Fred Perry is a Japanese owned British sporting and fashion brand of clothing and accessories, founded by champion British tennis player Fred Perry in 1952. Although founded as, and intended to be a brand of sporting clothes, the Fred Perry brand gained mass popularity as a casual wear in the 60s due to association with alternative UK culture, notably the mods.
The earliest known shoes are sagebrush bark sandals dating from approximately 7000 or 8000 BC, found in the Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon in 1938. [5] The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in the Areni-1 cave complex in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3500 BC.
British Knights is an American brand founded in 1983 by Jack Schwartz Shoes Inc., [1] based in New York City. In the 1980s, British Knights distinguished themselves as an inner-city and music-driven brand, appealing to the predominantly male youth in urban communities.