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By 2000, B&Q had 51 large warehouse shops; this had doubled by 2003. By May 2014, B&Q in the United Kingdom had 359 shops, and 20,887 employees; [40] and eight shops in Ireland. [41] In March 2015, Kingfisher said it would close 60 B&Q shops in the United Kingdom and Ireland over the next two years, and a few loss-making shops elsewhere in Europe.
I was a B&Q employee about 10 years ago and got this discount, together with 10% off at other Kingfisher outlets (a lot more places then than now) but I think employees of the other stores only got 10% off at all stores, including their own.
Quayle was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire and went to school at Brighton College in 1950. He returned to the school to be a governor in the 1990s. [3]Quayle worked in the Marley Tile company in the 1960s and together with his brother-in-law Richard Block started the B&Q retail chain in 1969 in Southampton.
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Kier re-entered the housing market with a number of acquisitions and was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1996. It then expanded its construction, support services, and property management businesses. In 2021 its house building division Kier Living was acquired by Terra Firma Capital Partners and rebranded as Tilia Homes. In 2022 the ...
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In 1982, the British Woolworths and its sister chain B&Q were acquired by Paternoster Stores Ltd, the forerunner of Kingfisher plc. Woolworths Group plc was formed by the demerger of Kingfisher's general merchandise business, [ 43 ] and began trading as a listed company on the London Stock Exchange on 28 August 2003, using the symbol WLW.
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