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Oliver Bonas, Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London in 2008. Oliver Bonas is a UK-based homeware and fashion chain. [1] Founded in 1993 by Oliver Tress, as of 2023, there are 83 stores in the UK. [2] Tress is the chief executive. [3] It is headquartered in Chessington, South West London. [2]
Tress opened the first Oliver Bonas store on London's Fulham Road in 1993 selling handbags and jewellery from Hong Kong, where his parents lived, and products he sourced from trade shows. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] Tress used £3,000 of his savings to set up the first shop, using £1,500 of it for the rent.
Oliver Patterson Watts (July 16, 1865 – February 6, 1953) was a professor of chemical engineering and applied electrochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Born in Thomaston, Maine , Watts received his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College in 1889. [ 1 ]
The Bonas family, once grocers and butchers, also owned textile mills in Castle Gresley and Burton-on-Trent; they constructed looms for their own use, and subsequently manufactured them for sale to other companies. The "Bonas Brothers" company closed operations in the 1980s, having produced, as its final line, elastic for women's tights.