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April 2000 – Majestic started selling wine online for the first time through majestic.co.uk. [citation needed] October 2001 – Majestic acquired Les Celliers de Calais, whose business was based around the British cross-channel trade. The stores were rebranded initially as Wine & Beer World, and then Majestic Wine Calais in 2013.
In December 2019, The Majestic portion of the business, including stores and branding, was sold to private equity firm Fortress Investment Group. Majestic Wines plc was renamed Naked Wines plc. [11] In effect, the previous shareholders of Majestic became the new shareholders of Naked Wines. Naked Wines is a publicly listed company. [12]
Naked Wines was launched in the US and Australia in 2012. [5] On 10 April 2015, Naked Wines was acquired by Majestic Wine for up to £70m, and Gormley was appointed CEO of the enlarged group. [6] Gormley announced his transformation plan for Majestic Wine in November 2015 and set the Group a new goal to achieve £500m annual sales by 2019. [7]
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In 1981 he bought from receivership the assets of what was to become Majestic Wine, [4] where, as chairman, he built it into a UK national chain. From August 1987 to May 1988, Clarke was chairman of Majestic Wine Corporation Inc, a United States company which owned a chain of 104 stores trading as Liquor Barn in California and Arizona. [5]
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