Marks & Spencer made its first big acquisition in more than a decade yesterday when it agreed to pay pounds 192.5m for 19 Littlewoods stores. The deal is the largest by M&S since the purchase of Brooks Brothers in the United States in the 1980s. It is thought to be the company's largest ever UK transaction.
Thursday 17th July 1997.
This do not says about the Norwich store, I did think it changed from Littlewoods before 2005, and was M&S in the late 1990's, as it was expanding the shops, and then seems to doing so well, it was I think the first shops or company to make just over one billion in profits, but they was doing so well, they could not see what they was doing wrong, and the problems started to come after.
Just seen this, about BHS Norwich -
"By 1965 BHS had 87 stores (compared with Woolworth’s 1120, Marks & Spencer’s 240 and Littlewoods’ 70). Around 40 BHS stores had restaurants, where microwave ovens were introduced as early as 1966. This was a progressive company. In the same year, BHS took delivery of an IBM 360 computer which no doubt assisted with stock control. Although expansion continued unabated, the BHS board noted that the planning requirements of local authorities were becoming overly demanding. Negotiations were prolonged and difficult, delaying projects. BHS, like many other retailers, began to take ready-made units in speculative developments, such as a parade on St Stephen’s Street, Norwich, built by Norwich Union in 1963. The office tower over this store was not added until 1972."
Sadly since BHS store has closed, this has been empty, apart from when Primark was using this shop on St Stpehens Street, when the work on 5-9 Haymarket, Norwich had months of work on the building to make it bigger, this was first build as Littlewoods, Norwich in the early 1960 I think, to replace a older building, Greens, that was there before.
"In 1962 various materials deriving from an ancient well below the northwest corner of a stanchion base of Littlewoods Ltd were unearthed by building work. The well was filled in during the 13th century and it contained part of a stone column, glazed and unglazed roof tiles, an unglazed cooking pot and sherds, fragments of a face jug and animal bones. Further rebuilding in 1977 produced sherds of stoneware and Westerwald stoneware. These remains are located within the possible site of Norwich's medieval synagogue (NHER 448), which was demolished in 1286."
May be Littlewoods, on Haymarket to White Lion Street, was build in 1962, if I understand this right?
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