BHS, Trinity, Albion Arcade, Leeds :: Shared Description

LinkExternal link
British Home Stores, commonly abbreviated to BHS and latterly legally styled BHS Ltd, is an online store and formerly a British department store chain, primarily selling clothing and household items. In its later years, the company began to expand into furniture, electronics, entertainment, convenience groceries and fragrance and beauty products. BHS traded from 1928 to 2016; the brand was later licenced to an online retailer.

The company was founded in 1928 by a group of U.S. entrepreneurs, and had a total of 163 stores, mainly in high streets or shopping centres, by the time of its closure in 2016, as well as 74 overseas stores in 18 territories.

BHS was previously a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, but was bought by Sir Philip Green in 2000 and taken private. The company became part of Green's Arcadia Group in 2009. Following a number of loss-making years, the company was sold to the consortium Retail Acquisitions Ltd, led by the serial bankrupt Dominic Chappell, in March 2015 for the nominal price of £1. In April 2016, 13 months after the purchase by Retail Acquisitions, the company entered administration following unsuccessful attempts to continue trading. It was eventually wound down, and all stores were closed by late August 2016 following failed attempts to find a buyer.

In July 2016, a committee of the UK parliament issued a report titled "Leadership failures and personal greed led to collapse of BHS". The Guardian reported "Sir Philip Green's reputation ripped apart in damning report on BHS demise. MPs say retailer’s former owners subjected it to 'systematic plunder' and describe the collapse as 'unacceptable face of capitalism'".

This extract uses material from the Wikipedia article "British_Home_Stores", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
by Mark Stevenson
More nearby... Related descriptions Selection is automatic and approximate, it might not always select closely matching descriptions

12 images use this description:

SE3033 : BHS, Trinity, Albion Arcade, Leeds by Mark Stevenson
SE3033 : BHS, Trinity, Albion Arcade, Leeds by Mark Stevenson
SE3033 : BHS, Trinity, Albion Arcade, Leeds by Mark Stevenson
SE3033 : BHS, Trinity, Albion Arcade, Leeds by Mark Stevenson
SE3033 : BHS, Trinity, Albion Arcade, Leeds by Mark Stevenson
SE3033 : BHS, Trinity, Albion Arcade, Leeds by Mark Stevenson
SE3033 : BHS, Trinity, Albion Arcade, Leeds by Mark Stevenson
SE3033 : BHS, Trinity, Albion Arcade, Leeds by Mark Stevenson
SE3033 : BHS, Trinity, Albion Arcade, Leeds by Mark Stevenson
SE3033 : BHS, Trinity, Albion Arcade, Leeds by Mark Stevenson
SE3033 : BHS, Trinity, Albion Arcade, Leeds by Mark Stevenson
SE3033 : BHS, Trinity, Albion Arcade, Leeds by Mark Stevenson


These Shared Descriptions are common to multiple images. For example, you can create a generic description for an object shown in a photo, and reuse the description on all photos of the object. All descriptions are public and shared between contributors, i.e. you can reuse a description created by others, just as they can use yours.
Created: Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Updated: Wed, 29 Jun 2016

The 'Shared Description' text on this page is Copyright 2016 Mark Stevenson, however it is specifically licensed so that contributors can reuse it on their own images without restriction.

You are not logged in login | register