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  1. Website. http://www.woolworth.de. Woolworths was a British high-street retail chain. At its height, it operated as Woolworths Group PLC, which included other companies such as the entertainment distributor Entertainment UK, and book and resource distributor Bertram Books .

  2. Woolworths (United Kingdom) originally was the British unit of F.W. Woolworth, but operated independently as a separate company from 1982, running stores in the UK, Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey. It also had interests in other UK retailers, such as B&Q , Comet , Superdrug and Screwfix as part of the Kingfisher group.

  3. Frank Winfield Woolworth was born in Rodman, New York on 13 April 1852. At the age of fifteen he gave up life on his father's farm to seek his fortune working in a shop in Watertown. Despite studying commerce and book-keeping at night school, his boss, William Moore, found him useless as a Shop Assistant.

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  4. Jan 23, 2024 · Business reporter. Once loved for its pick 'n' mix sweets and bargain prices, Woolworths stores could return to the UK. In 2009 when its British shops closed after the financial crisis, the brand...

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  6. Welcome to the Woolworths Museum. This independent site celebrates the huge impact that the visionary American entrepreneur Frank Winfield Woolworth had on retailing around the world, after opening his first successful store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on 21 June 1879.

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  8. Jan 6, 2024 · Woolworths demise 15 years on: What happened at the retail giant and could it come back? Once a staple of the high street, Woolworths had more than 800 stores in the UK at its peak.