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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. On 5 November 1909 Frank Woolworth opened his first store outside North America. 5¢ & 10¢ became Threepence and Sixpence for the branch in Church Street, Liverpool, England. Woolworth had toyed with the idea of opening in Britain ever since 1890 and took the plunge despite the reservations of his management.

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  3. SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. 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. Quick Facts Trade name, Industry ... Close.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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.

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  8. The Pioneers. By 4 August 1914, when Great Britain declared war on Germany, the Woolworth chain had grown to forty-four stores, and included branches in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.