This article is about the former company. For the company which exists today, see Littlewoods (online retailer).
Littlewoods
Industry
Mail order, Football pools
Founded
1923 (stores), 1990s (online)
Founder
Sir John Moores
Defunct
2005 (stores)
Fate
Merged with Kays Catalogues
Successors
The Very Group Littlewoods.com Very.co.uk
Headquarters
Liverpool, England
Key people
Sir John Moores (Founder) David and Frederick Barclay (Final Owners)
Owner
The Very Group
Subsidiaries
Littlewoods Index
Website
littlewoods.com
Crowds gather for the opening of a new Littlewood's Store at Oswestry, 1950The Littlewoods Building in Liverpool, former headquarters of LittlewoodsA former Littlewoods branch in Chesterfield
Littlewoods was a retail and football betting company founded in Liverpool, England, by John Moores in 1923.[1] By the 1980s, it had grown to become the largest private company in Europe but subsequently declined in the face of increased competition from rivals and the Internet. The original company, employing 4,000 people, was wound up in 2005; however, its brand name is retained by The Very Group as the online retailer Littlewoods.com.
^"Littlewoods' John Moores, the father of home shopping". BBC. 17 March 2010. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
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