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Embassy Records: The Cover Story. Woolworth's enjoyed phenomenal success in the early Fifties. It had become Britain and Ireland's predominant retailer, and appeared to have the golden touch when it came to new ideas. Competitors and commentators kept a keen eye on new developments. Very few of the Board's decisions surprised more observers, or ...
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Embassy Records. Kids today want designer names, the genuine thing. But in the 1950s and 1960s when money was in short supply, they were happy to buy double-sided cover versions of chart hits on the Embassy label, sold for 4/6d (22p) and marketed exclusively by Woolworths. The label was initially an offshoot of Oriole who did a deal with the ...
Embassy Records was a UK budget record label that produced cover versions of current hit songs, which were sold exclusively in Woolworths shops at a lower price than the original recordings. [1] The original label was active between 1954 and 1965, after which it disappeared when its parent company, Oriole , was taken over by CBS Records .
Apr 22, 2017 · Published April 22, 2017. On July 17, 1997, Woolworth’s closed their doors for good. Not that there were many doors to close. The company had been slowly selling off pieces of the company and shutting down individual stores for more than a decade. To commemorate the ex-giant, here are a few facts about the company that used to be the biggest ...
Dec 17, 2020 · Woolworths started out in the UK in 1909 as F. W. Woolworth & Co., part of the American company that was established in 1879. The first store was on Church Street in Liverpool and sold children’s clothing, stationery and toys. Woolworths took off in the mid-1920s with stores opening as often as every two to three weeks.
Among the treasyres that he bought for the five-and-ten were fine porcelain cups and saucers from Mysen to sell for 10¢ colorized printed postcards using a team of artists and a super-fast 100x150mm double-sided press, from a supplier who would take photographs or line drawings by American artists, colour and reproduce them as postcards which they would supply for just over 1¢ each and which ...
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The similarly named Woolworths supermarkets in Australia and New Zealand are operated by Australia's largest retail company, Woolworths Group, a separate company with no historical links to the F. W. Woolworth Company or Foot Locker, Inc.; it did, however, take the name from the original company, as it had not been registered or trademarked in Australia at the time. [2]
