Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,647 pages of information and 247,065 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Shoefayre

From Graces Guide

1973 'Multiple footwear retailers specialising in value for money merchandise with particular emphasis on Ladies' fashion shoes.'[1]

1983 'A merger between Shoe-fayre the Wigston-based footwear retailers who are owned by the Co-operative Wholesale Society and the CWS footwear retailing interests is under discussion Shoefayre employ about people 100 them in Wigston....The 145 shops currently run by Shoefayre would continue to operate under that name following the merger'[2]

2002 'With nearly 300+ outlets'[3]

2007 Acquired by Shoe Zone which was owned (majority share) by the CWS

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Sources of Information

  1. Liverpool Echo - Saturday 13 October 1973
  2. Leicester Daily Mercury - Tuesday 07 June 1983
  3. Sunday Life - Sunday 14 July 2002