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George Davies. George William Davies (born 29 October 1941) is an English fashion designer and retailer. Davies headed Next from its creation in the 1980s, before moving on to start the fashion label ' George at Asda ' in the 1990s. Leaving Asda in 2000 following their acquisition by Walmart, he launched the Per Una fashion collection at Marks ...
The George brand was founded in 1989 as a partnership between English fashion designer George Davies & Asda. The latter had recruited the high-street designer for its grocery store brand to help shoppers avoid high street. Asda and George were sold to Walmart in 1999, which led to the expansion of the George brand into Walmart stores.
The label is named after George Davies, founder of Next, who was its original chief designer. Davies himself parted company with Asda in 2000 and is no longer associated with the brand. [91] In 2005, Asda stated that the George range was a £1.75 billion business, including sales from Walmart stores in the United States and Germany.
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He started his career as a graduate trainee engineer with British Gas. In 1988, he worked for Manchester-based Hopkinsons Group, one of British Gas's suppliers, as a marketing manager. In 1992–1993, he studied for an MBA at Cranfield School of Management. He began at ASDA as a marketing manager for Archie Norman, when aged 29 in April 1994 ...
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Marks and Spencer plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks or Marks & Sparks) is a major British multinational retailer based in London, England, that specialises in selling clothing, beauty products, home products and food products. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
George Davies, clothes designer and creator of George at Asda in 1990 and Next plc in 1981; Alan Grey OBE, Ambassador to Gabon from 1982 to 1984; Very Rev Rudolph Henderson Howat, Diocese of Brechin from 1957 to 1964; Graham Karran, Chief Fire Officer from 1980 to 1983 of Derbyshire Fire Service and from 1983 to 1990 of West Yorkshire Fire Service