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Company: Liberty PLC
Industry: Retail / Wholesale
Acquisition Date: 28 June 2010
BlueGem Stake: 100%
Status: Portfolio Company
Website: www.liberty.co.uk
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On 28 June 2010 BlueGem
completed its public takeover of Liberty PLC, the British heritage
brand famous for its department store on London’s Great
Marlborough Street and its wholesale luxury fabrics business.
The Liberty department store is situated in an iconic tudor-style
building, located in the heart of London’s city-centre
between Regent Street and Carnaby Street, comprising approximately
70,000 square feet of retail space across six floors. Selling
both third party and own-branded avant garde fashion, beauty,
gifts, homeware and haberdashery, the store is well known for
its eclectic range and design-led offering.
Liberty Art Fabrics is a London and Tokyo based designer and
wholesale distributor of high quality printed fabrics to the
worldwide fashion industry. Established in 1880, it is a well
recognised brand whose materials and patterns are clearly identifiable
with Liberty and British design. Its design archive remains integral
to the Liberty brand, containing more than 43,000 designs.
Liberty’s own-label luxury goods brand, Liberty of London,
is showcased in the Liberty department store and sold through
wholesale operations to fashion retailers worldwide.
In 2009 Liberty generated group revenues of £60m and had
323 employees. |
