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Woolworths Woolworths is considering plans to shed up to a third of the 1,000 retail division jobs at head office, and up to 120 stores will be sold or sub-let. 18-Sep-2008 Woolworths is to sell four stores in London to Waitrose for £25m, including outlets in Islington, Clapham Junction, Chiswick and Edgware Road. 19-Jun-2008 Woolworths is seeking retail partners to share space in 80 of its high street stores, with Somerfield having agreed to open food concessions in three outlets. 03-Apr-2008 Woolworths is planning to shed 60 of the 900 jobs at head office sites in London and Rochdale, affecting commercial and marketing staff. 25-Feb-2008 Woolworths is to close its store at the Arndale Centre in Luton in March with the loss of 58 jobs. 24-Jan-2008 Woolworths is to relocate its THE book distribution business from Chesterton to its recently-acquired Bertram business in Norfolk in December, with the loss of 150 warehouse jobs. 13-Sep-2007 Wincanton is considering plans to close a distribution centre in Rugby with the loss of up to 200 jobs, following a decision by Woolworths to withdraw from the site. 08-Mar-2007 Woolworths is to close its entertainment distribution warehouse in Newcastle-under-Lyme with the loss of more than 100 jobs, in order to transfer the work to sites in Norwich and Hayes. 22-Feb-2007 Woolworths is to acquire Bertram, the Norwich-based book distributor, for about £29m, in order to expand its Entertainment UK wholesaling subsidiary. 18-Jan-2007 Woolworths is said to be considering plans to close up to 200 of its 825 stores. 18-Jan-2007 Woolworths is planning to open 100 new stores over the next five years, while up to 25 of its larger sites will be closed. 21-Sep-2006 Woolworths has acquired Total Home Entertainment Distribution, the wholesaler of entertainment products, from 3i for £20m. 06-Sep-2006 Woolworths is looking to open up to 50 franchised Ladybird children's wear stores over the next five years. 24-Jul-2006 Woolworths is to close its store in Leicester city centre next January, with the loss of 90 jobs. 23-May-2006 Woolworths is to increase capital expenditure from £58m to £90m this year, in order to upgrade some of its larger stores and introduce collection points for internet orders. 30-Mar-2006 Woolworths has sold its MVC chain of 76 music and DVD stores to a group of investors led by Argyll Partners for £5.5m. 02-Aug-2005 Woolworths is looking to sell 67 MVC music stores, while the remaining 14 will be closed. 29-Mar-2005 Wincanton is expected to shed up to 184 jobs at its distribution centre in Winsford, following a decision by owner Woolworths to close the site. 17-Mar-2005 Woolworths, the high street retailer valued at about £700m, is expected to receive a takeover approach from private equity firm Apax Partners. 01-Feb-2005 Woolworths is to close its Big W superstore in Coventry next month, while its site near Redruth is being acquired by Tesco. 07-Jan-2005 Woolworths is to convert a further 75 of its 806 stores to the 10/10 concept next year, at a cost of £40m. 09-Sep-2004 Woolworths is forming a joint venture with BBC Worldwide to participate in video, TV and music production under the name of 2 Entertain. 12-Jul-2004 Woolworths is to invest £25m in a refurbishment programme for its main high street stores this year, while its Big W stores will be rebranded as Woolworths and some of the larger sites will offer sub-lets to other retailers. 25-Mar-2004 Woolworths is said to have approached a number of potential buyers for its chain of 18 Big W out-of-town superstores. 15-Sep-2003 Woolworths is to create more than 250 jobs in Aberdeen in July, with the opening of a Big W store at the Boulevard retail park. 28-Mar-2003 Woolworths is planning to expand its chain of 14 Big W megastores to 100 in the long term, with four due to open by the end of this year. 07-Oct-2002 Woolworths has announced that its VCI subsidiary has acquired a 76% stake in Banana Split Productions, the video and TV production company, for up to £2m. 25-Jul-2002 Woolworths is to open a £7m Big W megastore in Newport in October with the creation of 280 jobs. 23-Jul-2002 Woolworths has announced that its VCI subsidiary has sold the trading assets of its entertainment distribution business, Disc Distribution, to Deluxe Video Services for under £1m. 06-Jun-2002 Woolworths is planning to open a buying office in Hong Kong, to source products for its own label range. 29-Apr-2002 Woolworths is moving into the grocery market in partnership with convenience store group Spar, and Spar concessions will be launched in an initial 24 Woolworths shops. 12-Feb-2002 Kingfisher is in discussions with property companies about plans to develop a chain of Woolworth's discount stores in out-of-town locations, and a trial store is expected to be built at Kinnaird near Edinburgh. 25-Feb-1999 Woolworths has awarded a five-year contract to Freemans for the supply of telesales, marketing and distribution services for its new home shopping operation. 20-Feb-1999 Kingfisher is considering plans to open out-of-town Woolworths stores, and is to set up a 70,000 sq ft retail shed outside Edinburgh next year. 11-Sep-1998 Kingfisher says it could afford to spend up to £1bn on a European acquisition, and has also announced plans to expand the Woolworths home shopping catalogue following successful trials. 19-Mar-1998 Kingfisher saw increased sales in the third quarter, with Woolworths up 2.7%, Comet up 4.3% and B&Q up 4% (all including new floor space). 07-Dec-1995 Woolworths is experimenting at its Leicester store by expanding its book range to 5,000 titles. 10-Oct-1995 The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. 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