Littlewoods

About Littlewoods UK

The Littlewood’s mail-order catalogue shop has been around since the 1930s. In today’s competitive online retail market they still hold their own against a plethora of present day internet shopping outlets. But its not easy with new shopping outlets like Amazon monopolising the online shopping arena. Littlewoods is not just a name from the past, they are very much in the present and provide shopping choices for online customers who like to pay on easy payment terms.
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Littlewoods catalogue shop

Littlewoods Catalogue Shop

The official UK home shopping website for Littlewoods is Littlewoods.com an entire department store you can browse in your own home. Shopping on the website can be done by browsing several categories these include a sales section and dedicated offers page. The product range is immense and covers every possible shopping area including sports leisure, gaming and the usual suspects of fashion, furniture and electrical technology goods. Three of the main celebrities that endorse Littlewoods.com are Coleen Rooney on the fashion front. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen helping with the inspirational ideas on the home decor side of things. Myleene Klass is also a fan and brand ambassador of the Shop Direct Group.
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A Little About

History of John Moores mail-order catalogue

The catalogue company was established by John Moores and his brother Cecil. They ran the Liverpool based football pools company which started in 1923. This had already made John Moores a millionaire by the age of 35. The mail order shopping business was just another crack at it to see if he could do it again. The rapid growth was phenomenal within a few years the turn over was running into millions. The first Littlewoods home shopping catalogue was published in May of 1932 with 168 pages. In years to come it would get thicker and grow to over 1000 pages. He even created a chain of Littlewoods department stores with the first opening in 1937 in the town of Blackpool. The was the start of home catalogue shopping that went on to dominate for decades. On 25 September 1993 John Moores died at his home in Formby he was cremated 6 days later in Southport. He was made a CBE and knighted and had Liverpool University named after him. The business was passed to the Moores family which had become the biggest private company in Europe. Littlewoods was sold to the Barclay twins David and Frederick in 2002 for £750m financed by the bank HBOS. Hard times were ahead for the Littlewoods catalogue with increased competition from rivals and the emergence of the Internet. The Barclay brothers merged their other acquired catalogues businesses with Littlewoods including Kays Catalogue, Marshall Ward and GUS. These all come under the brand of Shop Direct. Other mail order and catalogue business that became part of Shop Direct Group were Very, Additions Direct, Abound, Isme, K&Co and Woolworths website which now redirects to Very.co.uk the catalogue store owned by Shop Direct.

Questions Asked

Littlewoods do not offer hard copy catalogues anymore product lines can be viewed on their website.

There is no live chat facility on the Littlewoods website they do provide free phone and paid numbers for enquiries 0800 092 3444.

Littlewoods and Very are part of the same company Shop Direct Limited and owned by the Barclay brother twins David and Frederick.

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