BHS (British, 1928-2016, 2018–)

BHS (British Home Stores) was a British department store chain founded in 1928 by a group of American entrepreneurs. It sold clothing and household items. The company had a complex history. In May 2000 it was purchased by Sir Philip GREEN and became at first private company, and in 2009 – part of GREEN's Arcadia Group. In 2015 the retailer was sold to the Retail Acquisitions Ltd consortium for the nominal sum of £1, one year later all 22 BHS stores in UK were closed due to financial failure. After two more M&A deals in October 2018, BHS.com was relaunched again by the Manchester-based firm Litecraft Group Ltd, using the BHS brand under license from Al Maya Group, based in Dubai. At the moment Al Maya Group operates one final surviving physical BHS store, located at the Landmark Mall in Doha, Qatar.