- Londis
Londis is the name for two
retail chain s operating in the UK and Ireland. The stores form asymbol group and are all owned on a franchise basis.Great Britain
Londis was established in
Great Britain in 1959 as a communally owned company, with each retailer owning a share in the parent company. The name Londis was a contraction of "London District Stores". However, in2004 , the parent company was sold to the Irish Musgravewholesale chain, bringing it under the same ownership asBudgens , which has now adopted a similar franchise-based business model.Ireland
In
Ireland , the Londis format is controlled by grocer-owned wholesaler ADM Londis plc.Allied Dublin Merchants was a co-operative of grocers in Ireland founded in 1954. Its subsidiary, ADM Londis Ltd, began in 1970 when it acquired the Londis master franchise for Ireland.In 1995, it bought the rights to the brand for the island of
Ireland outright. Its only remaining link with Londis UK is the name. A 1975 name change to Allied Distributive Merchants preceded the 2005 formation of ADM Londis plc.Cite web
url=http://www.londis.ie/zo7MA0o4Wz8Qmdw8arZAEeoj/About_ADM_Londis.aspx
title=About
publisher=ADM Londis plc
accessdate=2008-05-20 ]ADM Londis describes itself as a retailers' co-operative, and its members own 360 stores. Changing from a legal
co-operative to an unlistedpublic limited company in 2004, ADM Londis also claims to be the only Irishsymbol group where retailers can own the company through share holdings and realise the value in their shares at market price.Cite web
url=http://www.londis.ie/TMwbu4Mrod4P6enBPJhD8sMz/Franchising.aspx
title=Franchising
publisher=ADM Londis plc
accessdate=2008-05-20]From 1998 to 2004, a number of
petrol station s in Ireland had Londis-branded forecourt stores as part of an agreement withTedcastles Oil Products (TOP), a major Irish fuel retailer. These stores, and several high street stores owned by TOP Petrol Stations, were called Londis Topshop. In 2004 however, ADM Londis and TOP dissolved their agreement. ADM then acquired the jointly owned Londis Topshop stores and rebranded them as Londis, using the opportunity to rebrand the stores with the new Londis logo.ADM Londis introduced the Londis Plus brand for larger,
supermarket -format stores.References
ee also
Musgrave Group External links
* [http://www.londis.ie/ Londis Ireland Website]
* [http://www.londis.co.uk/ Londis UK Website]
* [http://www.musgrave.ie/ Musgrave Corporate Website]
* [http://www.londisstores.co.uk/ Londis Stores]
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