Findel plc is a British

United Kingdom

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 home shopping

Home shopping

Home shopping commonly refers to the electronic retailing/home shopping channels industry, which includes such billion dollar television-based and e-commerce companies as HSN, QVC, eBay, ShopNBC, Buy.com, and Amazon.com, as well as traditional mail order and brick and mortar retailers as Hammacher...

 company, based in Burley in Wharfedale

Burley in Wharfedale

Burley-in-Wharfedale, is a village in the county of West Yorkshire, England. Along with Menston, Burley is part of Wharfedale Ward in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford . It lies on the A65, approximately fourteen miles north-west of the centre of Leeds and nine miles north of...

, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange

London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...

. Its chief executive is Roger Siddle.

Express Gifts

Express Gifts, the largest company within the Findel plc group, sells greeting cards, gifts, home and garden items through its Studio and Ace catalogues. Most of its business is undertaken in the Autumn

Autumn

Autumn is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter usually in September or March when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier....

 run-up to Christmas

Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

. More than 3 million major catalogues are distributed each year by the company.

Findel Education

Findel Education is the largest dedicated supplier of educational products in Europe , with a Head Office in the Hyde

Hyde, Greater Manchester

Hyde is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. As of the 2001 census, the town had a population of 31,253. Historically part of Cheshire, it is northeast of Stockport, west of Glossop and east of Manchester....

 area of Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...

. Customers include state and independent schools from nursery to secondary level, hospitals, charities, and other educational bodies. Product range covers all curriculum subjects as well as all the furniture, audio-visual, stationery and janitorial needs of schools and nurseries. The company trades in the UK and internationally through a series of high profile catalogue brands including Hope Education, NES Arnold, GLS, Philip Harris

Philip Harris Ltd.

Philip Harris Ltd was a British laboratory supply company with a long history that has now been subsumed into a succession of larger, more anonymous corporations...

, Galt, Step by Step, UNILAB, Davies Sports, Percussion Plus and EDCO. Findel Education undertakes PFI work in the UK.

Findel Services

Findel Services is a white label

White label product

A white label product or service is a product or service produced by one company that other companies rebrand to make it appear as if they made it.-History:...

 provider of consumer fulfilment solutions. Turning over £100 million, Findel Services has the claimed capacity to pick up to 1 million items per day, aimed mainly at Web and Digital TV based media. Clients include Matalan.co.uk

Matalan

Matalan is a British retailer that specialises in shoes and clothes. It was founded by John Hargreaves in 1985. It currently has 200 stores across the UK. The 200th store opened on 22 September 2006 in Croydon...

, EMI Records Group

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

, Provident Personal Credit

Provident Personal Credit

Provident Personal Credit Ltd is a financial services company selling loans in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, a subsidiary of Provident Financial...

 Ltd, Confetti.co.uk, Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer

Marks and Spencer plc is a British retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, with over 700 stores in the United Kingdom and over 300 stores spread across more than 40 countries. It specialises in the selling of clothing and luxury food products...

, and Petsathome.co.uk.

Kleeneze Europe

Kleeneze Europe is a multi-level marketing

Multi-level marketing

Multi-level marketing is a marketing strategy in which the sales force is compensated not only for sales they personally generate, but also for the sales of others they recruit, creating a downline of distributors and a hierarchy of multiple levels of compensation...

 company, founded in 1923 by Harry Crook in Bristol

Bristol

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, England. Following the 13 October 2006 collapse of Farepak and its parent European Home Retail

European Home Retail

European Home Retail plc was a listed UK company, operating in home retail. Though registered in Swindon, Wiltshire, its head office was based in Warmley, Bristol. On 13 October 2006, it was announced EHR and its subsidiary Farepak had gone into administration.-History:The origins of Farepak...

, Findel purchased Kleeneze together with I Want One Of Those.com and Kitbag companies from the group for £34 million, of which £2.5 million went directly to the failed Farepak.

I Want One Of Those.com

Gifts and gadgets website IWantOneOfThose.com (IWOOT) came 16th in the FHM

FHM

FHM, originally published as For Him Magazine, is an international monthly men's lifestyle magazine.- History :The magazine began publication in 1985 in the United Kingdom under the name For Him and changed its title to FHM in 1994 when Emap Consumer Media bought the magazine, although the full For...

 July 2004 listing of top websites.

Kitbag.com

Bought as package together with Kleenze Kitbag describes itself as Europe’s largest online sports retailer. See Kitbag

Kitbag

Kitbag Ltd. is one of the United Kingdom's leading sports retailers and amongst Europe's largest.The company was purchased by Findel PLC in October 2006 from European Home Retail plc.-Official stores:Kitbag.com is Europe's leading online sports retailer...

 more details.

History

In August 2010, Findel sold Confetti.co.uk and I Want One of Those

I Want One of Those

I Want One of Those is an online retailer offering a selection of gadgets, gizmos, toys, home and office accessories as well as organised adventures.-History:...

 to The Hut Group

The Hut Group

The Hut Group is an online retailer based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2004 by CEO Matthew Moulding, it sells non-perishable health and beauty, entertainment, fashion, bags, footwear and gifts.-History:...

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