Black Friday (shopping) Black Friday. In 2015, Black Friday was predicted to become the biggest day of shopping in Britain, with as much as £2bn spent in shops and online in 24 hours. However, many large retailers have discontinued, downplayed or heavily modified the concept since 2014, sometimes citing disruption to Christmas trading patterns or bad publicity. Black Friday appears to be growing in popularity year on year in the UK. In 2016, total spending on online retail sites on Black Friday 2016 was £1.23bn, marking a +12.2% increase on the £1.1bn spent on the same day in 2015. In 2017, retail sales
Stevenson Leisure UK Stevenson Leisure UK Stevenson Leisure UK is a moderate multidiscipline leisure organisation that owns and manages various small organisations including cafés, public houses, hotels, and holiday homes. Until 2014 the organisation also operated a chain of grocery/mini supermarket style stores however these were closed due to a "decline in the requirement of smaller stores in rural areas as online shopping is the favoured option of modern customers", according to a statement from their management. Founded in 1992 as The Welsh Pub Company and grew after acquiring several public houses in the Pembrokeshire county of south west Wales. By 1994 a