Which chain store founded by John Hargreaves opened its 200th outlet in Croydon in September 2006?
John Hargreaves (businessman) Customs, and the matter is subject to litigation. John Hargreaves (businessman) John Hargreaves (born January 1944) is a British businessman, the founder and chairman of the UK out-of-town discount clothing and homeware chain Matalan. John Hargreaves was born in 1944 in Everton, the son of a docks labourer, one of eight children who all shared one bedroom in a Liverpool terrace house. Hargreaves left school at 14, went into the retail business when he was 16, and opened the first Matalan store in Preston in 1985. Matalan has 200 stores in the UK, and employs over 16,000 people. He resigned
Outlet store the eastern United States in the 1930s. Factory stores started to offer damaged or excess goods to employees at a low price. After some time, the audience expanded to include non-employees. In 1936, Anderson-Little (a men's clothing brand) opened an outlet store independent of its existing factories. Until the 1970s, the primary purpose of outlet stores was to dispose of excess or damaged goods. In 1974, Vanity Fair opened up the first multi-store outlet center in Reading, Pennsylvania. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, outlet malls grew rapidly in the United States. A typical outlet mall in the U.S. is opened