Home Shopping Catalogues.

[Georgiesmum]

What happened to home shopping catalogues like Kays and Great Universal? Do they still exist?

[Sam1960]

Littlewoods still do one, not sure about the other two though !!

[Mass_Hysteria]

http://www.kandco.com/about-us/en/about-us.page

an amalgamation

[craft1948]

Freemans are still around, I think.............

[MadMen]

I love Very. They have lots of celeb ranges. The Holly Willaboobi being my fave :-)

[DJHawkes]

i use the studio catalogue sometimes when they send some decent offers through

[Buenchico]

Great Universal, Kays and Empire Stores were all part of the Shop Direct Group. Their trading operations have now been merged to become K & Co. That company mainly trades online but you can still order a catalogue from here:
https://www.kandco.com/catrequest/en/catalogRequest.page

Littlewoods failed on the High Street but you can still buy online or get a catalogue from here:
https://www.littlewoods.com/catrequest/en/catalogRequest.page

[Buenchico]

>>>Freemans are still around, I think

. . . but they've stopped printing catalogues:
http://www.freemans.com/web/main/Catalogue.asp

[Buenchico]

J D Williams now trades as Fashion World. You can get a catalogue here:
http://www.fashionworld.co.uk/shop/request/catalogue/standard/entry.action

[Buenchico]

Loads of interesting history here:
http://www.thecatalogshop.co.uk/

[Georgiesmum]

Thank you for all your answers.x

[Stephen_G]

Yes they do.....

http://www.kandco.com/

They just joined forces!

[Hopkirk]

Index died

[missprim]

http://www.homeshoppingdirect.com/shop/ Lots here, all under the same umbrella.

[Buenchico]

>>>Index died

Index wasn't strictly a 'home shopping' catalogue (in the way that others referred to above were). It was Littlewood's failed attempt to mimic Argos. (i.e. you ordered in a store, without the credit facilities offered by 'proper' home shopping catalogues).

[Hopkirk]

You are right Chris.

I remember using the Green Shield Stamps shop before it became Argos.

[Ann]

I may be wrong Chris - but I thought Littlewoods stores on the High Street and Littlewoods catalogues were completely different concerns (I used to be a Littlewoods agent for the catalogue)

[Mamyalynne]

The Fattorini family were the pioneers of home shopping....my Mum used to run one of their catalogues and had lots of customers, fraught with problems at times.

http://www.catalogue-connections.co.uk/empire-stores.php

[Buenchico]

>>>I thought Littlewoods stores on the High Street and Littlewoods catalogues were completely different concerns

Littlewood's catologues (and John Moore's catalogues), Liitlewood's stores and even Littlewood's football pools were all part of the same business:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewoods

[Ann]

I stand corrected then Chris ;) but the clothes were totally different in the stores to the catalogue.

[Hopkirk]

As Chris's link shows, Littlewoods was split up, with the pools and the shops going different ways.

I do seem to remember that at one time the High Street shops were indeed separate from the catalogues company.