About+topshop

**About Topshop**



= **Topshop has opend its first store in NYC in April 2009. The shop is 30,000 square foot shop it has been built with and investment of 20 million GBP. The retailer intends to expand through out the country with stores opening in Miami, Las Vegas, Boston and Los Angeles.** = = **Top shop is most well known for its womens clothing line. Topman is the mens clothing line which was created in the last 1970's. The business has expanded online,** = = **In the 1990's top shop was relatively unfashionable although in recent years the chain has** = = **reinvented itself into fashionable brand. Top shop is the only high street brand to do a regular show at Londons fashion week. Top shop has over 300 stores in the UK and over 100 in growing international territorys. Top shop first began in the basment of a department store in the north of England this shop was called Peter Robinson.** =

**Top shop is part of the Arcadia Group. This is a PLC it is a British retail company that owns the high street clothing retailers top shop is one of them.** **The group has over 2,500 outlets in the UK.

This company was founded by Montague Burton in** **Chesterfield in 1903 under the name of The Cross-Tailoring company it was listed in the London stock exchange in 1929

This is a PLC, this means that the** **money required to set up the business is divided up into shares. These are then sold to investors and the company is then run by a board of directors which is appointed by the shareholders. Limited companies have limited liability**