List of discount stores in the United Kingdom

This is a list of the current and defunct discount chains of the United Kingdom. This list does not include discount supermarket chains which can be found at List of supermarket chains in the United Kingdom.

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List of current discount stores

Discount Store Image Founded/Came to UK Owned by Number of Stores Notes
B & M
1978
B&M European Value Retail S.A. 400
Bargain Buys
2013
TPG 50 New brand launched by Poundworld founder Chris Edwards to replace former DiscountUK brand
Bargain Crazy Shop Direct Group 10 Discounter of surplus stock from within the Shop Direct family of companies
Boyes
1881
53 Discounter based In the North East, Yorkshire and East Midlands.
Buyright QD Commercial Group Holdings Ltd.[1] Pop up brand used by QD stores to test new locations. Stores are on temporary lease.
The Factory Shops
c.1980s
5[2] Family run Essex based discount store.
Family Bargains Poundland A sister brand of the 99p shop.
HEMA (store)
2014
Lion Capital LLP 3 Dutch discount store that started in Amsterdam in 1926.[3]
Home Bargains
1976
TJ Morris 380
In-Excess UK 4 Disconter based in Hampshire and Dorset.
Max 99p
2013
4 Family owned chain of discount stores located in Peterborough, Chelmsford, Pontypridd and Woolston.
The Original Factory Shop
1969
Duke Street Capital 200 stores[4]
Poundland
1991
Warburg Pincus 450+ Largest single price discounter in the UK.
Pound Mart Pound Mart (Scotland} Ltd Small chain of single price discounters. Store on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow claims to be largest pound shop in UK.
Poundstretcher
1981
Crown Crest Group 400
Poundworld
1974
TPG Over 300 Business started as market stall in Wakefield. Branded Poundworld since 2004. Also Trades as Poundworld Extra and Poundworld Plus
Quality Save
1974
Richard Rudkin & Paul Rudkin 21 Business started as a market stall in Walkden. North based discount chain.
QD stores QD Commercial Group Holdings Ltd. 25 Discount group based mainly in East of England & the Home Counties.
Savers Health & Beauty
1988
A.S. Watson Group 230 Discount drug store
Store Twenty One
2007
Grabal Alok 200 Discount Clothing and homewares. Created from the Ashes of QS Stores and Bewise.
The Range
1989
Chris Dawson 100 Discount home and hardware originally called CDS Superstores
Thing-Me-Bob QD Commercial Group Holdings Ltd.[5] 9 Brand name for smaller QD stores.
This is it Famous Value Stores 6 Chain of discount stores located in the South of England[6]
Tiger
2005
Zebra A/S 46 Danish discount sore based primarily in the South East
Trade Counters
c.1990s
2 South Essex based home and hardware discount store with at one time five stores
Trago Mills 3 South West based discount department stores

List of defunct discount stores

Discount Store Image Founded/Came to UK Closed / Brand discontinued Owned by Number of Stores Notes
99p Stores
2001
2016
Lalani family 259 99p Stores purchased by Poundland in 2015 rebranded as Poundland.
Alworths
2009
2011
18 Rebranded from Woolworths, entered administration in 2011.
Basildon Stores
2012
5 Discount home, garden and hardware chain based in South Essex. Closed due to retirement
Bewise
2006
Hamsard 2353 200 Discount homeware and clothing retailer. Went into administration 2006. Some stores were purchased by new chain Store Twenty One.[7]
The Big Label
2009
5 Formerly QS Discount, owned by QS Stores. Owned five stores in Blackburn, Sale, Atherton, Warrington and Chorley.
CDS Superstores
1989
Chris Dawson Discount chain rebranded as The Range
DiscountUK
2013
Chris Edwards and Chris Edwards Junior 41 Re-branded as Bargain Buys
House of Holland
c.1980s
South of England based discount department store went into administration late 80s.[8]
Hypervalue
1980
2009
Hilco Discount chain mainly located in South Wales but had stores as afar as Southampton. Bought by Hilco in 2006 before going into administration.
...instore
2002
2007
instore plc ...instore was a new corporate name that failed for £-stretcher business - name reverted to Poundstretcher
One Up
1993
16 Clothing & Home discounter created by Storehouse plc. Sold off in 1995 for £20m.[9][10][11]
Parker Franks Owned by Philip Green North west based discounter of homewares and clothing. Changed its name to Xception.[12][13]
QS Stores
1932
2006
Hamsard 2353 143 QS started life as a clothing manufacturer. In 1960s they opened their first store selling clothing rejected by main buyer Marks & Spencer. In 1980s the store stopped selling seconds and went private in 1990. Was purchased by Hamsard 2353 in 2003 who brought it together with fellow purchase Bewise. Business went into administration in 2006. Some stores became part of Store Twenty One.[14]
Waremart
2009
Chain of discounters based in Yorkshire and North East in former Woolworths stores
What Everyone Wants
1990
2003
Tradegro 130 Formerly What Every Woman Wants, a Scottish chain of discount stores that became UK national in 1990 after its purchase by Brown & Jackson, owners of £-Stretcher. Sold to Tradegro in November 2002 before going into administration a month later. Locations were bought by Poundstretcher and Bewise
Woolworths
1909
2009
Woolworths Group plc 807 Company went into administration. Name lives on as a web based retailer owned by Shop Direct Group
Xception Philip Green New name for North West based Parker Franks, a discounter selling a variety of clothes and homewares[15][16]
Your Home Stores Greater Manchester based discounter of homewares[17]
Your More Store
1991
2004
Tradegro 199 Set up Pepkor in 1991, the cstores were based in Scotland and the North East of England. Bought by Brown & Jackson, owners of £-stretcher in 1997, before being sold to Tradegro in 2003 while in administration.[18]

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