Mates by Irvine Sellars

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Mates by Irvine Sellars
Industryfashion retailer
Founder Irvine Sellar
Number of locations
90 shops
Productsmen's and women's clothing
Number of employees
3,000 employees

Mates by Irvine Sellars was a British fashion retail chain founded by Irvine Sellar.

Mates started with one shop is Soho's Carnaby Street and grew to become "Britain’s second-biggest fashion chain" with 90 shops in 1981, when it was sold to a South African investor. [1]

Sellar claimed that Mates was the first retail chain to sell men's and women's clothing under the same roof, and that they had 3,000 employees. [2]

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References

  1. Bury, Rhiannon (27 February 2017). "Shard developer Irvine Sellar dies aged 82". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  2. Dawber, Alistair (6 July 2012). "Irvine Sellar: Blue-sky thinker" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2017.