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Jones Bootmaker

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Genre
  
Retailer

Products
  
Shoes

CEO
  
Andrew White (Feb 2012–)

Headquarters
  
Hinckley

Type of business
  
Private

Founder
  
Alfred Jones

Website
  
www.jonesbootmaker.com

Number of locations
  
106

Founded
  
1857

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Jones Bootmaker is a UK-based footwear retailer with over 100 branches and around 20 concessions in retail outlets throughout the United Kingdom.

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History

In 1857 Alfred and Emma Jones opened a footwear shop in Bayswater, London. Jones was a pioneer in the installation of electric lighting in retail premises. Nine of their eleven sons became apprentices and subsequently store owners, trading as A. Jones and sons. A company innovation was the supply of ready-made shoes in three widths.

After the Second World War the company expanded, with a warehouse in Eastbourne, the modernisation of existing stores, and the opening of new branches. The growth in Jones' retail outlets outstripped production at their factory; in 1955 the company became a member of the Church's group. A 'City Bootmaker' shop was opened in Manchester in 1994 and in 1996 the company began trading as Jones Bootmaker. After the acquisition of Church's by Prada Jones Bootmaker was sold in 2001 to a private investor and then in 2006 to a financial consortium. It was sold in 2010 to the Macintosh Retail Group and again in 2015 to Alteri Investors and Apollo Global Management.

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