Timeline
Courts history:
- 1850 – Courts founded in Canterbury, England, by William Henry Court
- 1945 – Courts sold to the Cohen brothers who began to expand the business
- 1946 – Courts introduced hire purchase terms
- 1959 – First overseas Courts store opened in Kingston, Jamaica
- 1959 – Courts listed on London Stock Exchange. By this stage Courts had 34 retail stores in the UK
- 1965 – Courts opened first store in Barbados and diversified product range to include electricals
- 1969 – Courts Jamaica listed on local stock exchange
- 1971 – Courts entry into the Pacific Ocean (Fiji) and Singapore
- 1978 – Courts Barbados listed on local stock exchange
- 2006 (December) – Regal Forest Holdings Limited, a retailer of El Salvador assumed ownership of the 11 Caribbean businesses formerly owned by Courts PLC.
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