United Drapery Stores

United Drapery Stores (UDS)
Company typePrivate
IndustryRetail
Founded1927
Defunct1983
FateDormant company
SuccessorHanson plc / Allders
HeadquartersLondon, UK
Key people
Sir Arthur Wheeler, 1st Baronet
Joseph Collier
Jack Lyons
Bernard Lyons
ProductsRetailers
SubsidiariesAllders
Richard Shops
John Collier
William Timpson
Whiteleys
Arding & Hobbs

United Drapery Stores, or UDS, was a British retail group that dominated the British high street from the 1950s to the early 1980s.