Company type | Private |
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Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1927 |
Defunct | 1983 |
Fate | Dormant company |
Successor | Hanson plc / Allders |
Headquarters | London, UK |
Key people | Sir Arthur Wheeler, 1st Baronet Joseph Collier Jack Lyons Bernard Lyons |
Products | Retailers |
Subsidiaries | Allders 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.