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Joseph Hepworth (1834–1911) was the clothing manufacturer who founded Joseph Hepworth & Son, a company which grew to become the United Kingdom's largest clothing manufacturer and which is now known as Next plc. Career. Born at Lindley in Huddersfield, Joseph Hepworth left school at ten to join George Walker's Mill in Leeds in 1844.
J Hepworth & Son, Gentleman’s Tailors is established in Leeds, England. 1981. Hepworth buys the chain of Kendalls rainwear shops to develop a womenswear group of stores called NEXT. 1982. The first NEXT womenswear store opens on 12th February. There are 70 NEXT stores around the UK by the end of July. 1984. NEXT for Men launches in August.
Hepworth. The company was founded by Joseph Hepworth in Leeds in 1864 as a tailor under the name of Joseph Hepworth & Son. Initially Hepworth was in partnership with James Rhodes, but the partnership was dissolved in 1872. On his own, Hepworth expanded the company rapidly, becoming a pioneer of the development of chain stores in ...
The firm was founded in 1864 by Joseph Hepworth and, like Montague Burton’s, became one of the great Leeds success stories in the wholesale manufacture of ready-made clothing. Joseph Hepworth was a self-made man. Born in Lindley, near Huddersfield, in 1834, he started work when he was only ten years old as a mill boy, working ‘half-time ...
3. Nov. 2020 · 2020-11-03 - Peter Tuffrey. THERE IS nothing like a rags to riches story. Clothing manufacturer and retailer Joseph Hepworth neatly falls into this category. Starting life as a factory lad, he later went on to become Mayor of Leeds and run dozens of retail stores, before the entire operation was taken over by Next PLC.
11. Feb. 2022 · Founded as a tailoring business in 1964 by Joseph Hepworth, the Leicestershire-based retailer has expanded rapidly to form a nationwide retail chain and mainstay of the high street shopping districts under the creative and business prowess of English fashion designer and retailer, George Davies.
28. Jan. 2017 · Montague Burton was not the first to establish a successful chain of tailor’s shops throughout Britain: Joseph Hepworth and his son Norris had opened their first shops in 1884. Nevertheless, between the 1920s and the 1960s, Burton was the country’s predominant high street tailor.
