Are there any independent shops in Birmingham City Centre?
Apart from Swordfish, Tempest and a few sandwich shops I can't think of any?
Independant Retailers in Brum
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Independent Anything
OK forget shops becuase were not doing too well with that - is there anything else independent in Brum City Centre?
Sunflower Lounge
The Wellington?
Curry Houses?
Electric Cinema
I wonder if the 100 shops includes the Jewellery Quarter?
I have
a feeling that the success rate will be similar to when we were looking for indie shops.
Old Joint Stock?
A and B?
Is the Flapper an indie, its not Bass is it?
Pubs
Flapper - soon to be knocked down - Firkin breweries were owned by Allied but it could now be a free house however I would be very very suprised. Joint Stock is owned by Fullers. Not sure about the A and B?
I
remember Bass bought Firkin in the late 90's. But who owns the Flapper I don't know. I am guessing that perhaps Bass did not buy that one.
Allied
I think we already had a discussion as to who owns bass before but it was Allied Domecq bought the Firkin Breweries chain of pubs, Allied is now owned by Pernod Ricard. You'll probably find that they sold the pubs onto somebody else.
I
remember Bass buying a large share of Firkin when I was working for Bass back in 99
According to...
...wikipedia Punch Taverns bought the Firkin Brewery in 1999 who then sold some 110 pubs to Bass. It also says that they are currently owned by Mitchells and Butlers who are owned by Coors. It also says that the majority have been rebranded as O'neills, Scream or Goose pubs.
Its Punch Taverns that owns The Fighting Cocks and The Junction.
yup
thats what they did with the Firkin in Notts (next to The Newton Building). I guess it was one of the 110. It became a Scream (also Bass). It was The Scream (Ropewalk) I used to pull pints in.
Bass
Doesn't really exist any more.
Nostaligia & Comics
The Bike Shop on the Bristol road, some of the clothes shop around the back of New Street and in the arcade. Depending on what exactly your definition of indpendant is there's also Richer Sounds, another bike shop on Bradford Street, lots of those chinese warehouse type places, some of the furniture shops on Bradford Street, the Leather Warehouse place and several of those sort of places opposite the markets.
According to this article there's actually around 100 of them and soon to be more.
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/tm_headline=indepe...
100 Indies
Were not doing too well are we:
So far we've got:
Disorder
Tempest
Swordfish
Nostalgia and Comics
Not sure if you can count, Cheapside, Deritend and Digbeth as the city centre so that omits out your bike shops and chinese supermarkets as well as things places like Latifs and that vintage clothes place and the Custard Factory.
There is Oasis I suppose and a few things in the Mailbox and a few sandwich and take away places. I can't see where there is fifty let alone a hundred independent shops.
Nostalgia
Correct me if I'm wrong but is that not owned by the forbidden planet people now?
Yes.
It is.
One Less
So we have two or three record shops and one clothes shop! Looking at the Mailbox website it looks like more chain stores (only slightly more expensive ones).
Bland bland bland bland bland bland bland bland bland bland bland!!!
sounds
like hot air to me!
Richer Sounds
Is a chain.
It's not
A global mega-corp and I'd still class it as an independant store.
47 Stores
It is a chain with 47 stores nationwide. Not an independant.
Bike Shop
Has gone.
No it hasn't
I drove past it last night. I could tell it was a bike shop because it had bikes hanging up outside it and I could tell it open because the owner was talking to a man on a bike outside as he was taking the bikes back into his shop to close up for the day.
Corrected
I stand correct. However it is not really in the city centre is it.
Warehouses
Are not shops.
They
Are if you can walk into them and buy stuff.
Well...
...to buy stuff in a warehouse you need to be a member, to get membership you generally need to prove that you are retailer/business, more often than not this requires that you have references from other warehouses, a bank or direct suppliers.
The general public cannot walk into a warehouse and buy stuff like you can in a shop.
I see what you mean by the Chinese Supermarkets though but apart from the one next to the Arcadian, I wouldn't say that they were in the city centre.
Disorder
the clothes shop behind Tesco's
and then there is....
let me think!
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