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Site-wide blog posts from Highstreett that are not tied to a single city.
Lincolnshire Co-op is owned by its members, not Co-op Group or private equity. Here is how the registered society, board and trading subsidiaries fit together.
Timpson is family-owned, not private equity-owned. Here is how Timpson Holdings, Sir John Timpson and the family trust structure fit together.
Who owns Gail's? Gail's is majority owned by Bain Capital Credit, the credit arm of the American private equity firm Bain Capital, since a deal that completed on 5 October 2021....
Who owns Morrisons? An American private equity firm: Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, usually shortened to CD&R, which bought Morrisons in October 2021 after a bidding war, in a...
Who owns Caffè Nero? Mostly one American: Gerry Ford, the founder, who has majority-owned it for nearly the whole of its life and still runs it as group chief executive. Caffè...
Who owns Pret a Manger? A Luxembourg investment company controlled by one of Germany’s richest families. Pret a Manger, the most London-feeling sandwich shop there is, has...
Who owns Whole Foods? Amazon, completely. Whole Foods Market has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon since August 2017, when Amazon bought it for 13.7 billion dollars. The...
Who owns Wetherspoons? Mostly the stock market, and about a quarter of it one man. Wetherspoons is J D Wetherspoon plc, a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange, and...
Who owns Greggs? Nobody owns Greggs, and that is the honest answer. Greggs is a public company, Greggs plc, listed on the London Stock Exchange, which means its shares are traded...
Is Nando's independent? No, but not for the reason most people guess. Nando's isn't owned by private equity and it isn't on any stock exchange. It is a privately held...
Who owns Cadbury? Cadbury is owned by Mondelez International, an American snacks company headquartered in Chicago and listed on the Nasdaq. It has been foreign owned since Kraft...
Who owns Costa Coffee? Costa Coffee is owned by The Coca-Cola Company, the American drinks giant, and it has been since 2019. It is not British owned and it has not been...
Results day means a few hundred thousand people just found out which city they're moving to, and most of them will get to know it the same way: open Maps, type "food near me", and...
Who owns Deliveroo? Deliveroo is owned by DoorDash, which is based in San Francisco. The takeover completed on 2 October 2025, Deliveroo was delisted from the London Stock...
Who owns Boots? Boots is owned by Sycamore Partners, which is a private equity firm in New York, and they have owned it since August 2025. It is not owned by Walgreens any more...
Who owns WHSmith? There are two answers now because it got split in half. The high street shops were sold in 2025 to Modella Capital, which is a British private equity firm, and...
Who owns Waterstones? Waterstones is owned by Elliott, an American hedge fund, and they bought it in 2018. So no, it is not an independent bookshop and it does not pass our...
Hello, I wanted to write a quick article to speak about an upcoming blog series i'll be doing and this is about the ownership of the businesses you will see on your highstreett....
Tripadvisor ranks restaurants by reviews, chains included. Highstreett only shows independent, locally owned places. Here's which to use and when.