Biba Ltd

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  • Distribution - retailing Mail order & catalogue retailing
  • Distribution - retailing Wearing apparel, footwear, haberdashery, mercery, etc, retailing

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Established 1963 by Barbara Hulanicki, b1936, fashion designer, and Stephen Fitz-Simon as a mail order business selling inexpensive women's fashionware. Developed a cult status and opened first store, at Kensington, London, in 1964. Refinanced by Dorothy Perkins and others c1970 when Biba Ltd formed. Closed 1975.

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