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Booths is a chain of high-end supermarkets in Northern England. Most of its branches are located in Lancashire, but there are also branches in Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester and North Yorkshire. ==History== E.H. Booth & Co. Ltd was founded in June 1847 when 19-year-old tea dealer Edwin Henry Booth opened a shop called ''The China House'' in Blackpool. In 1863, he added the sale of wines and spirits, and branches were opened in Lytham in 1879 and Blackburn in 1884. The business was incorporated as a private limited company in 1896.〔 Edwin's son John opened cafes in the stores in 1902 and invited all staff to become shareholders in 1920.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.booths-supermarkets.co.uk/about-us )〕 It has remained owned by the Booth family and staff ever since, comprising over 250 shareholders in 2011 and with no individual having more than 12% of the total shares.〔E.H. Booth & Co. Ltd., ''AR01 Annual Return'', 3 October 2011〕 The current chairman, Edwin J. Booth, is the fifth generation. In a feature article〔Sarah Butler, The Guardian 07.07.08, ''The thinking person's retailer'', Guardian News and Media Limited〕 in The Guardian in 2008, David Webster, the former chairman and co-founder of Britain's Safeway chain (which had sold out to Morrisons in 2004), said that he had tried to buy out Booths several times over the years, as did several of his rivals, adding "one thought Booths would have disappeared ages ago but it jolly well hasn't. It is obviously doing an outstanding job for its customers". From beginning as a tea shop in Blackpool, Booths grew into the first chain of supermarkets in the area, and even though it has now been eclipsed by bigger supermarkets such as Tesco and Sainsbury's, it boasted 32 stores across the region in 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Booths」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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