Mates by Irvine Sellars

Mates by Irvine Sellars
Industry	fashion retailer
Founder	Irvine Sellar
Number of locations	90 shops
Products	men's and women's clothing
Number of employees	3,000 employees

Mates by Irvine Sellars was a British fashion retail chain founded by Irvine Sellar.

Mates started with one shop is Soho's Carnaby Street and grew to become "Britain’s second-biggest fashion chain" with 90 shops in 1981, when it was sold to a South African investor.^[1]

Sellar claimed that Mates was the first retail chain to sell men's and women's clothing under the same roof, and that they had 3,000 employees.^[2]

References

^ Bury, Rhiannon (27 February 2017). "Shard developer Irvine Sellar dies aged 82". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
^ Dawber, Alistair (6 July 2012). "Irvine Sellar: Blue-sky thinker". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2017.

[dailytelegraphobituary-1] Bury, Rhiannon (27 February 2017). "Shard developer Irvine Sellar dies aged 82". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 February 2017.

[2] Dawber, Alistair (6 July 2012). "Irvine Sellar: Blue-sky thinker". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2017.

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