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a combined ottakar' s and waterstone' s would own 325 shops in the uk .
the ottakar' s business has 141 stores in the uk, while there are 195 waterstone' s outlets .
hmv said the combination of ottakar' s and waterstone' s would create an
exciting, quality bookseller
.
so the effect of competition between waterstone' s and ottakar' s at the local level seems limited .
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ottakar' s was founded in 1987 and today has 137 stores across the uk .
an investigation by the oft found that customers could suffer if waterstone' s and ottakar' s were no longer rivals .
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ottakar' s independent directors initially recommended the management' s takeover offer but have now withdrawn that recommendation in favour of hmv .
ottakar' s chairman philip dunne said competition from the internet and supermarkets was hitting booksellers .
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ottakar' s turns a profit; new capital backing is received from foreign & colonial .
trading conditions at ottakar' s have deteriorated steadily since the second half of last year .
bury, liz, and richard lewis ,
ottakar' s claims hammicks: transforming deal sets out ottakar' s challenge to titans waterstone' s and wh smith ,
bookseller, may 2, 2003, p. 5 .
hmv has not yet said whether it plans to use the waterstone' s brand for the 141 stores in the ottakar' s portfolio .
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ottakar' s gets real ,
bookseller, april 9, 2004, p. 7 .
hmv' s approach for ottakar' s was criticised by authors and publishers who argued that a takeover would reduce choice on the high street .
bookstore chain ottakar' s has recommended that its shareholders accept a takeover bid from hmv, rather than one from the company' s management .
hmv, which owns the waterstone' s book chain, is to pay 285 pence per share for ottakar' s, less than tuesday' s closing price of 287p a share .
hmv - which owns waterstone' s books - is paying less for ottakar' s because the bookseller' s problems have deepened after the original deal was referred to the competition commission .
this will enable ottakar' s to offer an even wider and more relevant range of books .
ottakar' s flexes its format ,
bookseller, april 2, 2004, p. 7 .
hmv chief executive alan giles said ottakar' s store portfolio was highly complementary to that of waterstone' s and would benefit from his company' s stock management systems and a wider range of books .
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a consumer backlash over hmv' s proposed takeover of the ottakar' s book chain has forced the deal to be referred for a full - scale competition inquiry .
the offer trumped an existing bid by the chain' s management of £4 - a - share, which had initially been backed by ottakar' s independent directors .
he added :
the strategic rationale for the acquisition of ottakar' s is now greater than ever. a combined waterstone' s and ottakar' s business will create an exciting, quality bookseller, able to respond better to the increasingly competitive pressures of the retail market .
the company announces the potential for as many as 300 ottakar' s shops; the first store in ireland opens .
the deal for ottakar' s is worth almost £63 million, but is significantly lower than the £96. 4 million offered by waterstone' s owner hmv last year .
oft chief executive john fingleton said :
our economic analysis shows that ottakar' s competes harder on non - price factors when a waterstone' s is nearby .
the ottakar' s store portfolio is highly complementary to that of waterstone' s, and will benefit from the introduction of waterstone' s proven, sophisticated stock management systems ,
said hmv chief executive alan giles .
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ottakar' s, the bookshop chain, recommended yesterday that its shareholders accept a £96. 4m takeover bid from hmv, the owner of rival books chain waterstone' s .
in edinburgh, waterstone' s operates four outlets, including three within the city centre, while ottakar' s has two branches, including a flagship store on george street .
having previously rebuffed several approaches by hmv, which owns the waterstone’s high street outlets, ottakar’s today agreed to an all - cash deal worth 285p a share to its investors .
james heanage develops a business model for a chain of bookstores in england, and forms ottakar' s together with philip dunne .
ottakar' s acquires 24 hammicks bookstores in southern england, boosting the company into the top three u. k. booksellers .
lewis, richard ,
thins helps ottakar' s grow ,
bookseller, april 4, 2003, p. 7 .
that deal was scuppered by a competition investigation, while ottakar' s has also seen a further decline in trading since then .
a combined waterstone' s and ottakar' s business will create an exciting, quality bookseller, able to respond better to the increasingly competitive pressures of the retail market .
however, while the commission' s inquiry was taking place, sales at ottakar' s bookstores continued to drop. last week, ottakar' s said that like - for - like sales - which strip out the effect of new store openings - were down 8% in the 16 weeks to 20 may .
the company said ottakar' s would benefit from the introduction of waterstone' s stock management systems and operating practices, enabling it to stock a
more relevant range
of books .
bury, liz ,
ottakar' s pushes back the boundaries ,
bookseller, september 27, 2002, p. 8 .
adam frost is one of the uk' s most exciting new children' s writers. his stories can be found in print, online and in exhibitions and installations. he has won the blue peter book award 2016 - best book with facts, and been nominated for the ottakar' s (now waterstone' s) children' s book prize .
however, the investigation found that this was not the case and waterstone' s operated a similar book - buying system to ottakar' s, mixing central and local input on stock selection .
aldrick, philip ,
ottakar' s a success tale ,
daily telegraph (london, england), march 26, 2004 .
book shop chain ottakar' s agreed to a takeover by hmv today after conceding it faced a losing battle against supermarkets and online retailers .
music and book retailer hmv has agreed to buy bookseller ottakar' s in a deal worth £62. 8m ($ 118. 3m) .
blackwell, david ,
ottakar' s looks to new chapter of growth ,
financial times, september 25, 2002, p. 28 .
the music and books retailer hmv today agreed to buy ottakar' s for £62. 8m - far below its original offer of £96. 4m .
the strategic rationale for the acquisition of ottakar' s is now stronger than ever ,
alan giles, the hmv chief executive, said .
the competition watchdog today defied the literary fraternity by ruling that a takeover of book seller ottakar' s by hmv would not harm choice or quality .
no other groups have so far expressed an interest in buying ottakar' s, although wh smith is seen in the city as a potential bidder .
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ottakar' s noted the provisional ruling and said it was awaiting the publication of the final report of the commission, which is due by 22 may .
ottakar' s said it was continuing to hold talks with other parties interested in buying the firm, but that no other offers had yet been made .
hmv chief executive alan giles said :
a combined waterstone' s and ottakar' s business will create an exciting, quality bookseller, able to respond better to the increasingly competitive pressures of the retail market .
heanage settled on the name ottakar' s for his company, after the title of one his favorite books, king ottakar' s revenge, part of the tintin comic book series. heanage next found a business partner in donaldson lufkin jenrette investment banker philip dunne, who went on to become the company' s chairman. heanage and dunne both took out second mortgages on their homes in order to launch ottakar' s, then went in search of additional venture capital, eventually convincing baronsmead to put up £1. 5 million .
hmv launched a 440p - per - share bid for ottakar' s bookstores last week, which valued the firm at £96. 4m ($ 177m) .
ottakar' s has agreed an improved takeover offer from waterstone' s owner hmv that will see the book chain swallowed up by its larger rival and provoke outrage from authors and publishers who wanted the book chain to remain independent .
julia golding, who beat nine others to win the second £1, 000 ottakar' s children' s book prize for her debut novel, the diamond of drury lane, hopes to reawaken interest in historical novels for children .
independent directors of ottakar' s said they had recommended a 440p - per - share offer from hmv, increasing its chances of winning a contest for the business .
philip dunne, the ottakar' s chairman, cited increasing competition from supermarkets and retailers on specialist booksellers, particularly those not big enough to compete on equal terms .
a new turning point for ottakar' s came in 2003, when the company announced that it had agreed to acquire 24 of the 25 hammicks bookstores operating in southeastern england. the deal, dubbed
transforming
by the bookseller, gave ottakar' s a nationally operating chain of more than 120 stores, with revenues nearing £154 million by the end of the company' s 2004 fiscal year .
stuart hill, a former car upholsterer turned bookseller turned writer, today said he was
thrilled
to be the first ever winner of the ottakar' s children' s book prize for his novel, the cry of the icemark .
bookseller ottakar' s yesterday joined the lengthening list of specialist retailers to report serious damage being inflicted on their business by the combined power of the supermarkets and the internet .
hmv, which owns waterstone' s book stores, has received irrevocable undertakings to accept the offer from ottakar' s directors holding 15. 2pc of the company. morley fund managament, which holds 15. 9pc, has also provided a letter of intent to accept the offer but has reserved the right to withdraw in the event of a higher bid. hmv already holds 9. 9pc of ottakar' s .
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ottakar' s turning exciting new page ,
birmingham post (england), may 13, 2004, p. 21 .
however, after a year that has seen intense competition among books retailers - amid a heavy decline in consumer sentiment - the takeover values ottakar’s at just £62. 8 million .
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ottakar' s opened its third site in salisbury in 1989, and with the success of that shop, was able to shut down the brighton store and move ahead with building a national chain. nonetheless, for the time being, ottakar' s remained a loss - making enterprise, lacking the critical mass that would enable it to sell books profitably .
diana guy, chairman of the inquiry group, said :
in the few locations where waterstone' s and ottakar' s stores are close together, we found the range of books and quality of service were similar to their stores located in other areas .
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the turning point for the company came in 1990, when baronsmead agreed to put up an addition £1 million, which ottakar' s used to acquire the small six - store chain of the town booksellers group, which was active mostly in the west country. with eight stores now converted to the ottakar' s concept, the company turned its first profit by 1992 .
a combination of waterstone' s, which is owned by hmv, and ottakar' s would have
every incentive
to offer a full range of titles and service in its stores in order to give itself an edge over its rivals, the commission said .
ottakar' s added that it had withdrawn its recommendation of a 400p - per - share bid from a management buyout team led by its co - founders, james heneage and philip dunne .
introducing these systems and practices into ottakar' s would lead to cost efficiencies and margin and working capital benefits ,
an hmv statement said. the combined business will have 336 stores .
directors headed by managing director james heneage initially made a 350p - per - share offer to buy the firm around the same time that ottakar' s confirmed it had been approached by hmv .
ottakar' s chairman philip dunne said the book market had undergone significant change in the past year, with new levels of competition from supermarkets and web retailers having an impact on all specialist booksellers .
the two sides failed to reach an agreement, however, and ottakar' s did indeed go public in 1999. the initial public offering was a great success; launched at 153p per share, the stock price shot up to 204p by the end of its first day' s trading, and soon after soared to 270p per share. the listing also gave ottakar' s the distinction of being the only pure - play bookseller to be listed on the london stock exchange .
in the time it took to clear the deal, trading at ottakar' s worsened, which has enabled hmv to gain acceptance at a lower price. hmv' s rejected, 275p - a - share offer was pitched shortly after the competition commission allowed the deal to proceed .
the 285p - a - share bid values ottakar' s at £62. 9m and is a 0. 7pc discount to the book store chain' s share price yesterday. earlier this month, it rejected a preliminary approach, believed to have been pitched at about 275p a share .
adam frost is one of the uk' s most exciting new children' s writers. his stories can be found in print, online and in exhibitions and installations. he won the blue peter book award 2016 - best book with facts for the epic book of epicness, and has been nominated for the ottakar' s (now waterstones) children' s book prize. his other books for bloomsbury include the awesome body book and the book of me .
in september last year, ottakar' s accepted a 440p - per - share offer from hmv which valued the bookseller at £96. 4m, but the bid lapsed after it was referred to competition authorities .
the independent directors confirm that they consider the terms of the offer to be fair and reasonable and will be unanimously recommending that ottakar' s shareholders accept the offer ,
they said in a statement .
the independent bookstore chain ottakar’s has finally agreed to be taken over by hmv, the music and books group, after a long - drawn - out takeover tussle that has seen the value of the bookseller slump .
hmv agreed a £96. 4 million takeover with independent directors of ottakar' s last year, following a bidding war, but this offer lapsed after the office of fair trading referred the deal for a full competition inquiry .
he added :
against this background, and given the costs and risks associated with implementing the necessary restructuring programme to compete longer term, the board of ottakar' s believes that the offer is fair and reasonable .
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against this background, and given the costs and risks associated with implementing the necessary restructuring programme to compete longer term, the board of ottakar' s believes that the offer is fair and reasonable ,
mr dunne said .
the book chain launched the prize, worth £1, 000, with the intention of highlighting new talent in children' s writing. in order to avoid encroaching on the territory of other awards in the crowded arena of children' s literature prizes, the ottakar' s award is open only to authors who have written three books or fewer, and is designed to favour those who have yet to see their talent fully recognised .
it’s awesome of course, because it’s our body. this book explains the magic of our body, except it’s not magic, of course, it’s science. it helps us see how things that are amazing can be explained scientifically and how they work. from things we don’t think about like breathing, to things we actively do, like running. it puts what’s awesome about our bodies into perspective too. why have we evolved in a certain way and how they compare to other animals? we can learn what’s going on in our bodies and how we perceive the world .
the referral was prompted by a deluge of complaints from consumers as well as writers such as jacqueline wilson, antony beevor, tracey chevalier and margaret drabble. they feared that the combined force of waterstone' s 198 stores and ottakar' s 137 branches would severely reduce the number, quality and price of books stocked and promoted on the high street .
by 2000, heanage and his management team had succeeded in returning ottakar' s to growth and profits. the company now sought to continue its store expansion, in part through targeting other bookstore chains. in 2001, the company was rumored to be in talks to acquire the troubled waterstone' s bookstore chain from hmv, although no deal materialized .
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that found in hmv' s favour because of the presence of supermarkets and online operators such as amazon .
ottakar' s chairman philip dunne said :
over the last year the book market has undergone a significant change with new levels of competition from the supermarkets and online retailers impacting all specialist booksellers and in particular those with insufficient scale to compete on equal terms .
ottakar' s is awaiting a ruling from the competition commission on whether its rival hmv, which owns waterstone' s, can bid for the chain. hmv tabled a 440p - a - share bid last year which trumped a management buyout planned by mr heneage. however, after a vocal campaign by authors and publishers, the proposed deal was referred to the commission in december .
over the past year the book market has undergone a significant change, with new levels of competition from the supermarkets and online retailers impacting all specialist booksellers and in particular those with insufficient scale to compete on equal terms ,
said ottakar' s chairman philip dunne .
the takeover price is much lower than the 440p a share hmv was offering last september after winning a bidding war against ottakar' s management team headed by founder james heneage. the deal was delayed when it was referred to the competition commission, which this month gave it the all - clear .
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in that year, the company found new financial backing when venture capital specialist foreign & colonial paid in £1 million, in exchange for a majority share of ottakar' s. backing from foreign & colonial enabled the company to step up its expansion. in that year, it made an unsuccessful attempt to acquire the hammicks bookstore chain, then already a prominent bookseller in the southeast. instead, ottakar' s continued adding new stores, and by 1995, the company had already achieved sales of more than £9 million. the company continued adding new stores, some through acquisition, such as its purchase of four bells bookshops in 1998. that acquisition brought the company' s total number of shops to nearly 50, for sales of more than £36 million .
hmv has itself attracted takeover interest from the private equity firm permira as well as from tim waterstone, the founder of waterstone' s .
if hmv' s bid is successful, the merged bookstore chain would control 23% of the market, which could raise competition concerns .
a former diplomat and un campaigner has won a prize for new children' s authors with her tale of an orphan living in georgian london .
ms golding, who has three children and lives in oxford, said she was
completely surprised
to win .
it' s a dream come true. maybe now is the time for a historical children' s book. we' ve had a lot of fantasy .
the fall in the company' s share price left it dangerously vulnerable to a potential hostile takeover. luckily for the company, however, no takeover ever came. instead, heanage devised a new strategy to carry the company into the next century. ottakar' s pulled the plug on its e - commerce site - - which heanage claimed had been set up in the first place due to pressure from the company' s investors - - and instead launched a new intranet focused on using online capacity to streamline its supply chain side. the company also scaled back its plans for the launch pad format, restricting it to an in - store boutique concept .
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ottakar' s today is a paradox. on the one hand it is a national book chain striving to offer uniform excellence in range and service across over 120 branches. on the other hand it is a collection of intensely individual bookshops, run with great autonomy by staff whose commitment to books is matched only by their commitment to provide a bookselling service tailor - made for their communities .
ottakar' s turned toward the new century with ambitious expansion plans. the company continued to expand its store chain, entering the scottish market with a store in glasgow in 1999. yet ottakar' s also sought a piece of the internet action, launching an ambitious e - commerce site as well. at the same time, the company believed it had discovered a new consumer niche - - that of the 5 - to 12 - year - old
post - early learning
segment - - and developed a new retail format, launch pad, combining books and other educational toys, games, and materials. the company began rolling out the launch pad concept as in - store boutiques in its larger stores, while also developing an independent retail format for the concept .
instead, the company maintained an organic growth track for the time being, raising its store numbers past 75 by the end of 2001, and seeing its revenues near £100 million for the first time. at last, in 2002, the company turned to scotland, acquiring the eight specialist book shops of the struggling james thin company, which had been placed in receivership earlier that year. with its store network now at 86 stores, ottakar' s began a crucial shift away from its former reliance on book wholesalers to making its first direct purchases within britain' s publishing industry .
james heneage is a founder of the history festival and of the ottakar’s chain of bookshops which was sold to waterstones in 2006. he is a former chairman of the cheltenham literary festival and a booker prize judge. now a full - time writer who lives half of the year in the peloponnese, his fifth novel ‘a world on fire’ is set against the greek war of independence and will come out in august 2018 .
i' m particularly interested in how people cope with historical moments in our life. i was thinking about the french revolution and what was happening in london at that time, when to be outspoken could be a death sentence. it' s not intended to be didactic, but there' s a keen interest in politics which informed the book .
in its response, hmv said :
the company is now considering the full text of the competition commission' s provisional conclusions and will continue to work closely with the commission .
waterstone' s employee stuart hill, who worked on the cry of the icemark during his tea breaks, was snapped up by independent publisher barry cunningham last year. cunningham, who has a recognised eye for the
next big thing
and was responsible for discovering both jk rowling and cornelia funke, described hill' s book as a
glorious, sweeping debut
.
its preliminary findings, which might allow hmv to table a new bid, are expected this week. however, with the specialist bookshop business in steep decline, any new bid is unlikely to be anywhere near the price hmv was prepared to pay last year. hmv and ottakar' s have been hit by a cut - throat price war between the big supermarkets and online retailers. analysts estimate 300p - 350p is now a more likely take - out price .
heanage started searching for a potential outlet for his entrepreneurial plans. among the ideas he considered were the creation of a video player rental service for ski resorts and restaurants with bookstores. heanage' s work with ogilvy & mather eventually helped him spot a new niche, however. while conducting consumer panel studies, heanage discovered a gap in the united kingdom' s retail book market .
the cry of the icemark tells the story of a teenage queen' s battle to repel invading armies from kingdoms bordering her eponyomous realm - and win the respect of her prickly subjects while she' s about it. the book, which hill is said to have based on the memory of his late sister, is poised to become a major bestseller in 2005, with publishing rights already sold for 15 countries .
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but the book carries a more serious message, drawing on ms golding' s work for oxfam, where she joined a un campaign to reduce the number of arms in the third world and their impact on children .
the office of fair trading (oft) revealed that it had been deluged with complaints from consumers and the book industry since the acquisition by the music and dvd giant, which owns bookseller waterstone' s, was first agreed in september .
ms guy said there was a widespread perception that the decisions on which books to put on the shelves of waterstone' s were taken too often at its head office - at the expense of store managers who were in tune with local demand .
another inspiration was the political cartoons of the time .
i wanted to recreate the life and unbridled exuberance of those cartoons, the nitty gritty of life on the streets, which is why there' s boxing and gangs and the backstage of the theatre .
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principal competitors: wh smith plc; hmv group plc; surridge dawson ltd. ; martin retail group ltd. ; waterstone' s booksellers ltd. ; eason and son ltd. ; blackwell ltd. ; borders uk ltd. ; tog ltd. ; remainders ltd. ; ian allan group ltd .
by 1999, however, it became clear that the company' s expansion plans had been too ambitious. as heanage admitted to the bookseller :
the most obvious failure of 1999 was opening some shops that didn' t work initially and one that hasn' t worked at all. until then we had exercised enormous care in the selection of every single site. but the pressure of what was going on meant that we didn' t research them quite as we should have .
with its store expansion sputtering, and its e - commerce site performing well below expectations, the company found itself struggling to retain profits. by the end of that year, heanage was forced to issue a profit warning - - sending the company' s stock price plunging to just 66p per share .
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if ever wealth came to me that it should be used to establish free libraries .
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mr heneage blamed some of the decline on 2006' s later bank holidays :
easter was included a year ago, and that makes 2% - 3% difference ,
he said, but he admitted that trading conditions were tough :
the market is showing 3% - 4% growth this year but our experience is at odds with the market. growth is being absorbed by supermarkets and internet channels .
we have so many cushions, such as the health service. there was none of that for my character, which is the situation facing many children today. life is tough for most children around the world, and that' s how my characters found it .
ms golding also found inspiration in her former career in the foreign office in poland, where her tasks included twinning towns in the tatry mountains and inspecting a silesian coal mine .
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heanage began devising a business model for his proposed company. one of the features of heanage' s model was to target smaller market locations, where rents were low and his own stores would face less competition from the larger chains. heanage also sought a more restricted, specialist orientation to his shops. as he told the sunday times :
our idea was to use new technology to target customers within a specific area with a range of books that matched their interests, thus bringing a higher stock turnaround and profit .
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into the mid - 1980s, that market was dominated in large part by traditional, small - scale, and independent booksellers. while a number of national chains had begun to develop - - such as wh smith, waterstone' s, and dillons - - these chains tended to target only the largest urban markets. book shopping remained an intimidating proposition for many british consumers. yet heanage recognized the potential for adapting new bookselling formats then being tested in the united states - - which included added reading areas and coffee bars to encourage customers - - that were transforming the book shopping experience into a more informal, family - oriented activity .
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the bookshop chain slumped nearly £5m into the red after one - off costs totalling more than £7m. the chief executive, james heneage, also revealed a new downturn in trade. like - for - like sales in the most recent eight weeks were down 8. 1% , compared with a 2. 8% downturn in the year to the end of january .
the £7m one - off costs included £2. 1m of fees associated with the proposed buyout and hmv bid .
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the company closes the brighton shop; the six - store town booksellers group is acquired .
the company acquires four bells bookstores and goes public on the london stock exchange .
the company launches an e - commerce web site and launch pad concept, but is forced to issue a profit warning at the end of the year .
james heanage began his professional career in the advertising industry, working first for d' arcy macmanus, before joining ogilvy & mather in the early 1980s. there, heanage became the account director for the prestigious guinness account. yet heanage remained unsatisfied. as he told the sunday times ,
i knew that if i didn' t like the guinness account, i would never like advertising .
instead, heanage began looking for new business opportunities, adding :
i had always thought i would work for myself eventually. i was always anti - establishment - - if you believe you can do something better than the person above you, there are few alternatives. i was not good at working for anyone else .
by 1987, heanage and dunne had succeeded in finding locations in brighton and banbury for their first two stores. the new stores opened in 1988, but found mixed results. if the banbury site proved successful from the start, the brighton store was another story, and the company was forced to shut that store down after less than two years. heanage himself described the brighton shop as
an unmitigated disaster .
yet heanage remained undeterred, as he told the sunday times :
we got the wrong site in brighton. you can make a bad idea work in a good location, but not a good idea in a bad location. but i was confident that only the location was wrong because the idea was successful in banbury and it was clear one part of the equation worked .
by then, however, foreign & colonial had begun to seek to cash in on its investment. while heanage set his own goals on a public offering, for a time the company appeared a possible candidate for being bought up by a larger rival, specifically the united states' barnes & noble, then seeking an entry into the united kingdom .
fraser, ian ,
books with coffee to create a marriage made in heaven ,
sunday herald (glasgow, scotland), september 29, 2002, p. 5 .
the return to grace ,
bookseller, may 17, 2002, p. 28 .
steiner, rupert ,
disillusioned ad man turned over new leaf as a bookseller ,
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source: international directory of company histories, vol. 64. st. james press, 2004 .
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ottakar's was a chain of bookshops in the united kingdom founded in 1987 by james heneage. following a takeover by the hmv group in 2006, the chain was merged into the waterstone's brand.