Arcadia’s famous brands: How they grew to dominate the high street
Topshop is arguably the most recognisable of Arcadia’s current brands but grew from the humble beginnings of the basement floor of a Sheffield department store.In 1964, the brand started life as a concession line called Peter Robinson’s Top Shop as the department store chain sought new sales with younger customers.The new line quickly became popular with large concessions across the nationwide department store chain, before bagging the first standalone Topshop in 1970.In the same year, it launched the Topman brand which soon garnered its own rapidly expanding network of stores.In 1992, Topshop and Topman joined forces to open their flagship store on Oxford Street, which claimed at the time to be the largest fashion store in the