Oswald Bailey

In these days of multi-national firms and faceless conglomerates, Oswald Bailey Ltd. Is among the tiny number of thriving 'household name' businesses to have remained a family concern for three generations. Now with an annual turnover in excess of J8 million, and more than 120 employees working in 20 shops throughout southern England and the midlands. The firm was born in 1906 when Oswald Bailey - the son of a local boot and shoe-maker - opened a tiny shop in Newtown Row, Birmingham, selling miscellaneous 2nd-hand goods.