Best & Less

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Best & Less
Type	Clothing Discount store
Founded	1965
Headquarters	Australia
Industry	Retail
Products	Clothing, manchester,and accesories.
Website	www.bestandless.com.au

Best & Less is an Australian department store chain with hundreds of stores nationally. They specialise in discounted clothing for all the family.

1 History
2 Clothing Brands
3 Stores
4 Store Livery
5 Charitable support
6 Media
7 External links

[edit] History

Best & Less opened its first store at Parramatta, NSW on 27th May 1965.

In April 1998 Best & Less was propelled into a structured new growth phase when it was acquired by Pepkor Limited - a leading listed retail group in South Africa. The acquisition by Pepkor has enabled Best & Less to grow at an aggressive pace to the current 161 stores, with an anticipated 190 stores by the end of 2008.

The current Best and Less Head Office is located in Leichhardt, New South Wales

[edit] Clothing Brands

Best and less sell a variety of clothing brands which include:

Bonds
Rio
Antz Pantz
Best and Less Essentials
Baby Baby
Kids Stuff
Top Girl
Women
Mango
Holeproof
Jockey
Hestia
Berlei
Bad Boy
Tilt
Bad Girl
Pacific Cliff
AFL/NRL Licenced Merchandise
Home Image
Salt Water
Eagle Bay
Motive

[edit] Stores

New stores are frequently opening around Australia. The newest being: Muswellbrook, NSW and Springfield Lakes, QLD and Sunnybank Hills QLD.

As of March 2007
ACT: 4
NSW: 61
VIC: 26
TAS: 5
SA: 6
WA: 15
NT: 1
QLD: 39
TOTAL: 161

[edit] Store Livery

Best and less currently uses its slogan "It just gets better" in promotion. The stores have a color scheme of a moderately toned business blue and white colour, also used in the company's logo.

[edit] Charitable support

Best and less is a consistent support of many charitable organisations, most notably the breast cancer pink ribbon day, Australian surf life saving and Sudden infant death syndrome foundation.

[edit] Media

They have recently been featured on Network Nine's " A current affair" as having competitively priced quality children's clothing. Also the store's advertisements are often shown on the various national free to air television networks.

[edit] External links

Best and Less Website

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