Beaverbrooks

**Beaverbrooks the Jewellers**
Type	Private
Industry	Retail
Founded	1919
Founder(s)	Issac,Maurice and Harry Adlestone
Headquarters	St Annes on Sea, UK
Number of locations	65
Products	Jewellery
Employees	800
Website	Beaverbrooks Website

Beaverbrooks is a British jeweller. Established in 1919, with the opening of its first store in Belfast and still a family-owned business, with direct descendants of the founders, (the fourth and fifth generations of the Brown and Adlestone families),the custodians.

Awards and recognition

Beaverbrooks staff are the most content in the country, according to the Sunday Times topping the newspaper’s annual rankings of the ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ in 2009 and have appeared in the top four since 2004.

1st in the Sunday Times' 'Best Companies to Work for' 2009 ^[1]
Best Workplace in Europe 2008 ^[2]
UK Jewellery Awards- Multiple Retailer of the Year, Retail Employer of the Year ^[3]

References

^ [1]
^ "About Us - Beaverbrooks the Jewellers". Beaverbrooks.co.uk. http://www.beaverbrooks.co.uk/index.cfm?event=showAboutUs. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
^ "News - Beaverbrooks the Jewellers". Beaverbrooks.co.uk. 2010-03-08. http://www.beaverbrooks.co.uk/index.cfm?event=news.showNewsArticle&articleID=109. Retrieved 2010-08-04.