Книга: Ann Summers «Ann Summers Wild Guide To Sex And Loving»
Производитель: "Неизвестный" - ISBN:9780091883997 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2009)
ISBN: 9780091883997 |
Ann Summers
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company_name = Ann Summers Ltd
company_
company_type = Private (Ltd)
company_slogan =
foundation =
location =
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revenue = £117.3 million (07-08)
£110.9 million (06-07)
£117.4 million (05-06)
£143.3 million (04-05)
£129.9 million (03-04)
£110 million (02-03)
£85 million (01-02)
homepage = http://www.annsummers.com|
Ann Summers is a British chain of
As an unlicensed sex shop under British law, it means only a small proportion of the available product lines can be sex toys and the range of pornography sold is strictly limited in both volume and content.
History
The company was named after the female secretary (Annice Summers) of the male founder (Caborn Waterfield) [http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,875718,00.html?=rss ,The Guardian, 16 January 2003] . The company has targeted female consumers with the arrival of Jacqueline Gold.
Having worked at
As her parents had separated when she was 12, Jacqueline was not close to her father. Gold also didn't like the atmosphere at "Ann Summers", which was Gold Group's "up market" clean sex shop. Jacqueline says of her introduction: "It wasn't a very nice atmosphere to work in. It was all men, it was the sex industry as we all perceive it to be."
But a chance visit to a Tupperware-style fashion party in an east Jacqueline was made Chief Executive of the company in Although the chain still has a number of licensed sex shops in The company's head office was raided as part of an After a number of years of falling sales and profits, sales have increased back to 2005 / 2006 levels of £117m [http://www.drapersonline.com/news/2008/02/ann_summers_cofounder_steps_back.html, Drapers, 28 Feb 2008] and profits to £3m, up from £1.53m pre-tax for the period 2006/7 [http://www.fmwf.com/newsarticle.php?id=1374&cat=5, Financial Mail Women's Forum, 26 August 2007] . Previously profits had doubled to £9.5m in 2001/2 [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/2117823.stm ,BBC News, 9 July 2002] , £8.9m in 2002/3 [http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=930&id=553112004 ,The Scotsman, 15 May 2004] ,falling to £3.2m in 2003/4 [http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=192102005 ,The Scotsman, 20 February 2005] - following investment in a new building and technology, dropping further to £2.2M in 2004/5 [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/consumer_goods/article708255.ece ,Times Online, 23 April 2006] . Controversy Due to the adult nature of the stores, Ann Summers has faced a lot of opposition, both legal and social. For example, when attempting to open a new store in Tunbridge Wells [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/england/kent/4189176.stm ,BBC News, 26 August 2005] , they were accused of degrading Additionally, Ann Summers in Perth was forced to close after the local people complained about the store (mostly from parents embarrassed by questions raised by their children) which also led to other problems with the store. [http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/feed/tm_method=full%26objectid=18409874%26siteid=64736-name_page.html ,Sunday Mail, 7 Jan 2007] Perth was originally the only UK town where an Ann Summers store failed to take off [http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/opinion/mailopinion/tm_method=full%26objectid=18412863%26siteid=64736-name_page.html ,Sunday Mail ,7 Jan 2007] . However, in May 2007 the Middleton Grange, Teesside store which opened in November 2005 was closed after less than two years of trading due to poor sales [http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news?articleid=2877476 ,Hartlepool Mail, 15 May 2007] . In 2002, the company was hit with a number of problems including the theft of some of its internal IT systems [http://www.computing.co.uk/vnunet/news/2117858/anne-summers-offers-reward, Computing, 5 March 2002] and a recall of its best selling vibrator [ [http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=24185 ::: u.tv ::: ] ] . The company received a letter of complaint from In 2003, the company's payments to party organisers were investigated and discussed by a number of media sources [http://money.guardian.co.uk/work/wageslaves/story/0,,892659,00.html ,The Guardian, 9 February 2003] . In 2004, two complaints were upheld by the ASA [http://www.asa.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4DCA7C6C-61C4-4836-810D-07DFD178D6ED/0/ASA_Annual_Report_2004.pdf ,ASA Annual Report 2004] . The ASA decided that the first ad was degrading to women, offensive and unsuitable for use as a poster. In the second case the ASA ruled that the use of a nursery rhyme was likely to attract the attention of children and that the advertisement was unsuitable for the medium in which it appeared. In 2006 Muslim groups complained about the release of a blow up doll named Mustafa Shag, claiming that the doll was offensive to Muslims as Mustafa was one of the names given to the Prophet Mohamed. [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/pandora/article344202.ece, Independent, 9 February 2006] In 2007, the company faced legal issues with Trivia The Notes # The jacquelinegold.com and company websites are contradictory - the former saying that a web presence was established in 1999, the latter in 1997. References External links * [http://www.annsummers.com/ Ann Summers website] Источник: Ann Summers
* [http://www.annsummers.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/categorydisplay1_40151_10238_-1_10001_Y_10238/ Ann Summers Uncut website]
* [http://www.knickerbox.co.uk/ Knickerbox website]
* [http://www.jacquelinegold.com/ Jacqueline Gold website]
* [http://www.ggi.co.uk/ Gold Group International website]
* [http://www.davidgold.co.uk/ David Gold website]
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