Hylton Riverside is a large retail park that hosts a business founded when 50 JJB Sports Fitness Clubs and the attached retail stores were purchased by who?
Castletown, Sunderland Castletown is a small village of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear commonly visited by tourists from around the world. A former mining community, the Hylton Colliery was located at the east end of the village, it lies north of the River Wear, and is near to Hylton Castle and Washington. At Hylton Riverside, on the eastern fringe of Castletown, there is a large retail park hosting stores such as Matalan, Costa Coffee, Aldi and Pets at Home, Premier Inn and a DW Sports Fitness gym. There are currently on going talks and plans to transform this retail park into a more modern and high-end park hosting a range of designer stores such as Farfetch, Apple and Waitrose to project the vision of this luxurious community. There is also plans to build a large 13-screen Odeon Cinema. Along with the range of retail establishments there is also a wide range of restaurants in the village such as McDonald's, KFC and Solo Pizza (formerly known as Mario's Pizza).
Tommy Hilfiger (company) Tommy Hilfiger, formerly known as Tommy Hilfiger Corporation and Tommy Hilfiger Inc., is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures upper market apparel for men, women and children, and a wide range of licensed products such as footwear, accessories, fragrances and home furnishings. The company was founded in 1985, and today is sold in department stores and over 1400 free-standing retail stores in 90 countries. In 2006, private equity firm Apax Partners acquired Tommy Hilfiger for approximately 1.6 billion, and in May 2010, PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH) (then known as Philips van Heusen) bought the company. Daniel Grieder was appointed CEO in July 2014, while founder Tommy Hilfiger remains the company’s principal designer, leading the design teams and overseeing the entire creative process. Global sales in retail through the brand in 2013 were US $6.4 billion, and $6.7 billion in 2014.