mighty type retail chain industry fashion founded hull 1956 headquarters manchester uk area served united kingdom products clothing shoes parent j d williams website high and mighty high and mighty is a clothing retail chain for tall and or wide men in the united kingdom . after having been family owned for more than fifty years it was sold to mailorder group n brown in september 2009 . 1 contents 1 history 2 current situation 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was founded in hull in 1956 by taylor bernard levy as a mailorder company . 2 the company s first store was opened in edgware road in london in 1959 as northern outsize menswear soon followed by several more stores . the company changed its name to high and mighty in the 1970s 3 and in 1979 it opened stores in new york city and stamford connecticut trading as london majesty . it was however forced to close the two us stores in 1991 . 4 in 1990 bernard levy s daughter judith levy took over as chairman and managing director 5 and in 1996 her sister ruth levy so joined as business development director . 6 by 2000 the company had 23 stores in the uk and 10 in belgium germany and the netherlands and launched its own urban streetwear brand kayak . 6 by 2008 the company started to have financial difficulties partly because of increased competition from e commerce retailers . 7 in september 2009 it went into pre pack administration and was quickly bought by the n brown group s main subsidiary mailorder firm jd williams for 1.6 million . 8 14 of the 21 stores were included in the purchase and the n brown management said that they wanted to reinvigorate and expand the chain which is n brown s first branded foray on to the high street . 8 current situation edit the high and mighty e commerce was quickly expanded following the purchase and several new stores were planned . by september 2010 the number of existing or soon to open stores had risen from 14 to 17 9 and the flagship store on edgware road had been revamped and relaunched with the new high and mighty look . 10 11 references edit high & mighty sale to n brown confirmed . drapers online . 10 september 2009 . retrieved 2010 10 29 . half century of big business . hull daily mail . 18 december 2006 . retrieved 2009 06 09 . high and mighty about us amazon uk . retrieved 2010 10 29 high & mighty ends u.s. biz . british big and tall clothing retailer . daily news record . 6 february 1991 . retrieved 2009 06 09 . judith levy cv linkedin . retrieved 2010 10 29 a b ruth levy so high and mighty . mad.co.uk . 1 january 2000 . retrieved 2010 10 29 . high & mighty administration likely as sale looms retail week . 8 september 2009 . retrieved 2010 10 29 a b 100 jobs saved in high and mighty retail rescue . yorkshire post . 11 september 2009 . retrieved 2010 10 29 . high and mighty store locator retrieved 2010 10 29 high and mighty revamps london flagship store plus size tall 23 august 2010 . retrieved 2010 10 29 red c create a new look for high and mighty red c 26 march 2010 . retrieved 2010 10 29 external links edit high and mighty site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title high and mighty clothing & oldid 695207784 categories clothing retailers of the united kingdomcompanies established in 1956defunct companies of kingston upon hull navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 december 2015 at 14 13 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view