parent jacobson group website www.dolcis.co.uk dolcis shoes is a shoewear retailer in the united kingdom that operate online and through retailers . previously they owned over 65 stand alone shops in the uk and over 150 concessions . bought by harvey jacobson of the jacobson group in 2012 they relaunched their collections to celebrate their 150th anniversary . contents 1 history 2 administration 3 references 4 external links history edit the company began life on a street barrow in 1863 when john upson started to sell his shoes on woolwich town market . business grew and from the barrow he graduated to his first store in woolwich called the great boot provider . in 1920 the company went public and the name dolcis started to appear over the shop doors . it is believed that he lifted the name from a swiss sock stamp . in 1956 it became part of the british shoe corporation 1 and in 1967 was relocated to leicester . in 1988 dolcis was chosen by british shoe corporation as the pilot company for the installation of epos equipment . in 1998 the dolcis business was bought by the alexon group and relocated to luton . in 2006 dolcis was sold by alexon in a deal involving scottish retail entrepreneur john kinnaird . kinnaird unveiled an ambitious plan to refurbish the chain s stores boost the fashionability of its products and update the brand . plans were to see 20 shops refitted by the end of 2007 another 20 in the first half of 2008 and the remainder by the end of that year . at the end of 2007 dolcis had 65 high street branches across the uk . in addition to these there were also over 150 dolcis concessions primarily within bay trading and envy stores . in 2007 dolcis began trading online . administration edit the company was making a loss of 6m a year on the sale of 62m worth of shoes . on january 21 2008 the retailer fell into administration partially as a result of the slowdown in spending due to the onset of the credit crunch which led to a recession . on 13 february 2008 administrators kpmg 2 announced that the brand name dolcis and 24 of the company s 185 shops had been bought by stylo group of bradford . 800 former dolcis staff lost their jobs and the shops were rebranded as barratts shoes . however the company reformed and relaunched its new online collection in 2012 after being acquired by the jacobson group . references edit richard davenport hines clore sir charles 1904 1979 oxford dictionary of national biography oxford university press 2004 hawkes steve 2008 01 21 . dolcis becomes first high street casualty . london the times . retrieved 2008 01 21 . external links edit sale to stylo barratt this article about a retailer in the united kingdom is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dolcis shoes & oldid 741419833 categories companies established in 1863companies disestablished in 20082008 disestablishmentsdefunct retail companies of the united kingdomshoe companies of the united kingdomcompanies that have entered administration in the united kingdomretail companies established in 1863united kingdom retail company stubshidden categories all stub articles 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 27 september 2016 at 11 23 . 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