shop window display with company logo type limited company industry home furnishing founded 13 april 1993 1993 04 13 founder cath kidston headquarters london england website www.cathkidston.co.uk cath kidston limited is an international chain of home furnishing retail stores based in england registered with companies house number 02808583 on 3 april 1993 . 1 designer cath kidston opened her first shop in london s holland park in 1994 2 selling hand embroidered tea towels and brightly renovated furniture . 3 she later described it as just a glorified junk shop . 3 in april 2011 there were 41 shops and concessions in the uk two in the republic of ireland eleven in japan and three in korea . 2 less than three years later there were 136 outlets including a flagship store on piccadilly next to fortnum & mason and four stores in china . 4 appearing on bbc radio 4 s desert island discs programme she described her shops as provoking a marmite reaction people either love it and want a little bit of it very much or want to stab us . . 5 the company s profits jumped more than 60 per cent from 2.9 million to 4.6 million in the year to march 2009 . 3 sales rose to 31.3 m during the period compared with 19.3 m the year before 3 partly due to new store openings . 3 in 2010 cath kidston sold a majority stake of the company to private equity investors ta associates 6 retaining a minority stake and remaining the company s creative director . 6 in october 2016 ta associates sold its stake to baring private equity asia for an undisclosed amount . the transaction saw chairman paul mason replaced by william flanz former chairman and executive of gucci group . 7 references edit cath kidston limited opencorporates . opencorporates . 2011 03 11 . retrieved 29 april 2011 . a b about cath kidston . cath kiston limited . archived from the original on 2 january 2011 . retrieved 29 april 2011 . a b c d e hale beth 2010 02 23 . cath kidston to pocket 30m from sale of brand 20 years after shop assistant created famous nostalgic designs . mail online . london . retrieved 29 april 2011 . garside juliette 6 december 2013 . cath kidston could fetch up to 250m . the guardian . retrieved 14 april 2014 . desert island discs cath kidston bbc . bbc . 2010 04 29 . retrieved 29 april 2011 . a b hall james 2010 12 05 . cath kidston plans far east push telegraph . the daily telegraph . london . retrieved 29 april 2011 . vandevelde mark 2016 10 03 . cath kidston sold to baring asia . financial times . issn 0307 1766 . retrieved 2016 10 04 . external links edit cath kidston limited retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cath kidston limited & oldid 742577510 categories 1993 establishments in englandretail companies of englandcompanies based in londonhidden categories use dmy dates from april 2011 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 in other projects wikimedia commons languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 14 41 . 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