It is English! No, it is American! No English! No American!

Victoria's Secret is owned by Limited Brands which is an umbrella company for The Limited, Express, Victoria's Secret, Lane Bryant, and Bath & Body Works.  There may be a couple others I missed.  A friend worked for Lane Bryant in college, which is why I know.  They are very assuredly an American company.

edited to add their website: http://www.limitedbrands.com/main.jsp

(and apparently I was wrong about Lane Bryant, I could've sworn they were a Limited company....)

Victoria's Secret is owned by Limited Brands which is an umbrella company for The Limited, Express, Victoria's Secret, Lane Bryant, and Bath & Body Works.  There may be a couple others I missed.  A friend worked for Lane Bryant in college, which is why I know.  They are very assuredly an American company.

edited to add their website: http://www.limitedbrands.com/main.jsp

(and apparently I was wrong about Lane Bryant, I could've sworn they were a Limited company....)

Lane Bryant was owned by Limited but it was sold in 2001 to Charming Shoppes which also owns Fashion Bug and Catherines. I only know because I shop there WAY too much. 

Lane Bryant was owned by Limited but it was sold in 2001 to Charming Shoppes which also owns Fashion Bug and Catherines. I only know because I shop there WAY too much. 

Thank you!  I'm glad to know I'm not going completely insane.

Lane Bryant was owned by Limited but it was sold in 2001 to Charming Shoppes which also owns Fashion Bug and Catherines. I only know because I shop there WAY too much. 

Hmmm - just two weeks ago I was at a Lane Bryant store and talked to a woman working there about all the chains owned by Limited Brands.  She also works part time at B&BW, and she said they are both owned by the same company.  Interesting.   

~Liza

If you have a Chadwicks (of Boston) account card, it's good at Lane Bryant and Jessica London and Roaman's (other "plus-size" clothing catalogues).  Does that make all of them part of Limited Brands?

It's kind of like the Evans/DP/Burton/Bhs/Wallis/Topman/Topshop thing here.  A card from one of them is good at all of them.

are all the Woolworths in the US closed??

Yes, unfortunately.

I so used to love going to the diner in the one by us.  They made the best strawberry shortcake.

are all the Woolworths in the US closed??

When I read this my immediate reaction was to think that I had been in a Woolworths recently so they must still exist in the states. Unfortunately my memory is for the one I visited on my last trip over. Oops!

Hubby and I got into it once about Burger King's origins. He was convinced that it began in the UK. He also thinks Monopoly is a UK invention, lol.

which one was first Wimpy's or Mcdonalds

*goes off to search*

aahhh....White Castle

yummmmmm, White Castle!

which one was first Wimpy's or Mcdonalds

*goes off to search*

It looks like a pretty close race:   

http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/mcd_history_pg1.html

http://www.wimpyburgers.co.uk/html/history/main.html

Wimpy first appeared on Britain's high streets in 1954 under the ownership of J Lyons.

Lyons was famous in Britain at the time for the "cornerhouses" which existed throughout the country -- A chain of cafes with smartly dressed waitresses nicknamed "nippies."

yeah but I found that White Castle was in 20s...

I always thought Wimpy's was a spin off of McD's and Phil always thought the other way around

OK here's one. Is it Lacoste or Izod? When I was in high school I used to wear Izod shirts but here they are Lacoste? Are they the same?