2007
Acquisition of Avenue in the United States.
2006
Acquisition of The Sportsman’s Guide and The Golf Warehouse in the United States.
Redcats becomes Redcats Group.
2004
Acquisition of Jotex, a Scandinavian mail-order home textiles retailer.
Brylane changes names and becomes Redcats USA.
1999
To better reflect the Group's growing international stature, the Redoute Group adopts REDCATS as its new corporate name.
1998
Acquisition of Brylane (USA).
1997
Acquisition of Ellos (Sweden).
1995
La Redoute unveils its first web site and inaugurates a new service: "Guaranteed next-day delivery".
1994
Pinault-Printemps S.A. completes its acquisition of La Redoute and becomes PPR.
1991
Acquisition of a 50% stake in La Maison de Valérie.
1988
Le Printemps launches a take over bid/share exchange offer to raise its interest in La Redoute to over 50%. Acquisition of Vertbaudet.
Acquisition of a 25% interest in Empire Stores (UK).
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1986
Merger with Le Printemps Department Store Group.
1984
Acquisition of Cyrillus.
The Group promises its customers "Delivery in 48 hours or your money back".
1983
Acquisition of Movitex.
1980
La Redoute is adopted as the Group's corporate name.
1974
Acquisition of an equity interest in Sogep which becomes La Redoute's in-house deliveries service.
1970
Finaref is established as the financial services arm of La Redoute.
It markets revolving credit facilities for consumers under the "Kangourou" brand name.
1966
Opening of the first catalogue stores under the La Redoute Brand.
1964
La Redoute makes its initial public offering on the Paris Stock Market.
1963
The company updates its corporate name from "Filatures de La Redoute" to "La Redoute à Roubaix".
La Redoute divests its manufacturing activities to focus exclusively on mail-order.
1954
Filatures de La Redoute ramps up its order fulfilment and introduces 48-hour deliveries.
1928
"Filatures de La Redoute" publishes its first mail-order catalogue with 16 pages of knitwear.
1922
Birth of the "Filatures de La Redoute" brand. The company makes its debut in mail-order retail with its first knitting wool catalogue.
1873
Joseph Pollet founds a wool mill in Roubaix and builds up a business selling worsted wools.
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