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Big W

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Big W

Summary

Big W is a company[1]. It draws 133 Wikipedia views per month (company category, ranking #286 of 2,787).[2]

Key Facts

  • Big W's instance of is recorded as company[3].
  • Big W is owned by Kingfisher plc[4].
  • Big W's headquarters location is recorded as England[5].
  • 1998 marks the founding of Big W[6].
  • Big W's official website is recorded as http://www.bigw.co.uk/[7].
  • Big W's legal form is recorded as company[8].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

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  • Type: Imprint[9]

  • Country: GB[10]

  • Began / founded: 1998[11]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2004[12]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 5263c586-ce6f-4833-9daa-f56737b493d5[13]

Body

Founding

1998 marks the founding of Big W[6].

Operations

Big W's headquarters location is recorded as England[5].

Ownership

Big W is owned by Kingfisher plc[4].

Why It Matters

Big W draws 133 Wikipedia views per month (company category, ranking #286 of 2,787).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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