Some History...
In 1963 entrepreneur Ahmed Pochee starts up a small business delivering bin-ends and oddments of
wine (hence our name!) to the restaurants and clubs of London's West End.
In the Seventies Oddbins, snapped up by new owners Dennis Ing and Nick Baile (father of new owner
Simon Baile), introduces Britain to the wines of Portugal and the South of France. The company
expands into Scotland, the West Country and the North West with wooden floors and wacky blackboards.
In the Eighties, Oddbins, now owned by Seagram and sporting 100 stores, becomes the first company to
bring Australian wine and Ralph Steadman onto the UK high street. Oddbins is awarded Wine Merchant of
the Year at the International Wine Challenge for the first time in 1988, the first of 12 such awards.
In the Nineties, Oddbins holds its first consumer Wine Fair in London. It's such a success we decide
to hold two each year, with one in London and one in Edinburgh.
Into the 21st Century, and we start the new millennium as we mean to continue by winning the Wine
Merchant of the Year again in 2000 and 2001. We celebrate by launching Oddbins.com and continue our
trend-setting agenda by rediscovering Greek wine.
In January 2002 Oddbins comes under the ownership of Castel Frères, one of France’s biggest wine
producing companies. Vive la différence!
On the 1st August 2008, Henry Young and Simon Baile (son of previous MD Nick Baile) bought Oddbins
from Castel and we launch into possibly the most exciting period of our history as we bring the
family connection back to Oddbins. Watch this space for updates on the new and innovative plans for
the future....we have many new products and fantastic new wines arriving and a whole army of
dedicated Oddbinites ready to serve our customers!
Donation: 2.5%
Time Frame: 30days
HappeShopper.co.uk will donate 2.5%
of your Net transactions values to charity when you click through to "Oddbins" website via a link on HappeShopper.co.uk
and buy items from "Oddbins".
You do not have to buy straight away, as anything you buy for 30 days after your first visit will
also be counted, and HappeShopper.co.uk will still make the donations to charity for those transactions.
For example, if you spend £100.00 Net (excluding VAT), we will donate £2.50.
If you then went back within the "time frame" and buy another £200.00 Net worth of goods, we will donate
an additional £5.00 to charity.
For more information about this procedure & our donations click here.
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