2000 - UK Manufacturing, at its Crewe factory ended[1]
2005 - Kosugi-Sangyo was the Austin Reed ready-to-wear license holder in Japan with retail value of €50 million.[2]
2009 - The Austin Reed Group acquires heritage brand Viyella
2010 - The launch of the Q Club on the third floor of the Regent Street store
2011 - Austin Reed move from the original 103-113 Regent Street Store to the opposite side (100 Regent Street)
2016 - Austin Reed entered administration. Five concessions located in Boundary Mills outlet villages will stay open following a buyout by Edinburgh Woollen Mill.[3]
Operations
Austin Reed also owned the CC brand (rebranded from Country Casuals).
Austin Reed is mentioned by Captain Peacock on the British situation comedy, Are You Being Served. Cast member John Inman had worked at Austin Reed as a tie clerk in the early 1950s.
