Peters Fashions

Peters Fashions, also known as Peters of Huddersfield, is a family-run department store in the market town of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

The business has its origins in the department store Kayes, founded in 1863. Ernest Whittle was joint managing director of Kayes until his death in 1976, when his sons Alan and Peter took over. In April 1982, Kayes, citing the recession and issues with town centre parking, announced their King Street store would close in July with a loss of 100 jobs. Peter Whittle who had worked at Kayes since 1948 used his share of the business to launch a store bearing his name; Peters. The store ran successfully for many years and remained a family business. Peter retired from the day-to-day running of the company and became company Chairman in 1991. His son David and daughter-in-law Caroline took over the running of the company upon his retirement. In 2001 Wolverhampton-based James Beattie opened a department store in the Kingsgate Centre and this, coupled with losses from the cookshop and cashflow difficulties relating to difficult market conditions saw Peters placed in the hands of administrators, Kroll, in February 2006 after revealing losses of £312,000 on a gross turnover of £3 million. The Whittle family left the business and the administrators decided that the business was able to be saved and ran it as a going concern. Later in 2006 th

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