Audax vs Next plc

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Audax is the older of the two, founded in 1958 — 24 years before Next plc.

Founded: 1958; 1982
Status: Active; Active
Headquarters: Gilze, Netherlands; Leicester, United Kingdom
Industry: retail; retail
Founders: Jacques de Leeuw; Joseph Hepworth
Legal form: besloten vennootschap; public limited company
Listed on: Not recorded; London Stock Exchange
Website: audax.nl; next.co.uk

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Audax and Next plc.