Granville Technology Group

Granville Technology Group

Defunct	2005
Number of locations	650 (at peak)

Notice of closure stuck on the door of a computer store the day after its parent company, Granville Technology Group Ltd, declared "bankruptcy" (strictly, put into administration—see text) in the United Kingdom.

Granville Technology Group Ltd was a British computer retailer based in Simonstone, near Burnley, Lancashire.

Selling computers under several brands - Time; Tiny; Colossus; MJN - it sold mainly through mail-order, though late in its life added a chain of stores in the UK that traded as The Computer Shop, which rapidly grew to over 300 stores.

The company went into receivership at the end of July 2005, at which time it employed 1,600 people and was one of the largest retailers of computers in Britain, which were produced by the Time Factory located at the same site.

Time UK Factory

This was the main supplier for Granville Technology and was the actual manufacturer of products re-sold by Granville - Computers, Notebooks and Flat Screen TVs. The company is continuing to support consumers that purchased Time products from Granville Technology Group Ltd. The Time brand is currently licenced to Time UK.