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Jarrold

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Privately held company in Norwich

The Jarrold Group is a Norwich–based company, founded as Jarrold & Sons Ltd, in 1770, by John Jarrold, at Woodbridge, Suffolk, before relocating to Norfolk in 1823. The Jarrold Group still involves members of the Jarrold family.2 It is headquartered in St James Mill.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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The Jarrold Group is a Norwich–based company, founded as Jarrold & Sons Ltd, in 1770, by John Jarrold, at Woodbridge, Suffolk, before relocating to Norfolk in 1823. The Jarrold Group still involves members of the Jarrold family.2

Corporate structure

Jarrold sits at the top of its group. 3 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Jarrold St James Mill
    • Jarrold's department store Subsidiary · Norwich, United Kingdom
    • John Jarrold Printing Museum Subsidiary · Norwich, United Kingdom

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Products and brands

Primarily a retail business, Jarrolds department store in Norwich city centre, was designed by George John Skipper between 1903 and 1905. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner describes the Jarrolds store as "baroque" in style. Jarrolds have several shops in Norwich, as well as in Wymondham and Cromer.

Non-retail divisions of the Jarrold Group of Companies include Jarrold Properties, Jarrold Training, and St James Facility Management.

In 2004 Jarrold and Sons announced its intention to sell off a 70% stake of its "Norwich-based magazine printer Jarrold Printing" whose portfolio at that time included "NatMags Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harpers & Queen and Country Living" and which was also producing "IPC, Emap and the Financial Times". Jarold and Sons' "other business interests in retail, publishing, training and property" were to continue as before.

Jarrolds sponsored the construction of a new stand at Norwich City F.C.'s Carrow Road football ground; known as The Jarrold Stand, the original sponsorship deal ceased in 2016.

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Publishing activities

John Jarrold Jr. diversified the firm into publishing as early as 1823 and in 1877 it published the first edition of the children's classic, Anna Sewell's Black Beauty.

Beginning in the 1920 the firm published Discovery: The Magazine of Scientific Progress for several decades.

In 1936 the firm entered the world of paperback book series when it published the Jarrolds' Jackdaw Library and followed up in 1939 by launching its Jackdaw Crime Series.

Book series

The following series were published by Jarrold Publishers (Jarrold & Sons Ltd, Norwich) or one of its imprints, such as Jarrold Colour Publications:

From Wikipedia’s article on The Jarrold Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

  • Jarrold's department store
  • John Jarrold Printing Museum

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Timeline

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Sources

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