LK Bennett

Often referred to as Bennett LK, LK Bennett is a chain of forty-five five women’s retail fashion stores. LK Bennett shoes are among the most fashionable footwear lines. Bennett LK handbags, garments and other LK Bennett accessories are also part of the brand. Its focus is on ’affordable glamour’. Linda Bennett, from whose name the brand derives, has launched various innovative designs such as the ’kitten heel’ as well as other new designs in women’s clothing and accessories.

A Londoner, Linda Bennett graduated from the University of Reading in 1984 with a degree in Land Management. She then studied shoe design and apprenticed in this at Paris. In 1990, Linda Bennett opened the first LK Bennett shop in Wimbledon with her own savings and a bank loan. After negotiating with suppliers from all over Europe, the first Bennett LK store broke even within just three months.

Linda Bennett’s astute business policies and processes have won her and the Bennett LK brand several awards. Few among them are the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Consumer Product category) in 2002, the Best Women’s Footwear Retailer (UK Footwear Award) in 2003 and the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year in 2004. In 2007, she received an Order of the British Empire from the Queen.

LK Bennett locates its outlets with studied precision .The are Bennett LK stores from London’s King’s Road to Paris’ Rue de Grenelle reflect the most fashionable auras of each city. This shoe empire is now preparing to expand further. There will soon be six new stores, and Bennett LK is all set to launch millinery and jewelry product lines.