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Article: Room for another in UK sex industry? (News Analysis).(Beate Uhse to launch operations in the UK)
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- Marketing Week
- Article date:
- November 7, 2002
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German sex shop chain Beate Uhse believes the sexually liberated UK is ready for it. But although the mainstream sex industry is thriving, that doesn't mean the British have an appetite for another Ann Summers.
A German sex invasion is storming the UK from the unlikely bridgehead of Sutton in Surrey, the site for a new sex shop chain called Beate Uhse. The German chain hopes to capitalise on a change in attitudes towards sex in the UK. Once renowned for being sexually repressed, the British are now seen as ready, willing and able to welcome a new chain plying risque underwear and adult objects. So much so that the German chain has positioned its first UK outlet ...