Question: What consumer reporting agency was originally a part of the United Kingdom retailing group Great Universal Stores?
Context: Ardwick Hall was the home of linen merchant Robert Hyde, uncle to British textile mill owner Samuel Greg(1758–1834).  It was located in Manchester.  A Great Universal Stores warehouse now stands on the spot. Experian plc is a consumer credit reporting agency.  Experian collects and aggregates information on over one billion people and businesses including 235 million individual US consumers and more than 25 million US businesses.  Based in Dublin, Ireland, the company operates in 37 countries with headquarters in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Brazil.  The company employs approximately 17,000 people and reported revenue for 2016 of US $4.6 billion.  It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.  Experian is a partner in the UK government's Verify ID system and USPS Address Validation.  It is one of the “Big Three” credit-reporting agencies, alongside TransUnion and Equifax. The Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 (“FCRA”) is U.S. Federal Government legislation enacted to promote the accuracy, fairness, and privacy of consumer information contained in the files of consumer reporting agencies.  It was intended to protect consumers from the willful and/or negligent inclusion of inaccurate information in their credit reports.  To that end, the FCRA regulates the collection, dissemination, and use of consumer information, including consumer credit information.  Together with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA"), the FCRA forms the foundation of consumer rights law in the United States.  It was originally passed in 1970, and is enforced by the US Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and private litigants. A credit bureau is a collection agency that gathers account information from various creditors and provides that information to a consumer reporting agency in the United States, a credit reference agency in the United Kingdom, a credit reporting body in Australia, a credit information company (CIC) in India, Special Accessing Entity in the Philippines, and also to private lenders.  It is not the same as a credit rating agency. Innovis is a provider of consumer data solutions and is considered a CRA (also known as a "Consumer credit reporting agency") in the United States, the other three being Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.  Most sources of information about consumer credit repair seldom mention either Innovis or PRBC, a fifth agency, as of 2013. A credit freeze, also known as a credit report freeze, a credit report lock down, a credit lock down, a credit lock or a security freeze, allows an individual to control how a U.S. consumer reporting agency (also known as credit bureau: Equifax, Experian, TransUnion, Innovis) is able to sell his or her data.  The credit freeze locks the data at the consumer reporting agency until an individual gives permission for the release of the data.  Today, credit freezes are made possible by state laws as well as industry-initiated rules.  Laws have been passed by nearly all the US states (see partial list below).  The first state to pass a credit freeze law was California, with SB 1386 sponsored by Debra Bowen in 2003.  In late 2007, all three of the major credit bureaus (following TransUnion's lead) announced that they would let consumers freeze their credit reports, regardless of the state of residency.  State laws still apply, however, in instances where the cost or other details of the freeze are more favorable than they are under the industry-sponsored alternative. GUS plc was a FTSE 100 retailing group based in the United Kingdom.  GUS is an abbreviation of Great Universal Stores, the company's name before 2001.  On 10 October 2006, the company was split into two separate companies: Experian which continues to exist, and Home Retail Group which was bought by Sainsbury's in 2016. Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet FRS ( ; 17 September 1897 – 20 June 1991) was a Scottish businessman and philanthropist.  He was managing director of Great Universal Stores (G.U.S. or Gussies) 1932–1947 and chairman 1947–1987.  He established the Wolfson Foundation to distribute most of his fortune to good causes.  Great Universal Stores was a mail order business.  He joined the company as a merchandising controller in 1932, becoming joint managing director in the same year.  The company was in trouble when he joined but he turned it round and made it into a very strong business and the principal source of his wealth.  He also had other successful business ventures.  He was succeeded by his son Leonard Wolfson. John R. W. Cracken is an American trial lawyer and private investor based in Dallas, Texas.  He is the managing partner of The Cracken Law Firm PC.  In 2010, Cracken and his co-counsel filed 69,608 individual actions in Texas state court on behalf of 69,608 consumers against the consumer reporting agency, Trans Union.  This was reported by some as the largest mass filing, by a single law firm, in American history.  DLA Piper represented Trans Union in the mass filing and in 2011 the matter settled for approximately $27 million.  In 2009, Cracken and his co-counsel filed three mass actions in New Mexico state court on behalf of 123 customers against certain directors, officers, and employees of then-bankrupt Eclipse Aviation Corp.  The employees were represented by a variety of law firms, including Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  The matter was settled in 2012 for approximately $41 million.  Cracken normally litigates class actions and mass actions. Collaro was the name of a major early British manufacturer of gramophones, record players, and tape decks, throughout the early years of sound reproduction.  The company was founded in Barking, Essex, 1920, as Collaro Ltd, and was a private company in 1924.  In 1961 it was described as the largest manufacturers of record changers in the United Kingdom, and also manufactured fan heaters.  In 1960 it was reported in US publication 'Billboard' that the President of the American Magnavox corporation, Frank Freimann had announced the 'acquisition' of Collaro, along with managing director of Collaro, Isaac Wolfson.  However, he is also reported as noting that "the linking of the two firms carries not only product but distribution ramifications," which suggests some sort of cooperative alliance with acquisition of selling rights rather than a total 'buy-out'.  Isaac Wolfson, a major British industrialist, was at the time also the head of Great Universal Stores, a large chain of retail outlets throughout Britain, Continental Europe, and the British Empire, suggesting perhaps that an earlier link-up took place between Wolfson and the originators of Collaro.  The record decks comprised the mechanical unit incorporating a turntable and pickup, without electronics, and were built into many manufactured and home-constructed record players of the time.  Magnavox were acquired by Philips in 1974.
Answer: Experian