Hawkin’s Bazaar: What went wrong?

A BRIEF TIMELINE
1973: In Northumberland, Sid Templer set up a small mail order toy company known as Tobar – derived from his two sons’ names – Toby and Barnaby.
1976: Tobar moved premises to an old disused pub in Suffolk, formerly named the Hawk Inn.
Templer, realising that the company could save a line in their address, persuaded the Post Office that they could cope with a transition from Hawk Inn to Hawkin & Co.
Subsequently, Tobar Group became the name of the parent com