Department store retailer John Lewis says it expects to write more orders for big-ticket kitchens after securing several hundred warm leads at the consumer home show Grand Designs Live.
Privately owned Glasgow home furnisher Hampton & McMurray posted smaller sales and earnings in the year to end October despite an uptick in gross margin.
The opening of the first phase of the Parkway development in Newbury - now home to a John Lewis At Home store - failed to galvanise big-ticket sales last year according to major furniture and department store retailer Camp Hopson.
Underlying UK profit before tax at furniture chain IKEA dipped almost two-thirds last year as the retailer cut its prices and lost 3.8 per cent of its revenue.