Heritage bed manufacturer Millbrook Beds has new owners after the founding Croll family agreed to sell the Southampton manufacturer to concentrate on their other expanding business interests.
The Very Group, one of the top ten retailers of furniture in the U.K. by volume, has appointed a former Walmart leader as its new chief executive, replacing Henry Birch who will stand down in the autumn.
Furniture and homeware retailer Made.com has appointed former supermarket and tech executive Dan Elton as its first ever chief customer officer.
Stakeholders have until Monday of next week to come up with a solution that will appease the U.K.'s antitrust regulator.
La-Z-Boy U.K. is sponsoring a family-friendly music festival taking place in the Lake District later this month where headline acts include Stereophonics, Supergrass and The Kooks.
London based designer furniture and homeware retailer The Conran Shop has received a new seven-figure equity injection.
The sales trend at Argos is improving but the general merchandise retailer still booked a double-digit drop in business in the first quarter of its 2022/23 financial year and remains down on pre-pandemic levels.
Profits more than doubled at the Ashley Wilde group last year as the Hertfordshire headquartered furnishing fabrics group delivered an eighth straight increase in revenue.
Sales at ecommerce brand Furniture Box jumped by two thirds through 2020/21 as it delivered high profits ahead of its expansion into new premises.
Container shipping schedule reliability remains at a historically low level while spot prices are falling from record highs and delays easing after a two-year stretch upended by the pandemic.
Home and leisure retail chain The Range concurrently opened two new stores this weekend to take its overall footprint to 210 nationwide.
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On the day that two listed furniture retailers announced senior hires and departures the market was again unkind.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has told Carpenter and Recticel to address antitrust concerns ahead of the proposed acquisition of the business unit that includes the latter's comfort foam business.
Heritage bed manufacturer Millbrook Beds has new owners after the founding Croll family agreed to sell the Southampton manufacturer to concentrate on their other expanding business interests.
The founder and CEO of Sofas & Stuff says the expanding upholstery retailer will build on growth last year with more good results in 2022 despite a weakening market.
DFS chief financial officer Mike Schmidt is to leave the U.K. upholstery market leader for the same post at B&M European Value Retail, the company behind the value retail chain B&M.
Hypnos, one of the U.K.'s largest bed manufacturers, has appointed Dave Baldry as its new group managing director with a brief to lead both its contract and retail divisions.
Antitrust regulators in the U.K. have told Carpenter and Recticel to address competition concerns to prevent the proposed takeover of the latter's engineered foam unit by the former from being referred for a more in-depth investigation.
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The Very Group, one of the top ten retailers of furniture in the U.K. by volume, has appointed a former Walmart leader as its new chief executive, replacing Henry Birch who will stand down in the autumn.
Furniture and homeware retailer Made.com has appointed former supermarket and tech executive Dan Elton as its first ever chief customer officer.
Stakeholders have until Monday of next week to come up with a solution that will appease the U.K.'s antitrust regulator.
La-Z-Boy U.K. is sponsoring a family-friendly music festival taking place in the Lake District later this month where headline acts include Stereophonics, Supergrass and The Kooks.
London based designer furniture and homeware retailer The Conran Shop has received a new seven-figure equity injection.
The sales trend at Argos is improving but the general merchandise retailer still booked a double-digit drop in business in the first quarter of its 2022/23 financial year and remains down on pre-pandemic levels.
Profits more than doubled at the Ashley Wilde group last year as the Hertfordshire headquartered furnishing fabrics group delivered an eighth straight increase in revenue.
Sales at ecommerce brand Furniture Box jumped by two thirds through 2020/21 as it delivered high profits ahead of its expansion into new premises.
Container shipping schedule reliability remains at a historically low level while spot prices are falling from record highs and delays easing after a two-year stretch upended by the pandemic.
Home and leisure retail chain The Range concurrently opened two new stores this weekend to take its overall footprint to 210 nationwide.