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Over 160 new industry companies were incorporated in the period between September 18–24, 2023. Full list by business type.
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138 furnishings companies were placed into administration, liquidation, wound up or dissolved in the past week. Full list here.
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10 companies left creditors with £32.6 million shortfall.
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Consumer confidence for major purchases remains depressed but is on the mend, as the long-term data confirms.
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Made.com is to add two more sales channels in a further escalation of the brand's footprint following the I.P. buyout by general merchandise retailer Next last year.
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DFS earlier this month revealed it had successfully refinanced, agreeing £250 million of debt facilities across a revolving credit facility (RCF) and a £50 million U.S. private placement with one or more unspecified debt investor(s).
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Readers with a long memory will recall Silentnight achieving near double-digit sales growth in 2021/22 on the back of high demand and the unwind of a big order book.
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Complete list of all 64 countries from which living, dining and bedroom wood furniture was imported into the U.K. in July 2023, including the value of goods and year-on-year comparisons.
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Complete list of all 32 countries from which foam and sprung mattresses were imported into the U.K. in July 2023, including the value of goods and year-on-year comparisons.
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Over 130 new industry companies were incorporated in the period between September 11–17, 2023. Full list by business type.
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Complete list of all 52 countries from which sofas were imported into the U.K. in July 2023, including the value of goods and year-on-year comparisons.
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75 furnishings companies were placed into administration, liquidation, wound up or dissolved in the past week. Full list here.
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15 companies left creditors with £5.8 million shortfall.
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Earlier this month we wrote about the fourth post-Covid rescue of a home furnishings business by the saviour of ecommerce business Crazy Price Beds. Make that five.
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The closure of DFS Berkeley Magna is another hammer blow to upholstered furniture production in Long Eaton, where the majority of the 225 workers impacted by the decision are based.
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Complete list of all 50 countries from which carpets were imported into the U.K. in July 2023, including the value of goods and year-on-year comparisons.
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A generous HMRC official has overpaid a refund, and then overpaid it again to the U.K.'s one-time third largest independent sofa maker, which folded nearly five years ago.
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Over 170 new industry companies were incorporated in the period between September 4–10, 2023. Full list by business type.
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73 furnishings companies were placed into administration, liquidation, wound up or dissolved in the past week. Full list here.
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29 companies left creditors with £5 million shortfall.
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There will likely be few top and bottom line surprises when DFS posts full year results for the year to June 25, 2023 in just under two weeks' time.
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Devon bed maker posts strong profits is a headline longtime readers will be all too familiar with.
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The numbers behind the numbers at one of the country's largest home shopping groups are indicative of how rising living costs are impacting U.K. consumer behaviour.
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High-end bed maker Savoir posted its highest-ever top and bottom lines on public record through 2022.
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Nearly 150 new industry companies were incorporated in the period between August 28–September 3, 2023. Full list by business type.
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106 furnishings companies were placed into administration, liquidation, wound up or dissolved in the past week. Full list here.
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10 companies left creditors with £8.65 million shortfall.
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The fallout from the pandemic has led to a number of previously-unheralded investors coming to the fore in the home furnishings space.
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The growth of ecommerce over the past two decades opened up the total addressable market for all kinds of businesses that were previously hyper-local in focus.
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Tufted and woven carpet export data from Belgium and the Netherlands, Europe's two largest manufacturing nations in the category. Includes value (€) and volume (sqm) data for 2021 and 2022.
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Nearly 140 new industry companies were incorporated in the period between August 21–27, 2023. Full list by business type.
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59 furnishings companies were placed into administration, liquidation, wound up or dissolved in the past week. Full list here.
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13 companies left creditors with £9.6 million shortfall.
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First signposted in January, more details about the property sale and its owner are now public.
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Andrew Martin continued to grow its business with the South Wales upholstered furniture manufacturer in which it acquired a majority stake back in 2021.
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Complete list of the top 100 countries where core furniture categories were exported to in the first six months of 2023, including the value of goods and year-on-year comparisons.
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The Local Authority Districts with the highest concentration of over 16s in employment currently working in the furniture manufacturing sector, and how that has changed since 2011.
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Nearly 170 new industry companies were incorporated in the period between August 14–20, 2023. Full list by business type.
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48 furnishings companies were placed into administration, liquidation, wound up or dissolved in the past week. Full list here.
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Eight companies left debts of £17.4 million.