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Hayche is launching an equity crowdfunding campaign
Hayche, the furniture company led by a well-known former Made.com and Marks & Spencer buyer, is equity crowdfunding and is encouraging people from across the trade to take part.
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Willis & Gambier's Peterborough home until 2016
Samson Holding would consider selling either the Willis & Gambier brand or the entire UK warehousing operation, its finance director has said.
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Dwell founder Aamir Ahmad says he decided to step down as CEO to focus on new group projects, with the furniture retailer's parent DFS hiring from outside the sector for his successor.
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Argos added more units inside Sainsbury's stores
J Sainsbury, parent to Argos and Habitat, claims it has made market share gains across general merchandise categories despite a fall in sales in the run-up and immediate aftermath of Christmas.
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John Lewis & Partners kicked off 2019 with double-digit sales growth on the back of rising sales across all three of its main categories. Home returned to growth after five straight declines.
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Willis & Gambier is one of Britain's most storied furniture brands
Far East furniture conglomerate Samson Holding has announced the planned closure of its Peterborough based case goods division Willis & Gambier, citing "challenging market conditions with little sign of clarity."
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Sales advanced again for The Conran Shop's UK retail operation, which takes in its fast-growing ecommerce business as well as stores at Chelsea, Marylebone High Street and Selfridges.
Higher costs offset rising output at The Conran Shop as the furniture and design retailer booked a wider loss on higher sales in 2017–18.
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The main trading arm of Seconique, one of the UK's biggest furniture importers, made revenue gains as it moved to its new West Midlands home.
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Dunelm managed to transition sales from its now-closed Worldstores business to its main dot com website while store sales benefitted from reserve and collect orders.
Sales growth accelerated for Dunelm in the retailer's second quarter as it managed to transition sales from its now-closed Worldstores brands to its main website. It also said the failure of the main Fogarty licensee will impact profits.
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Annie Mo's, the longstanding Aberdeen headquartered furniture retailer, has opted not to renew the lease on its second store, at Glasgow.
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JYSK has named the locations of its first four Irish stores, all of which will be open by the summer of this year.
Danish value furniture retailer JYSK, which last year announced plans to launch in Ireland, has named the locations of its first four stores in the country, three of which will be opening in the spring.
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The White Company sells mattresses, sofas and case goods as part a diversified interiors offer
Bedroom, home and fashion retailer The White Company built out sales last year but profits fell because of upfront costs expanding two of its international businesses.
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Profits at the diversified interiors group Designers Guild Corporation fell in 2017–18 as higher costs negated the impacted of an increase in output driven by international revenue growth.
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Parlane has been delivering home accessories and gifts to trade buyers for nearly 50 years. Inset: Parlane co-directors Mike and Caroline Burgess.
Kent furniture and interiors group Gallery Direct has agreed to buy Parlane International in a deal that combines two of the UK's biggest home accents supply brands.
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AHF changed hands in July last year
Sales fell, margins narrowed and losses widened at retailer Anglia Home Furnishings (AHF) ahead of the change of ownership that secured its future last summer.
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Full price sales advanced for Next pre-Christmas despite lower instore activity
Rising online sales countered lower store activity at general retailer Next with its Christmas trading update underlining the widening channel shift at the furniture-to-fashion chain.
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John Lewis sales were just over £144 million last week
John Lewis & Partners' home categories ended 2018 on a low note while fashion and electrical items meant the retailer's overall business closed the year out on a high.
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Sales were up by a fifth at Kingstown Furniture (pictured) but fell at the group's larger Consort division
Bedroom and living room cabinet maker and distributor Kingstown slipped to a 2017–18 loss after sales fell sharply at its largest business unit Consort Furniture, which supplies major UK retailers.
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Leekes bought furniture retail business Coles of Bilston back in November 2009 with the tax treatment of accumulated losses remaining the source of a legal disagreement.
A long-running tax dispute between Leekes and HM Revenue & Customs looks set to continue after the home department store retailer said it hopes to be able to appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Glasswells, one of Britain's largest independent furniture retailers, has donated cash to the East Anglian Air Ambulance after staff members raised money during its twelfth annual quiz night.
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House of Fraser, which recently struck a deal for Sofa.com concessions to open in selected stores, has been trying to agree new terms with store landlords across its estate.
House of Fraser has walked back plans to close its Hull store after striking a late-in-the-day deal with the property owner and Hull City Council.
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As has been the case all year, bed and mattress sales outperformed other big-ticket retail categories in November, but the wider trend among other goods such as sofas, cabinets and carpets was weak
Ad-fuelled mattress retail sales remained fractionally up year-on-year in November though growth was behind the year-to-date trend. Upholstery, carpet and cabinet retail sales were all down.
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The Children's Furniture Company sells online and through third-party retail stockists including national operators
Youth bedroom specialist The Children's Furniture Company hopes to expand its product offer, marketing reach and enter new markets after securing external investment that brings with it a new high-profile chairman.
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The company behind the six-store Habitat furniture retail chain in Germany has filed for insolvency, its France based parent said in a brief statement.
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Furniture Village has expanded with 12 new stores between August 2015 and December 2017
National retailer Furniture Village captured market share in 2017–18 but said price competition was intense and impacted margins. It said it has since identified cost savings that won't hinder growth.
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John Lewis & Partners returned to growth last week on the back of higher clothing sales. Both of its other major categories, including home, failed to match year-earlier trade.
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Charlies, the Wales-based home, garden and variety retailer, says it hopes to escalate its online business after completing its move to its new 109,000sqft head office and distribution centre.
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IKEA will open its latest large format store February 7, 2019
Home furnishings conglomerate IKEA has set the opening date for its latest big-box UK superstore, at Greenwich in London.
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Furniture sales fell in the year to June 30, 2018 and remain under pressure amid challenging conditions for big-ticket categories
Furniture-to-fashion retailer Laura Ashley will shed about a quarter of its stores as its new chairman eyes a UK estate comprising showrooms that are larger in size but fewer in number.
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The Futon Company operates stores across the UK
London headquartered furniture chain The Futon Company, which has stores nationwide, further bolstered its balance sheet as it near-maintained profits in 2017–18.
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The George Henry Lee department store building in Liverpool city centre will become a luxury hotel if new plans are given the go-ahead.
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Britain imported more from both Vietnam and China
Imports of timber living, dining and bedroom cabinet furniture advanced for the first time since March as retailers and distributors stocked up at the beginning of the fourth quarter, new figures show.
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The Cotswold Company's Norwich showroom
Clicks-to-bricks furniture retailer The Cotswold Company says its business model of buying direct from factories leaves it better placed to weather cost inflation. It follows bumper sales growth but squeezed margins in 2017–18.
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Welsh cabinet furniture manufacturer completed partial management buyout in 2017.
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The Conran Shop will open its first stores in South Korea after agreeing a partnership with Lotte Department Store, a major retailer operating across the Korean Peninsula and Far East.
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Tan Sri Dr Khoo Kay Peng, the prominent Malaysian businessman who has chaired furniture-to-fashion retailer Laura Ashley since 1999, is retiring from the role and the company's board.
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House of Fraser will be challenging to turn around, new owner Sports Direct says
Department store chain House of Fraser booked early trading losses under its new owner as sales were impacted by the temporary inability to trade online.
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Home furnishings giant names second location for its new urban planning studio format.
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The diversified group behind adjustable beds and chair maker Ashley Anderson posted lower profits despite rising sales in the year to February 28, 2018.
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Big-ticket categories were absent from John Lewis & Partners list of weekly best-sellers with the retailer citing seasonal Christmas categories including Gift Food as home overall had another sticky week.
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Sterling Furniture's flagship Tillicoultry headquarters
Sterling Furniture Group maintained its upwards sales trajectory in 2017–18 with management saying the climb reflected a first full year's inclusion of the Glasgow retailer it bought two years ago.
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Leekes says kitchens, bathrooms and conservatories have been winning categories for the home department store retailer in the first half of its 2018–19 financial year.
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Steinhoff International Holdings says the outcome of PwC's forensic investigation into historic accounting irregularities will not be ready as soon as hoped, forcing it to delay releasing audited 2017 and 2018 accounts until spring next year.
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Multi-million pound property deal preceded Beales lease assignment.
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General merchandise giant Argos is scoping out the launch of an interest-free credit offer as it considers new ways of using finance to drive sales of higher-ticket furniture goods.
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Heritage brand Nathan has moved all furniture production and finishing to the Indonesian factory that has been manufacturing its entire Shades collection since 2011.
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New non-executives join DFS board
Upholstery market leader DFS has appointed Travelodge CFO Jo Boydell and 20-year retail veteran Steve Johnson to its board as independent non-executive directors.
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Sales growth disappeared for John Lewis & Partners in the week after Black Friday as the impact of launching offers earlier left it unable to match prior-year trade. Home was the worst-performing category.
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Ecommerce giant Wayfair is planning to build a larger UK distribution centre in the East Midlands as it looks to keep pace with the rapid growth of its British operation.
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Cookes Furniture's Erdington, Birmingham store
Longstanding Midlands and Dorset furniture retailer Cookes says investments made over the past three years have impacted near-term profits but helped it to diversify and broaden its appeal for the next generation.
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Pure CF has been restructured via a prepack administration process in a transaction that saves the jobs of all of the contract furniture maker's employees.
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Online sales helped boost November figures
Like-for-like retail sales dipped in November according to the British Retail Consortium with more spend transferring online as Black Friday promotions become "increasingly digital."
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Premium kitchen makers Smallbone of Devizes and Mark Wilkinson Furniture have been sold to a high net worth American investor in a prepack deal that secures the near-term future of both heritage brands.
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Contract furniture maker Godfrey Syrett has told employees that it could close one of its sites in the North East in order to secure the business' near to mid-term future.
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House of Fraser's Kendals store at Deansgate, Manchester
House of Fraser says its Kendals store in Manchester — slated to close because it couldn't agree new terms with the landlord — will now not shut after it belatedly struck an accord with the building owner.
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Beales, based at Bournemouth, now has 23 stores nationwide
Beales, the department store chain recently bought by its chief executive Tony Brown, has completed a buyout of two-store East of England retailer Palmers, a deal that had been in the pipeline since the summer.
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Wayfair, the American ecommerce giant fast becoming one of the UK's largest furniture retailers, has raised $500 million (£391m) from bond investors through the issue of convertible notes.
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Peter Green's store at Chandler's Ford, Hampshire
Hampshire based Peter Green, one of the country's largest independent single-store furniture retailers, posted skinnier profits as sales declined in the year to March 31, 2018.
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Global home furnishings retailer IKEA says it plans to absorb the cost of transforming its business over the next few years at the expense of the bottom line.
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Seasoned retail executive Nigel Oddy is to leave his post as CEO of circa 150-store home and leisure chain The Range, according to trade journal Retail Week.
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Strong mattress sales helped the home category return to growth as John Lewis & Partners posted the highest grossing week in its history in the seven days to November 24.
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Canburg, the company behind high-end kitchen businesses Smallbone of Devizes and Mark Wilkinson, has filed a notice of intent to appoint administrators, according to Sky News. Corporate filings indicate a restructure may be imminent.
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Harry Corry trades from nearly 50 stores
Sales and profits jumped for furniture and furnishings chain Harry Corry Interiors in the first period since it finished its landlord-only Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) which it had seen it secure rent reductions.
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Essex furniture and interiors retailer Roomes says it has taken steps to put the business on sound footing after a year where big-ticket sales were impacted by consumer uncertainty.
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Retail footfall fell over the weekend taking in Black Friday promotions according to Springboard, a consultancy measuring shopper numbers in different types of retail destination.
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Major independent invests in new assets and property arm delivers growth.
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JYSK, the Danish value furniture retail conglomerate, says its planned opening in Ireland next year will mean it has stores in every major European country.
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East Midlands independent retailer Swannacks Furnishers of Retford is to close after the fourth generation owner of the company decided to retire.
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The Nasons furniture store at Wincheap, Canterbury
Furniture and flooring chain AHF was one of several interested parties in taking over either the Nasons furniture store in Canterbury or its brand, according to administrator Kreston Reeves.
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IKEA, the world's biggest home furnishings retailer, says it plans to restructure its business in order to adjust to "never seen before" changes that are rapidly transforming the global retail sector.
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AO World, one of the country's largest electricals retailers, is looking to leverage its logistics network and expertise by building partnerships with external furniture businesses.
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European home and living ecommerce retailer Westwing says it is now profitable as it balances revenue growth with cost control.
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Home sales at John Lewis & Partners were down for the second straight week in the seven days to November 17, but it did write more furniture and flooring orders than the same period last year.
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B&Q's Cribbs Causeway store
The decision to pull away from kitchen fitting services was behind more than half of a fall in B&Q sales in the past three months, the home improvement giant said today.
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Having introduced occasional furniture to its product roster this summer, fashion retail conglomerate H&M has taken another step into the home category with the launch of its first UK H&M Home store.
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Alan Ward is one of Britain's largest independent furniture retailers
Four-store furniture retailer Alan Ward said 2017–18 has proven to be "extremely challenging" but maintained that continuing improvements mean it is well placed to take advantage of any upturn.
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Steinhoff International Holdings, parent to UK chains Harveys and Bensons for Beds, says commercial director Louis du Preez will become its new chief executive officer with effect from January 1, 2019.
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Beaulieu International Group, the international textiles conglomerate, says it will increase prices worldwide at its Engineered Products division because of input cost pressures.
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IKEA, the world's biggest furniture retailer, is betting on the enduring value and appeal of city centres and will invest billions on real estate developments over the next three years.
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Oak Furniture Land is hoping to make its U.S physical store debut early 2019
Oak Furnitureland, the circa 100-store U.K. hardwood furniture retailer, is close to opening its long desired first U.S. showroom, and has chosen Boston as its launch city.
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Home furnishings giant Williams-Sonoma will take its West Elm, Pottery Barn and Pottery Barns Kids retail brands to India for the first time after signing a franchise agreement with a local partner specialised in Western consumer brands.
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Loaf has been opening new showrooms including this one at St Albans
Expanding clicks-to-bricks retailer Loaf made further top line gains as it began its rollout of showrooms across the UK. Profits fell on narrower margins, investment costs and foreign exchange.
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More House of Fraser stores will close
House of Fraser is to close its stores at Norwich, Nottingham, Newcastle's Metro Centre and Lakeside Shopping Centre at Thurrock in early 2019 after rent talks with the property owned failed to yield an agreement.
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IP lawyers representing Furniture Village will make the case for an online retailer's application to trademark the phrase HomeFurnitureLand to be quashed at a hearing next month.
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Privately-owned furniture wholesaler Annaghmore Agencies improved cash generation in a challenging year that saw sales lift but earnings fall on narrower margins.
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It has more than a year since John Lewis managed to string together two straight weeks of home growth
Negative year-on-year home sales returned for John Lewis & Partners in a tough overall week that saw total sales across the chain drop by just over £8 million.
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Early export wins, dining ranges and higher sales with existing customers were behind Baker Furniture's top line growth in 2017–18, according to managing director Mark Callaghan.
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William & Sons' store at Merry Hill
Heritage West Midlands furniture retailer William & Sons has closed its doors for the final time after a long-in-the-planning orderly shutdown while it cleared stock.
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N Brown, the home shopping retailer, says it faces higher marketing costs and a potential asset write-down as a result of a "mixed" draft verdict in its long-running legal battle with the tax man regarding VAT.
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The figures include approaching a full year of deliveries from Barker & Stonehouse's Hove store
Privately-owned furniture retailer Barker and Stonehouse grew sales double-digit in 2017–18 with the impact of new stores and online combining to deliver a sixth straight top line gain.
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Sales advanced again for fitted furniture maker and retailer Ashley Ann in the year to end March but the privately-owned company cautioned it was not expecting to grow at the same level in 2018–19.
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Independent department store group Ulster Stores built on a return to growth in 2016–17 with rising sales and profits in the year to January 31, 2018.
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Britain's three biggest overseas sources of living, dining and bedroom cabinet all exported less to the UK in September with the total for the combined categories slipping 5.0 percent.
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More Argos stores have been integrated into Sainsbury's supermarkets
General merchandise giant Argos, one of Britain's largest retailers of furniture, will have 280 stores inside Sainsbury's supermarkets by the end of its 2018–19 financial year with another 30 units planned over the next six months.
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Trendsetter says 2018–19 will show an improvement on an exceptionally difficult year
Bedding company Trendsetter Home Furnishings says it has addressed a number of challenges to reverse the impact of "an exceptionally difficult year" during which it booked a seven-figure net loss.
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Divests Scandinavian upholstery and cabinet business for nominal sum.
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Maisons du Monde, the circa €1bn retailer, trades from four Debenhams shop-in-shops in the UK
The CEO of Maisons du Monde says she is not concerned regarding potential store closures at UK department store chain Debenhams, where it has opened instore studios this year.
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The retailer has invested in its store network
Investment brought instant payback for South East furniture and department store retailer Collingwood Batchellor with rising sales and profits ahead of a warehouse refurbishment project that finished this summer.
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The Hong Kong investment company that bought into British discount department store chain TJ Hughes last year has increased its stake in the company.
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It plans to leverage the IT, expertise and logistics of Modani for its Maisons du Monde test
Maisons du Monde, the French furniture and home accents retailer, is to pilot its core retail brand in the United States with a test store, tapping into the infrastructure of the Modani business it bought in the spring.
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Big-ticket sales dwindled at privately-owned stores group Oldrid & Co. in the year to January 27, 2018 as the department, furniture, home and garden store business continued to implement its turnaround plan.
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Furniture retailer The Cotswold Company is continuing to build out its bricks and mortar presence, stretching its footprint north and south with a Yorkshire unit to follow its just-opened Surrey showroom.
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Home sales advanced for John Lewis & Partners last week
Home sales climbed for John Lewis & Partners last week as the department store mutual booked its highest total sales figure for 2018 so far, passing £100 million for the first time this year.
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Half-year profits at Marks and Spencer Group (M&S) advanced 6.1 percent with the food and general merchandise retailer continuing to transition more of its business from bricks to clicks.
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Ena Shaw, the diversified North West soft furnishings business, says it has made significant progress turning its Montgomery unit around with restructuring work to complete by the end of 2018.
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John Lewis of Hungerford, the upscale fitted furniture maker and retailer, says the success of its push into the bedroom category opens the door to the division developing a 'whole home' offer.
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Dunelm acquired the Fogarty IP in 2015, and struck a licensing deal with the legacy manufacturer
Dunelm's multi-million pound investment in the historic Fogarty brand is secure despite the collapse of the legacy Lincolnshire manufacturer that produced filled bedding under the label for the national retail chain.
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Profits fell at expanding home and leisure retailer The Range with the circa 150-store chain blaming the decline on the weakness of the pound against the dollar. New stores helped sales to climb.
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Rodgers of York's new-look Monks Cross store
Independent furniture and furnishings retailer Rodgers of York has completed a three-year £2 million refurbishment project that has transformed its Monks Cross store inside and out.
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Stores represent the bulk of IKEA business but online is gaining traction
IKEA, the world's largest home furnishings retailer, says it grew UK sales in the year to August 31 driven by double-digit growth in its ecommerce business and new stores.
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Losses widened for Internet home furnishings retailer Wayfair in the third quarter despite another big increase in sales, both in Europe and North America.
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UK sales declined for Roche Bobois in the first six months of 2018 but the upscale French furniture business said the territory held up well overall because of high average shopping basket values.
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Daniel of Ealing, one of two home furnishings stores for the retailer
Revenue inched forward for WJ Daniel & Company in 2017–18 with the three-store beds, furniture and department store retailer maintaining seven-figure profits thank to asset disposals and rental income from its investment property portfolio.
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John Lewis & Partners registered its biggest sales figure for 2018 last week with sales just above £99 million in the seven days to October 27. Home sales fell for the eighth week straight.
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Stores are down, online is up for Next
General merchandise retailer Next said full-price sales advanced in its third quarter though both its stores and ecommerce channels performed below year-to-date levels.
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Business rates are one of the biggest costs for large retailers
The High Street can't be saved in its current form but there are measures that can ease the pain, Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond said yesterday as he announced a series of ideas designed to support the transition.
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House of Fraser tie-up is part of new concession journey, says Sofa.com
Upholstery vertical Sofa.com has fleshed out details regarding its concession partnership with House of Fraser, revealed by The Furnishing Report last week, and says sales across its network are beating expectations.
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Swedish kitchens conglomerate Nobia, owner of UK retail chain Magnet, says it will close an unspecified number of stores as part of a group-wide plan to save costs and protect profits.
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Habitat will open a Brighton store next month
Retail giant J Sainsbury has signalled its confidence in its furniture and interiors retail business Habitat with an equity injection that transforms its balance sheet and eliminates a large chunk of debt.
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50 as-yet-unspecified stores will close over the next five years. Its new store at Stevenage, pictured, is among the business' best-performing shops
Debenhams, the department store retailer, says it will close about a third of its circa 165-store estate over the next five years as it looks to adjust its business model to the rise of ecommerce.
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What the takeover, revealed by The Furnishing Report yesterday, means for Beales' furniture business online.
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The retailer is part way through a £5m investment programme
Sales and profits were flat for Housing Units as the North West home furnishings independent completed the first phase of a major investment programme designed to position it for growth.
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21-store Beales has changed hands
Andrew Perloff, owner of Airsprung and AHF, has sold the 21-shop Beales department store chain in a private equity backed management buyout led by chief executive Tony Brown, The Furnishing Report can reveal.
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Upholstery represents almost a third of Ercol's business
Ercol chairman Edward Tadros says new upholstery designs hit the spot last year, a period that saw the heritage furniture manufacturer make heavy investment on new machinery.
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Zara Home, the dedicated homeware chain operated by the Spanish Inditex conglomerate, posted double-digit sales growth in the UK last year as it launched an ecommerce channel.
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Nasons furniture store and, inset, how the brand is expected to change as part of the AHF group
AHF, recently taken over by Airsprung owner Andrew Perloff, is to save the large Nasons furniture shop in Canterbury, making it the southernmost store under its management.
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John Lewis & Partners recorded a seventh straight fall in home merchandise sales last week though the chain did see some big-ticket sub-categories make year-on-year gains.
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But balance sheet transformed after property revaluation.
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Kitchen, bathroom and DIY chain Wickes met with significant headwinds in the third quarter as competition prevented the recovery of higher input costs and demand faltered.
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Jarrold's retail interests include The Granary contemporary furniture store
Diversified retail and business services group Jarrold successfully refinanced more than £15 million of debt due 2019 in a year where its vast property assets appreciated in value, boosting paper profits.
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House of Fraser's Manchester department store, located in the historic Kendal's building in the city centre, is to close in January, new owner Sports Direct International has confirmed.
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Ian Topping, the former Steinhoff boss who was named chairman at The Cotswold Company earlier this summer, will simultaneously chair the home improvement chain Homebase.
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Wayfair, the expanding ecommerce home furnishings giant, has launched a customer membership programme it hopes will encourage consumers to shop with it more often.
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The summer saw a decline in cabinet imports
Living, dining and bedroom cabinet imports tumbled in August as three of the big source nations—China, Poland and Vietnam—sent less to the UK.
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Second quarter update from Studio parent Findel, whose websites generate more than £100 million a year in home goods sales.
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The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint regarding savings claims in email marketing from furniture-to-fashion retailer Laura Ashley.
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Home sales fell last week at John Lewis & Partners, meaning the broad category has seen declines in each of the past six weeks and in 19 of the past 20.
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Design company Tom Dixon has appointed Alessandro Vergano, the former chief marketing officer at Swarovski, as its new chief executive. He replaces Jamie Mitchell.
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Bargain Crazy is part of the standalone Littlewoods Clearance business
Shop Direct says it plans to close its standalone Littlewoods Clearance business unit after concluding bulk disposal represents a better alternative for clearance stock.
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Gallery Direct is headquartered at Sittingbourne
The Gallery Direct group recorded a loss last year as top and bottom line improvement at its core brand were countered by negative results from the Dreamworks business it bought in 2015.
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Northern Scotland furniture retailer Grampian Furnishers has closed its Lossiemouth store for the final time ahead of its relocation to a larger, purpose-built unit this coming weekend.
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The Frasers store in Glasgow; Photograph; House of Fraser
Sports Direct International, which bought House of Fraser out of administration this summer, has acquired the building housing the department store chain's Glasgow store.
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The design concept for Wayfair's holiday pop-up shops. Photograph: Business Wire
Ecommerce furniture and furnishings retailer Wayfair will this autumn experiment with pop-up stores in its domestic U.S market as it explores new ways to interact offline with customers.
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Online and offline sales advanced for Dunelm in its first quarter
First quarter revenue inched ahead for Dunelm Group, the national furniture and homeware retailer, as growth in its core dot com brand made up for the closure of its Worldstores website.
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Home sales—ahead at the end of the first quarter—were down mid single-digits for N Brown Group by the half-year stage as market headwinds checked demand.
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The conversion of preference shares into ordinary stock helped boost the net worth of department store chain Beales in 2017–18, a year that saw it make further cost savings as it transitions to profit.
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Walker Greenbank, the premium soft furnishings group, has begun the search for a new CEO after announcing that John Sach is stepping down following 15 years in the post.
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John Lewis & Partners said it saw more customers commit to future purchases of upholstery and beds last week, but still posted a fifth successive decline in sales across its home category.
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Hülsta Furniture owner to close component factories in move it says will strengthen operations at its German HQ.
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Furniture retailer Made.com was cash generative for the first time in its history in 2017 while a tax credit meant it recorded its best net result on public record.
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