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The company behind East of England furniture and homeware retailer Aldiss said it entered its 2019–20 year with a bigger order book, putting it on track to grow for a third straight year before the pandemic struck.
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A furniture retailer forced to close one of its four Kent stores after the local council bought it for redevelopment has found a new site in Ashford and will then add a fifth showroom in the county.
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Lower pension costs and an uptick in revenue helped furniture retailer Gillies of Broughty Ferry record higher profits in the year to August 31, 2019.
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Underlying profits returned for the company behind regional home retailer Gardiner Haskins in a year that saw it reduce the scope of its Bristol operations by selling its Grade II listed Soapworks store building.
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Higher costs and a slight fall in sales meant profits were lower but still class-leading at South East furniture retailer Vale Furnishers last year.
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New owner of Cousins' Manchester store discloses value of investment, hopes to be on site imminently
The new owner of the 90,000sqft Greater Manchester superstore of independent furniture retailer Cousins has timetabled its plans for the site and disclosed the value of its investment in the property.
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A business retailing high-end designer furniture brands online and from premises in North Yorkshire folded last month leaving nearly 200 consumers owed an average of about £2,000 apiece.
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A Glasgow based upholstery, window-dressings and interior fabrics retailer has been placed into administration after closing its three stores and ceasing trading a week ago.
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Two of the largest privately-owned furniture and beds retailers in the South East have opted to close stores amid the unfolding coronavirus crisis, among the first major independents in England to do so.
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Andersons of Inverurie, one of the largest single-store furniture retailers in the U.K., last night closed its store to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Creditors of the no-longer-trading independent furniture retailer Holdens of Newark face an expected shortfall north of £800,000, the biggest sum being a collateralised intra-group balance.
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Ashford retailer Ashbury Furniture will close for good today (Feb. 17) after the privately-owned company suffered a downturn because of extended roadworks.
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Executive departs Lincolnshire independent for St. Helier department store.
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West Midlands and North West independent furniture retailer Cousins is to permanently close its Greater Manchester store, and will kickstart a closing down sale tomorrow morning.
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The managing director of Cookes Furniture, one of the largest independents in the country, says he is confident the market will improve in 2020 after last year proved "undeniably challenging for retail."
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Profits jumped for Ponsford, one of the largest furniture retailers of its type in the country, as the privately-owned company found savings and margin improvement in 2018–19 amid lower turnover.
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Bath furniture retailer Silcox Son and Wicks is planning a major refurbishment project at its New Street store that will see it close for the bulk of the year ahead.
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Alan Ward, one of the U.K.'s most prominent independent furniture and floorcoverings retailers, has sold its shareholding in its standalone storage business for £6 million.
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Glasswells, one of the U.K.'s largest independent furniture retailers, completed another four-figure fund raise at its annual quiz night, generating money this year for the My WiSH charity.
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Upmarket Scottish retailer Shapes Furniture, based just outside of Edinburgh, is clearing all stock ahead of its planned permanent closure.
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Taskers, the major Liverpool based furniture and home improvement retailer, says the early signs of its restructured operations are encouraging. It follows the business narrowing its net loss in 2018–19.
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The company behind the Fields of Sidmouth and Goulds of Dorchester stores in southern England initiated a cost-saving exercise in 2018–19 amid tough trading conditions.
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The closure this autumn of furniture retailer Richard Lefton Furnishings leaves creditors facing a combined six-figure shortfall according to statutory filings.
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Revenue dipped at heritage department store retailer Austins of Newton Abbot in 2018–19, ending a half decade run of consecutive growth.
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Privately-owned high-end home retailer and design company Day True has opened a third London showroom with a space in the heart of Wimbledon Village.
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Sales advanced for the second straight year at the privately-owned group behind three heritage department stores and the Slumber Slumber ecommerce beds website.
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Sales climbed at Sussex and Surrey retailer Collingwood Batchellor in the year to January 27, 2019 with the furniture and department store operator having since gone on to find additional ways to deploy its assets.
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The company behind the Elphicks of Farnham department store business and a separate bed shop in Dorking cut its net loss in half in the period preceding the closure of its New Malden store this summer.
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A return to sales growth helped 2018–19 profits inch forward for Yorkshire and Teesside based floorcoverings retailer Calverts Carpets.
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Shallower margins hit profits at South Coast furniture and department store retailer Bradbeers in 2018–19 despite continued top line growth. A property revaluation impacted reported net income.
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Oldrid & Co., the privately-owned company behind the furniture and department store fascia Oldrids and Downtown in Lincolnshire, said the acquisition last year of additional land ahead of a major new development protects the asset.
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But margin swing and higher tax charge contributes to profits halving for the three-store business.
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Privately-owned store group Oldrid & Co. cut its deficit by two thirds and slowed the rate of sales decline for high value items such as furniture in 2018–19.
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Wider margins and higher like-for-like sales order intake helped North West furniture and home department store retailer Housing Units book profits up by more than a third in 2018–19.
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A judge has sentenced Pascal Blasio, owner of furniture store Homes In Style, to 20 years in prison after he was found guilty of causing an explosion likely to endanger life and of fraud in relation to an insurance claim.
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Cash and asset rich independent further shores up balance sheet in year that saw it book a wider deficit on lower sales.
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Underlying profits declined at East of England retail, property and business services group Jarrold & Son in 2018–19 on the back of narrower gross margin.
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Figures weaken at two-store retailer.
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Fitted furniture maker and retailer bolstered balance sheet in more challenging trading year.
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How the store will look from the nearby Aylesbury Vale Parkway Railway Station.
Stokers' plans to "future proof" the Lucas of Aylesbury business it acquired four years ago have stepped up after it began work on its new 75,000sqft store in the Buckinghamshire town.
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Long-established southern furniture and home retailer discloses value of property deal following decision to restructure operations and relocate.
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Hatters Fine Furnishings, one of the U.K.'s largest single-store furniture retailers, is close to completing a six-figure extension project at its South East England store.
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Norfolk retailer Better Furniture is to consolidate its business at a single shop and online after announcing the planned shutdown of one of its two stores.
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Furniture and carpets retailer Coytes, which operates three stores in Burton-on-Trent, has consolidated at two of the sites in the town after closing a longstanding unit.
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Glasswells is one of Britain's largest independent retailers.
East of England retailer Glasswells, one of the U.K.'s biggest independent furniture store operators, booked lower sales and profits in 2018–19 because of lower demand and a weaker housing market. Cash generation was stronger.
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Howard Sudall, store director at renowned Yorkshire furniture store Christopher Pratts, retired earlier this summer after nearly 50 years with the retailer.
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Large Norfolk furniture and department store retailer Bakers & Larners relaunched its ecommerce website in a year that saw sales across the diversified group that owns it decline.
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The old and new at Hatfields of Colchester.
Heritage furniture independent Hatfields of Colchester will unveil its refurbished store front next month after a major investment at its Peartree Road site.
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The retailer operates one of the biggest destination furniture stores in Britain.
Gross margin widened and a seven-figure chunk of debt was eliminated in 2017–18 at Andersons of Inverurie, one of the U.K.'s marquee independent furniture retailers.
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Ely's of Wimbledon is one of the flagship stores in the Morleys portfolio.
Profits jumped three-fold for independent department store group Morleys in 2018–19 after the retailer made big gains from property sales.
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Barkers invested heavily improving its dedicated Home store.
The North Yorkshire company behind the Barkers Home furnishings superstore enjoyed a seventh straight year of top line growth in 2018–19.
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Balance sheet boost for privately-owned Kent furniture retailer.
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Aldiss' Norfolk stores at Norwich and (inset) Fakenham.
Profits climbed at Norwich and Fakenham furniture retailer W.J. Aldiss after a strong order book going into the period helped deliver a return to top line growth.
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Privately-owned retailer Fairway Furniture, which operates stores across southwest England, said depressed consumer demand resulted in intense price-led competitive pressures in 2018–19.
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North West kitchen furniture maker, retailer and installer Earle & Ginger has completed a prepack restructure that secures the future of the brand, customer orders and jobs but leaves creditors facing a six-figure shortfall.
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Stollers, one of the largest independent furniture stores in the U.K., returned to growth in 2017–18 with the retailer recording its highest sales on public record.
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Independent home furnishings retailer Futters of Great Yarmouth is leaving The Conge area of the town after 70 years, but hopes to find new premises from which to continue trading.
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Privately-owned furniture retailer Gillies of Broughty Ferry, which next year marks its 125th anniversary, built out sales for the second straight year in 2017–18, during which it invested in staff training and store refurbishment.
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10-store independent retailer grows sales and clears external bank debt, but profits fall.
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Proposals to build a new full line IKEA store in Lancing, West Sussex will not be squashed by Central Government intervention, local officials have been told.
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Tudor Williams' New Malden store.
Department store retailer and bed shop owner Tudor Williams has begun the last throes at its historic New Malden store as it prepares to draw the curtain on over 100 years of trade. Its other stores are unaffected.
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The company behind the Kettering Bedding Centre has suffered a serious fire that has damaged its Regents Street premises in the Northamptonshire town.
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Vale Furnishers' store in Ash Vale; Image: Google
The first full public disclosure from Surrey independent Vale Furnishers for seven years reveals it remains one of Europe's most profitable and well capitalised privately-owned furniture retailers.
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BoConcept's Kingston store, one of eight run by the brand largest U.K. franchisee.
The size of the modern furniture specialist BoConcept's franchise network will grow in the U.K. with more stores planned by the brand owner's biggest partner in the British market.
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Skandium’s iconic store on Brompton Road, one of several locations the London retailer has traded from, closed in 2017.
London based furniture and design retailer Skandium has closed its retail stores and ecommerce channel with the company poised to enter administration.
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Privately-owned heritage furniture retailer Greens Furnishers & Bed Centre, which has been trading for over 100 years, is to close after the owners' decision to retire.
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Privately-owned retailer QLM has relaunched its Yorkshire business as a quality furniture specialist after years spent serving customers in Leeds with entry-level variety home goods.
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Privately-owned department store retailer Beales could exit the North East of England after announcing its remaining store there will close later this year.
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The owner and operator of a discount warehouse in the North West selling all types of furniture has been sent to jail after pleading guilty to VAT fraud.
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Arighi Bianchi's Silk Road store in Macclesfield.
Privately-owned furniture retailer Arighi Bianchi booked lower profits in 2017–18, impacted by the board's decision to take a one-off hit in order to address its historic final salary pension scheme.
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Independent furniture retailer R. Agar & Son, better known as Agars of Whitby, is clearing stock ahead of its planned permanent closure this week.
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Privately-owned retailer Duncans of Banchory moved to larger 12,000sqft premises earlier this spring.
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Kerrys Home Furnishings, the home department store retailer which shares common ownership with bed specialist Mattressman, is to close.
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2017–18 profits declined sharply at Ponsford, one of the UK's largest single-store furniture retailers, after it booked lower revenue on thinner margins.
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Hourstons was once part of the House of Fraser estate.
Hourstons, a Scottish department store with a furniture department selling upholstery, cabinet and beds, has ceased trading and been placed into liquidation.
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How the Loom Loft is planned to look.
Loom Loft, a new purpose-built furniture and interiors superstore in the Ribble Valley, is slated to launch this summer.
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(Left–right) Longtime branch manager Gary King with Glasswells, Haverhill colleagues Linda Rogers, Janet Pead and Rachel Phillips.
Privately-owned home furnishings retailer Glasswells has paid tribute to Gary King, manager of its Haverhill store, with an award for his 40 years of service.
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Ashford County Council has paid upwards of £2 million to acquire a property currently housing a large superstore operated by HomePlus Furniture, a four-store independent retailer.
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Authentic Furniture, which has its own Long Eaton workshop and a showroom in the Peak District, Derbyshire, has added a second shop.
Derbyshire based furniture maker and retailer Authentic has opened its second retail showroom with a 3,000sqft space The Mailbox, Birmingham.
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How the planned Downtown at Home store will look
Oldrid & Co, the dual-format heritage furniture and department store retailer, yesterday (Feb. 5) won council backing for an ambitious Designer Outlet in Grantham incorporating a new Downtown at Home store.
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Glasswells' new-look carpet department at Bury St Edmunds.
Glasswells, one of Britain's largest independent home furnishings retailers, has opened its remodelled carpet department as it continues its Bury St Edmunds store refurbishment.
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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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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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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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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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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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Major independent invests in new assets and property arm delivers growth.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Browns' Davygate store in York
The company behind the Browns of York department store and others nearby has lowered its near-term debt servicing costs after consolidating borrowings.
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Two-store independent Cookes Furniture said it built sales momentum in 2013–14 and has seen top and bottom line improvement in the first six months of its new financial year.
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