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Designer furniture, lighting and lifestyle retailer The Conran Shop has closed one of its iconic London stores and separately raised further equity funding from its owner.
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An end to pandemic restrictions in Northern Ireland helped the retailer that operates Dreams and Sofatime branded stores there find big revenue growth last year, with adjusted profits also rising.
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JYSK has fired up a new partnership with online logistics marketplace AnyVan designed to boost its customers' ability to get big-ticket items delivered to their homes in as little as 24 hours.
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Frasers Group, owner of retailers House of Fraser and Sofa.com, paid £2 million in cash to rescue the business and assets of Amara Living after the embattled home and living brand had run out of alternative funding sources.
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An already-closed Edinburgh mattress retail company has been temporarily prevented from being struck off from the company register following an objection.
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Prominent Irish retailer EZ Living Furniture is planning to build and open a state-of-the-art retail warehouse in arguably Northern Ireland's premier location for big-ticket home retailers.
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Inexpensive Danish furniture retailer JYSK will open five stores in two days this month including a buildout of its U.K. footprint.
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The owner of the West Elm and Pottery Barn Kids retail and wholesale brands said it expects to register lower U.K. sales as a result of business model and strategy adjustments here.
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Upholstery brand Sofa.com maintained high double-digit margin last year despite rising costs weighing against the impact of big sales growth.
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National furniture retailer Barker & Stonehouse has shared images of its soon-to-be-finished Gateshead store ahead of its scheduled opening this spring.
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HSL has appointed Venessa Hodgson as managing director designate following the departure of CEO Guy Critchlow, who has left after over six years with the furniture vertical.
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The upholstered furniture manufacturer behind brands including Sofas by Saxon and Timeless Chesterfields enjoyed the strongest financial year in its history through 2021/22.
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The Very Group has launched hundreds of new home SKUs at entry-level prices as part of a wider expansion of its Everyday own brand collection originally introduced in the summer of last year.
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A regional logistics company offering services including white-glove two-man furniture deliveries has been placed into the hands of restructuring advisors.
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Building work is underway for a new purpose-built 1.17 million sqft distribution centre for The Range, the national home, garden and leisure retailer.
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ScS, the U.K's second largest upholstered furniture retailer, said it has reversed negative order momentum to make gains since the start of winter, though cash reserves have declined through the period.
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The number of mid-large sized furniture retailers operating in the U.K. dwindled last year as businesses either closed or reported lower turnover amid tougher trading conditions.
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Shareholders have given fresh backing to an online furniture search website that is fast becoming a key resource for shoppers who are in the product discovery phase.
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Sofa-in-a-box brand Swyft has eliminated millions of pounds of borrowing as part of a debt-for-equity swap and broader investment that will lead to TV exposure for the fast-growing upholstered furniture company.
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Kave Home, which launched into the U.K. market in 2021, has appointed a new generation to lead the company at the start of a year when the furniture and home décor brand hopes to add 60 new stores and galleries.
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Upholstery retailer Sofas & Stuff is expanding its collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) with the launch of a second collection, called Drawn from Nature.
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Direct-to-consumer and wholesale upholstery brand Sofacompany booked high profits despite margins taking a knock from the after-effects of Covid last year.
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Ecommerce furniture retailer Swoon Editions is free of secured debt after it discharged in full its obligations to an invoice finance provider that provided funding after a restructuring over three years ago.
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The wholly-owned U.K. store network of high-end French furniture company Roche Bobois delivered faster revenue growth than any other of its major global markets last year.
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National beds and mattress retailer Bensons for Beds said it achieved high single-digit underlying sales growth in the final quarter of last year with post Boxing Day sales maintaining pre-Christmas momentum.
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A South Wales based direct-to-consumer brand selling riser recline chairs, adjustable beds and other mobility aids online and from a regional store network has called in restructuring advisors and ceased trading.
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Upholstery market leader DFS has appointed Gill Barr, a former senior John Lewis, Kingfisher and Cooperative Group official, as a non-executive director.
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Dreams has appointed former DFS executive Emma Long as chief customer officer with the beds market leader also hiring its first ever head of people.
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Furniture retailer The Cotswold Company has appointed a new chairman and chief marketing officer with the company also soon to expand its store footprint.
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A prominent South East furniture brand, which under a different structure a decade ago habitually generated sales north of £10 million a year, has deleveraged through 2021/22.
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22nd store across the U.K. for national sofabed retailer.
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More hard data showing how the furniture industry was lifted by a strong post-lockdown tailwind has arrived in the shape of orders processed through the central paying agent of the U.K.'s largest buying group in the sector.
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Martin Gill, the new managing director of Vispring, will continue to run the high-end bed maker's co-owned sister retail business, whose sales director is to have elevated responsibilities to provide support.
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Britain's biggest floorcoverings retailer has been told to amend its marketing claims by the advertising watchdog after a complaint by its largest rival in the sector.
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Charlie Harrison has become managing director of Furniture Village as part of a board reshaping that sees several internal promotions and company co-founder Peter Harrison become executive chairman.
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The restructuring of a formerly-profitable online furniture, home and garden boutique based in Cheshire leaves creditors facing a potential shortfall.
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A working capital borrowing facility secured against key assets of furniture, home and garden retailer Cox & Cox has been settled.
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Ecommerce home platform Wayfair is laying off 1,750 employees in a move that cuts total headcount worldwide by about 10 percent. It said the move will accelerate its path to profitability.
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Cobham furniture retailer No44 Furniture & Fine Things has closed following a planned shutdown. Its owners intend to concentrate on other business interests closer to where they live.
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Anecdotal tales of improvement in late 2022 furniture sales were backed up with hard data on Friday as official figures put December numbers up sharply on an annual basis.
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