Buying group Associated Independent Stores (AIS) has announced its annual award winners, which were presented at the group's September furniture and furnishing accessories show. In addition to the bed and bedroom cabinet supplier awards ...
Tags: furniture, furnishing accessories, AIS
House of Fraser has updated the market on the performance of its parent company, Highland Group Holdings, for the 53 weeks to 31st January 2015. The retailer has announced record sales, up 5.8% on a like-for-like 52 week basis (excluding ...
Tags: House of Fraser, Furniture
Arvind Lifestyle, which acquired the Indian franchise rights of UK retail chain Debenhams in 2012, is planning to shutdown the Debenhams stores in India and work on a new strategy. Arvind Lifestyle, a subsidiary of denim major Arvind ...
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Gap Inc. has decided to close its Piperlime brand, including the online platform and single store in New York, by the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2015. The company is committed to executing against its long-term strategy of ...
From left: Jamie Byrne, Mohawk's senior vice president of hard surface sales, Mike and Tommy Hughes of Kelly’s Carpet and Jeff Meadows, Mohawk's senior vice president of soft surface sales. Kelly's Carpet is one of the two Decorate ...
Tags: soft surface, Construction
The Running Specialty Group (RSG) has acquired Kansas City-based Garry Gribble’s Running Sports, which operates five locations and expands RSG’s national footprint to Kansas and Missouri. “Garry is a true legend in this ...
Yamaha and West Coast Hi-Fi have opened the first Yamaha Sound Centre. Yamaha and West Coast Hi-Fi celebrated the opening of Australia’s first Yamaha Sound Centre on Saturday 22 February 2014. This store-in-store branded concept is ...
Sofa giant CSL has completed a wholesale rebrand as it revealed it is on target to reach sales of £100m for the first time. By Christmas all 26 of the firm's stores will be operating as Sofaworks as part of the family-owned retailer's ...
Tags: Sofa, Furniture, Furnishing
Chinese online apparel and accessory retailer Mecox Lane Ltd. (NASDAQ: MCOX) reported a net loss of USD 6.2 million for the quarter ended June 30 this year. It released unaudited financial results for the quarter on August 14 and ...
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Being blessed with so many different and unique properties, it is not only the Acrylic Furniture that is in high demand today but even the aircraft's and space shuttles are also being made using components that have been fabricated from ...
MID Retail Inc. announced that A'GACI has selected its Advanced Merchandise Planning and Advanced Allocation software to intelligently manage merchandising operations as A'GACI continues its rapid growth. "A'GACI is accelerating its ...
Tags: Textile
GE Lighting will provide a complete energy-efficient lighting solution for the Cirebon Superblock Mall located in West Java, Indonesia. More than 600 light points will be fitted with the LED Tetra and CMH systems to create a welcoming ...
Tags: GE Lighting, Lights, Lighting
Regional US supermarket group and food distributor Spartan Stores has booked an increase in third-quarter earnings. Net profit in the three months to the end of December amounted to US$5.2m, a 2% increase on the prior-year period. ...
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Smartphones running on a mobile version the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system could arrive as early October this year, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Linux OS vendor Canonical, told the ...
For the 14 week period to December 29th 2012, ex VAT sales for the Group were +4.5% and for the UK were +4.0% and +3.7% LFL. Additionally gross margin was significantly ahead of last year as a result of tight management of stock, and lower ...
Tags: ex VAT sales, New Look, online sales, company news