According to the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor, UK retail sales were flat last month, at 0.0% on a like-for-like basis from October 2013, when they had increased 0.8% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were up 1.4%, against a ...
Tags: Furniture Retail Sales, Furnishing
The annual 2014 Specsavers everywoman in Retail Ambassadors have recently been announced at a ceremony in central London attended by Dame Mary Perkins and several hundred leading business figures representing over 50 retail brands. Twelve ...
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Bolton-based family-run furniture and home accessories company, Global Interiors, is set to dramatically expand its operation after receiving a £80k BFS Business Loan which is drawn from a £24m fund delivered by Business Finance ...
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Heimtextil is enlarging its offering of products and information on the topical theme of digital printing. In addition to an extended Digital Print product segment in Hall 4.0, the successful European Digital Textile Conference by WTIN will ...
Sofa.com, a leading omnichannel furniture retailer, has today opened a new showroom in central Bath, England. The 3,500 sq ft showroom is the second in the UK for sofa.com, and the first outside London. As with the London showroom, the ...
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To celebrate 25 years of furniture shows at the NEC, the all-new January Furniture Show has joined forces with Furniture News magazine to launch The Furniture Awards. The January Furniture Show will feature the UK’s biggest ...
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Marks & Spencer (M&S) has published its financial results for the half year ending 27th September 2014, highlighting growing margin and profit over the period. Group sales rose by 1% to £4.9b. First-half sales were down 6.3%, partly ...
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Following its acquisition by Lars Larsen Group, the bed store chain SengeSpecialisten, which has 11 stores in Denmark, is to become a national chain, with plans for subsequent expansion in other countries. The group, which owns the chains ...
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Leading casual furniture manufacturer Summer Classics announced that the company has signed a long-term lease for a 13,500 square-foot permanent showroom at the Las Vegas Market starting in August 2015, in concert with the launch of two ...
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The organiser of Spring Fair International, i2i Events Group, has announced that response to new developments in the rebranded Home sector has been so positive that the available hall space has almost been filled, four months ahead of the ...
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Total search volumes for home and garden grew by 15% in the third quarter of 2014 compared with the same quarter a year earlier, reports the BRC. Search volumes on smartphones outpaced search volumes on tablets, with growth of 41% compared ...
Tags: Housing Market, Garden Searches
Retail sales volumes continued to grow in the year to October, with another strong rise expected in the month ahead, according to the CBI. The CBI’s latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey of 124 firms showed a third successive ...
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Visitors to the Las Vegas Market can “experience it all,” Sunday, January 18, through Thursday, January 22, 2015, with more furniture, gift and home resources than ever before with both new and expanding showrooms and ...
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New house building figures released by warranty and insurance provider NHBC show that new home registrations have hit their highest level since 2007. The figures for Q3 2014 reveal that overall new home registrations have increased 8% on ...
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Carpetright, leading specialist carpet and floor coverings retailer, has appointed Bob Ivell as non-executive chairman with effect from 1 November 2014. In addition, Lord Harris has confirmed that he will retire from the Board with effect ...
Tags: carpet, floor coverings