DFS chief financial officer Mike Schmidt is to leave the U.K. upholstery market leader for the same post at B&M European Value Retail, the company behind the value retail chain B&M.
London based designer furniture and homeware retailer The Conran Shop has received a new seven-figure equity injection.
The sales trend at Argos is improving but the general merchandise retailer still booked a double-digit drop in business in the first quarter of its 2022/23 financial year and remains down on pre-pandemic levels.
Profits more than doubled at the Ashley Wilde group last year as the Hertfordshire headquartered furnishing fabrics group delivered an eighth straight increase in revenue.
Sales at ecommerce brand Furniture Box jumped by two thirds through 2020/21 as it delivered high profits ahead of its expansion into new premises.
Container shipping schedule reliability remains at a historically low level while spot prices are falling from record highs and delays easing after a two-year stretch upended by the pandemic.
Home and leisure retail chain The Range concurrently opened two new stores this weekend to take its overall footprint to 210 nationwide.
Arighi Bianchi will supply furniture to the show homes of a new local development by David Wilson Homes, with the housebuilder to promote the properties from inside the heritage independent's iconic store.
Furniture retailer Hatfields says it remains focused on delivering an online trading platform before the end of March next year as the reopening of stores after the latest Covid lockdown helped it recover sales lost to enforced closure.
Endless, a serial backer and bidder for home interest companies over the past decade, has raised £100 million from investors as it targets a new raft of buyouts.
Construction is underway at distribution centres in Scotland and the Midlands as national flooring wholesaler Likewise Group looks to double its logistics capacity this year.
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Premium bed maker Savoir repaid debt, built cash and found gross margin gains as it worked through a bulging worldwide order book last year.
Upholstered furniture manufacturer Roger Lewis is to concentrate its activities in the contract arena following a restructuring process that sees it exit the retail sector.
Mark Eastwood MP has been appointed chair of the All Party Parliamentary Furniture Industry Group (APPFIG). The Dewsbury official takes over from fellow Conservative Mike Wood, who has led the group since...
Lee Longlands delivered on its pledge to record near seven-figure profits as it fleshed out details from it what it called an extremely positive performance off the back of lockdowns and ahead of it...
Top-of-the-market upholstered furniture maker George Smith recorded a fourth straight bottom line improvement and third consecutive profit as it traded strongly last year.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has told Carpenter and Recticel to address antitrust concerns ahead of the proposed acquisition of the business unit that includes the latter's comfort foam business.
The Ashley Wilde group enjoyed a stellar trading year in 2021 but that was only a small part of the reason for a transformation in the net worth of the business.
DFS chief financial officer Mike Schmidt is to leave the U.K. upholstery market leader for the same post at B&M European Value Retail, the company behind the value retail chain B&M.
Hypnos, one of the U.K.'s largest bed manufacturers, has appointed Dave Baldry as its new group managing director with a brief to lead both its contract and retail divisions.
Antitrust regulators in the U.K. have told Carpenter and Recticel to address competition concerns to prevent the proposed takeover of the latter's engineered foam unit by the former from being referred for a more in-depth investigation.
Pocket spring maker Wolf Components is expanding its manufacturing footprint in South Yorkshire amid rapid growth that has seen it become a key supplier to the U.K. mattress industry.
Furniture retailer Heal's has fleshed out proposals to take the neighbouring Habitat unit in central London but has confirmed the reconfigured space will not increase its overall footprint at the site.
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London based designer furniture and homeware retailer The Conran Shop has received a new seven-figure equity injection.
The sales trend at Argos is improving but the general merchandise retailer still booked a double-digit drop in business in the first quarter of its 2022/23 financial year and remains down on pre-pandemic levels.
Profits more than doubled at the Ashley Wilde group last year as the Hertfordshire headquartered furnishing fabrics group delivered an eighth straight increase in revenue.
Sales at ecommerce brand Furniture Box jumped by two thirds through 2020/21 as it delivered high profits ahead of its expansion into new premises.
Container shipping schedule reliability remains at a historically low level while spot prices are falling from record highs and delays easing after a two-year stretch upended by the pandemic.
Home and leisure retail chain The Range concurrently opened two new stores this weekend to take its overall footprint to 210 nationwide.
Arighi Bianchi will supply furniture to the show homes of a new local development by David Wilson Homes, with the housebuilder to promote the properties from inside the heritage independent's iconic store.
Furniture retailer Hatfields says it remains focused on delivering an online trading platform before the end of March next year as the reopening of stores after the latest Covid lockdown helped it recover sales lost to enforced closure.
Endless, a serial backer and bidder for home interest companies over the past decade, has raised £100 million from investors as it targets a new raft of buyouts.
Construction is underway at distribution centres in Scotland and the Midlands as national flooring wholesaler Likewise Group looks to double its logistics capacity this year.