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• Restructured Dwell enters new phase as DFS focuses on core brands

  DFS, the U.K.'s largest upholstery retailer, has been building an arsenal of storied brands to attack the furniture market in recent years.

• Britain's biggest carpet maker found growth in falling market last year

  Cormar Carpets said sales grew in a declining market in 2019 with the business also enjoying a strong pickup in demand after the lockdown earlier this year.

• ScS records skinny deficit despite two-month lockdown

  Upholstery and flooring retailer ScS said business has rebounded strongly since lockdown to limit the impact on full-year results to July 25 and put it on track for growth in 2020–21.

• John Lewis puts Home at heart of new TV advertising

  Department store retailer John Lewis & Partners has put its furniture and home offer at the centre of its new television advertising campaign for autumn 2020.

• Tempur Sealy promotes Tobin James to lead newly-formed Northern Europe region

  Mattress giant Tempur Sealy International has promoted Tobin James amid a raft of appointments including a strengthening of its senior leadership team in the U.K.

• U.K. furniture executives to launch Online Furniture Show this autumn

  Three well-known furniture professionals will this autumn launch the inaugural Online Furniture Show and are urging retailers and suppliers from across the U.K. and international trade to participate.

• Politicians, retailers and makers quick to back Buy British Furniture campaign

  Stakeholders spanning furniture and bed retailers, manufacturers and an MP have coalesced around the British Furniture Confederation's (BFC) month-long campaign to promote British-made furniture.

• Mattress sales hold, profits rise for Belfield despite 25% revenue fall from largest group customer

  The Belfield Group, owner of Westbridge Furniture, Tetrad and one of the U.K.'s largest mattress factories, booked higher consolidated profits in 2019 despite a fall in group-wide revenue.

• Autumn Furniture Show cancelled as venue says it cannot host event

  The Autumn Furniture Show, the exhibition that had been due to kickstart the return of mass gatherings in the U.K. furnishings sector in under a fortnight's time, has been cancelled.

• One of biggest threats to Dreams' market dominance just disappeared

  Every retailer faces a shared threat at the minute, but perhaps the biggest medium-term obstacle to Dreams' continued market leadership in the beds category has now been eliminated, thanks to its owner.