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Furniture retail price inflation remains at historic elevated levels but still eased to its lowest mark since December 2021 last month as some upward pressures eased.
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Upholstered furniture imports into the U.K. climbed at the start of the final quarter of 2022 despite continued sluggish figures from China.
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Britain's advertising watchdog has upheld a complaint regarding savings claims made in advertising by Happy Beds, the online bed retailer based in West Yorkshire.
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Multinational furniture retailer King Living has doubled its U.K. store footprint with the launch of a second showroom in the South East of England.
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The value of carpet imported into the U.K. climbed for the second straight month in October but volumes continued to slide.
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Bensons for Beds is partnering homelessness charity Crisis via a series of initiatives spanning donations from mattress sales to fundraising and volunteering.
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G Plan is collaborating with British furniture restorer and television presenter Jay Blades for an upholstery and cabinet collection designed to take the brand to a wider customer profile.
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Italian upholstery supplier Nicoletti Home is to introduce a new gallery concept to customers next month as it looks to further cement its presence in the U.K., where sales have trebled since the start of the pandemic.
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Improvement in warehouse picking boosts online sales while overall turnover climbs beyond £70 million for Wales headquartered retail chain.
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Upmarket fitted furniture vertical John Lewis of Hungerford marked its 50th anniversary with record sales and even higher order levels, though profits declined on rising costs.
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Peter Harrison says a lifelong ambition has been realised after the shares of BGF and other minority shareholders were acquired in a transaction that gives the family 100 percent control of the business for the first time in its 33-year history.
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Bed maker Sleepeezee says it has made further top line gains in 2022 so far while it has also agreed new finance facilities that give it an increased liquidity buffer.
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A historic sofa manufacturer that also sells branded upholstery from its large retail showrooms in Buckinghamshire has filed a notice of intent (NOI) to appoint an administrator.
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The South Yorkshire cabinet maker behind the Spaceslide and Spacepro bedroom furniture brands is not impacted by the insolvency of the kitchen retail business it bought six years ago.
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British furniture makers' turnover growth accelerated at the start of the fourth quarter despite the uplift in exports being the weakest since February 2021.
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A Derbyshire kitchens business has folded without warning after taking almost £350,000 of deposits, leaving orders unfulfilled and consumers facing a challenge to recoup funds.
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RH, the high-end luxury furniture retailer launching its debut U.K. store in a £28 million Cotswolds country pile next year, has re-timelined the opening of its follow-on gallery in London.
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A West Yorkshire mattress company has been compelled to change its corporate name following a legal challenge by one of the U.K.'s largest bed makers.
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Mohawk Industries, the world's largest flooring company, found top and bottom line growth at its largest U.K. business unit last year as it integrated the buyout of a Cambridgeshire wholesaler.
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West Midlands supplier to the U.K. upholstered furniture manufacturing sector books strong profits.
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Upholstered furniture vertical Natuzzi has found a successor to chief financial officer Vittorio Notarpietro after a near 12-month search for a replacement.
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The large U.K. affiliate of a South Asian distributor of bedding, quilts and other household textiles has been placed into administration after it succumbed to cashflow problems amid creditor pressure.
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Profits declined for the online dining furniture retailer behind the Atlantic Shopping ecommerce brand last year as a slump in sales revenue combined with a big drop in gross margin.
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Privately-owned department store retailer Fenwick will close its New Bond Street store in central London in just over a year's time after agreeing to sell the building to property developers.
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Southern Italian upholstered furniture brand Egoitaliano has a second U.K. monobrand store after a partner launched a new flagship showroom in Surrey.
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Furniture and homewares retailer Loaf is partnering St Mungo's, a charity working to end homelessness and transform the lives of people facing and experiencing homelessness in the U.K.
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The Cornish Bed Company has been awarded the Manufacturing Guild Mark from The Furniture Makers’ Company, the City of London livery company and charity for the furnishing industry.
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Vida Living, one of the largest suppliers of furniture to the U.K. market, found big sales growth last year but profits declined as rising input costs meant gross margin narrowed.
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The family owners of Latexco, the Belgium based maker of finished and semi-finished bedding products and components, have agreed to sell the business to a compatriot industrialist.
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The managing director of national furniture retailer Barker and Stonehouse has praised staff for a range of initiatives that has led to it cutting its energy usage by over a third in the past quarter.
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Furniture and soft furnishings retailer Harry Corry recorded its highest profits in four years as a return to top line growth combined with interest income and a lower tax bill.
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An alternative finance provider to dozens of furniture industry enterprises could follow its parent company into administration according to a new court filing.
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The California company behind the Nectar mattress brand funded further U.K. growth last year ahead of a buildout of its direct-to-consumer business model into wholesale.
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There has been management and shareholder change at a North West England ecommerce mattress business widely hailed for its SEO credentials.
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Bensons for Beds is remodelling one and opening a further two new stores before Christmas including a unit on the mezzanine floor at one of Natuzzi Editions' southeast showrooms.
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Trade association British Furniture Manufacturers (BFM) is launching a new campaign to highlight the value and variety of careers available within the industry, as well as showcasing the steps the sector is taking to support sustainable manufacturing.
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Upholstered furniture manufacturer Lebus appointed a finance director designate ahead of the retirement of longtime finance director Darrell Bettany last month.
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Loan note holders have agreed not to seek the repayment of tens of million of pounds of debt due from The Cotswold Company should doing so be prejudicial to the furniture retailer's ongoing prospects.
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Privately-owned furniture and home retailer Sterling booked its biggest bottom line since 1998 in the year to February 28, 2022 as it benefitted from investment in stores and post-lockdown tailwinds.
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The Garden Trading Company, the ecommerce and wholesale furniture, home and garden company, was not sold to general merchandise giant Next as part of the £41 million buyout of Joules Group assets and its headquarters last week.
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The manufacturing and import company behind the Bedmaster brand booked lower profits last year despite a rise in sales.
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A Staffordshire ecommerce business majoring in screen printed household textiles and other homewares has been placed into liquidation leaving creditors facing a seven-figure shortfall.
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Frasers Group, owner of House of Fraser and Sofa.com, has acquired upmarket homewares brand Amara in a deal brokered by restructuring advisors.
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Chris Muir, chief financial officer at ScS for the past six years, is to leave the sofa and carpets retailer, sparking a search for a successor.
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The private equity backed group that owns custom fitted furniture maker Neville Johnson paid eight-figure dividends to shareholders in a period when it agreed extended borrowing and saw trading profits fall.
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Upholstery and curtain fabrics wholesaler Fryett's booked larger profits through 2021/22 as the easing of Covid restrictions aided demand for its products.
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Quick-ship sofa-in-a-box brand Snug has launched The Maverick, its first fully modular and customisable upholstery programme.
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General merchandise retailer Next has partnered Tom Joule to acquire the majority of the assets of lifestyle brand Joules out of administration in two transactions worth a total of £41 million.
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Revenue continued to trend upwards for Likewise Group during mid–late autumn as growth accelerated for the floorcoverings supplier through October and November.
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The January Furniture Show returns at the NEC in Birmingham next month (Jan. 22–25, 2023) with an expanded international exhibitor roster and a series of new partnerships.
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Direct-to-consumer and wholesale mattress company Emma Sleep is being investigated by the U.K.'s antitrust regulator over concerns some of its online sales practices may have breached consumer law.
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The South Wales sofa manufacturer that sold a majority stake to Halo Group's Andrew Martin International business last autumn rebuilt employee numbers to pre-pandemic levels in the past year.
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Spring maker Wolf Components will assemble its pocket units utilising polymer-based glue from the start of 2023 in a move it says will deliver significant recyclability improvements.
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A South East courier company offering next-day parcel delivery including bulky items such as furniture flatpacks has filed a notice of intent (NOI) to appoint administrators.
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3CAD, a visual configure, price, quote (CPQ) software provider, has joined The Furniture Makers’ Company, the City of London livery company and charity to the furnishing industry, as a corporate member.
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The East of England furniture holding company that acquired a chunk of a longtime Argos flatpack furniture supplier earlier this year has revealed the financial terms of the transaction for the first time.
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The value of U.K. furniture exports has jumped by more than £200 million so far this year thanks to increased activity with major trading partners including the U.S., Ireland and France.
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Welcome Furniture took on additional debt as it invested millions of pounds building additional capacity through 2021/22, new figures show.
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Profits fell sharply at Gwynedd cabinet maker Welcome Furniture in the past year as strategic partnerships with online retailers failed to fully mitigate a tough contract market.
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Liverpool based home and garden retailer Taskers booked lower profits as administrative expenses climbed and Covid financial support measures fell away through 2021/22.
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Victoria's takeover of parts of Belgium's Balta group was well publicised but the flooring conglomerate has since completed the buyout of another nearby business, it disclosed Tuesday morning.
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Flooring conglomerate Victoria posted a stronger top and bottom line in the six months to October 1, 2022 but saw cash levels decline as a result of debt pay-down, acquisitions, capex and an operating cash outflow.
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Experienced retail leader Neville Moore has been voted in as chair of Associated Independent Stores (AIS), the Midlands based buying and services group for privately-owned retailers.
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Top line growth and the benefits of earlier restructuring helped the Sweet Dreams beds and upholstery group record its smallest deficit in three years through 2021/22, new accounts show.
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Italian sofa conglomerate Natuzzi has hired a 20-year furniture executive with an architecture and retail design background with a brief to drive improvement across its own-run and third-party showroom network.
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Shaun Cook has left his role as director of retail at DFS-owned upholstered furniture chain Sofology. An interim successor is already in place at the Warrington based retailer.
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Major flooring producer Ulster Carpets says it will sacrifice short-term profits as it builds capacity with heavy investment at its factories across the U.K.
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Upholstered furniture giant Natuzzi enjoyed a €9.2 million bottom line swing in the third quarter, but it cautioned of tougher times to come with shoppers worldwide rethinking their spending plans.
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The operator of Dreams beds stores in Northern Ireland has recruited the former head of Marks and Spencer's business in Ireland as its new commercial director.
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A Yorkshire bedroom furniture retailer leaves creditors facing a seven-figure shortfall after it ceased trading earlier this autumn.
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IKEA store operator and property owner Ingka Group booked smaller profits as its financial investments were hit by upheaval in bond markets caused by rising interest rates.
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U.K. ecommerce furniture sales growth returned in the third quarter of 2022 after year-on-year declines in the first half of the year. Store-based retail sales continued to climb faster, with volumes down across both channels.
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Roger Lunde has stepped down as chief executive at Ekornes with current chief financial officer Fredrik Ødegård Nilsen named as his interim successor until a permanent appointment is made.
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What's done can't be undone, for direct-to-consumer Stratford-upon-Avon sofa manufacturer.
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Upholstery and flooring chain ScS says it is trading resiliently through a challenging period with order intake growth having returned through the autumn.
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International Market Centers (IMC), organiser of the biannual Las Vegas and High Point furniture markets, is to add nine new buying events to its 2023 calendar in a build out of its in-person activity.
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More detailed terms of the buyout of highly-profitable clicks-to-bricks furniture retailer Loaf have been disclosed for the first time following an investment by Blue Coast Capital last year.
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Ecommerce mattress and bed frame retailer Crazy Price Beds is under new ownership after surging import costs and other headwinds forced the disposal of the Midlands operation.
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The cost of living crisis is suppressing demand for floorcoverings among U.K. consumers according to wholesale giant Headlam, but it said gains elsewhere would aid profits.
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United Furniture Industries, the company behind Lane, one of the most storied furniture brands in the U.S., has closed down without warning, putting thousands of jobs at risk.
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Furnishing fabrics and wallpaper supplier Osborne & Little repaid almost £3 million of debt and doubled group profits through 2021/22 as it kept a lid on costs as custom returned.
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Restructuring advisors handling the fallout of the collapse of Made.com (Made) say five trade suitors made bids for the now-defunct furniture retailer during efforts to secure a solvent sale.
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North West flooring manufacturer Bronte Carpets has decided to wind down operations, calling time on 40 years in business amid challenging trading conditions.
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A privately-owned bedroom furniture manufacturer is to restructure its debts after it agreed a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) with its largest creditor.
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Heritage North West independent furniture and furnishings retailer Arighi Bianchi appointed Susie Harding from Tetrad as finance director, it has just announced.
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Bed market leader Dreams is to raise pay for its workforce for the second time this year and introduce a raft of new initiatives designed to support employees.
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The book value of historic West Sussex furniture retailer Reynolds has climbed through the pandemic on strong profits and asset acquisition.
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Northern European furniture brand ILVA plans to build out its presence in Scandinavia over the next year as the one-time U.K. retailer expands beyond its Danish homeland.
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Direct-to-consumer upholstery brand Abakus Direct booked a second straight year of six-figure profits in 2021 as it continued to bounce back from a restructure four years ago.
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Burgess Beds, the Rossendale bed manufacturer bought in an insolvent buyout at the start of the pandemic, received renewed financial backing from one of its owners in the past year.
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Eight furniture, bed and flooring industry enterprises have been named among the best companies to work for in Britain according to a closely-followed list spanning all U.K. industry.
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West Elm has closed a standalone store in the U.K. for the first time since the Brooklyn-based furniture retail brand arrived here from the U.S. back in 2015.
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Made.com ran up more than £1 million in professional fees payable to lawyers and restructuring advisors in the weeks leading up to it being placed into administration.
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Flooring wholesale group Headlam has recruited from outside the home sector for its new chief financial officer, bringing an eight-month recruitment process to a close.
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Europe's largest kitchen manufacturer will have expanded its U.K. store footprint by a fifth once the last of two further planned stores are launched in the coming weeks.
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Privately-owned furniture and home accents retail chain EZ Living Interiors has expanded its footprint in Ireland with the launch of a second Dublin store.
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Man Wah Holdings, the world's largest recliner company, booked higher profits in the six months to end September despite geopolitics impacting its manufacturing business in Europe.
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Restructuring advisors plan to carve out and find a new owner for Trouva, the online trading platform acquired by Made.com (Made) back in the summer.
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High price inflation in the furniture category helped the value of retail sales advance in October on a year-on-year basis but the quantity of goods delivered declined.
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The Government has decided not to introduce an online sales tax as part of wider business rates reform in a move that will disappoint some brick-and-mortar retailers and high street evangelists.
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Greenapple Systems, which was at the vanguard of the supply of glass furniture into the U.K. retail market, has completed a solvent shutdown of the business following a decision to close made last year.
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Consumer confidence improved for the second straight month in November according to a closely-followed poll amid leadership change in Westminster.
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The value of Made.com stock held at U.K. and Belgian warehouses totalled £12.5 million at cost when restructuring advisors were appointed last week, but may realise only a fraction of that amount.
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Preferential and secured claims from U.K. tax authorities and lender Silicon Valley Bank are expected to be repaid in full following the collapse of Made.com, but other creditors face a significant shortfall on the amounts owed to them.
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Furniture and home retailer The Garden Trading Company together with its parent company Joules Group were both officially placed into the hands of restructuring advisors on Wednesday afternoon.
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The West Yorkshire company behind the Bedkingdom.co.uk brand has emerged as one of the largest in the ecommerce beds segment after rapid growth through the pandemic.
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ScanCom International, the Scandinavian outdoor furniture manufacturer with offices in countries including the U.K., found profit growth despite production challenges in the past year.
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Underlying profits almost doubled for independent furniture retailer Cookes in the year to end March as the privately-owned group made gains across both its retail and storage businesses.
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U.K. sofa and bed makers will continue to be able to buy foam from three major sources after the regulator here agreed Carpenter could buy Recticel's engineered foam unit, but only if the bulk of the British business is sold.
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Emerging manufacturing markets helped mattress imports into the U.K. continue to rise in September despite weaker figures from more established sources.
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Consumer price inflation for household furniture eased to its lowest reading in 10 months in October but remains at a historically elevated level.
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Fewer containers of living, dining and bedroom cabinet furniture arrived in the U.K. at the end of the first quarter including a halving in the quantity of goods shipped from China.
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Designer furniture maker Carl Hansen & Søn has begun a consultation with factory workers in its homeland ahead of planned redundancies as it adjusts to weaker consumer demand.
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Dreams says the launch of what it described as the U.K.'s first ever king size gaming bed has hit the spot with it selling twice as many as forecast within the first three weeks of its introduction.
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Soaring inflation on overseas-made goods wasn't enough to prevent a first slide in the value of sofa imports in 20 months at the end of the third quarter. It followed weaker demand, with China bearing the brunt.
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Made.com (Made) administrator PwC has instructed John Pye Auctions to sell the entirety of the fallen furniture, lighting and homeware retailer's unsold U.K. stock.
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Southampton bed manufacturer Millbrook has strengthened its senior leadership team with the appointment of Lee Pharoah as manufacturing manager.
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The value of carpet imports into the U.K. rose for the first time in four months in September as higher prices countered a continuing slide in volumes.
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Two key supply chain partners to the U.K. furniture industry relied on new business wins for growth as they called out weaker trading conditions in big-ticket categories.
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The upholstery group that owns Ashley Manor, Alstons, AMX Design and Alexander & James slipped to a third quarter net loss on lower demand, higher costs and the weaker pound.
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Joules Group, the parent to furniture and home retailer The Garden Trading Company, has filed a notice of intent to appoint administrators (NOI) after attempts to procure rescue funding failed.
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The group behind the Stressless and IMG furniture brands booked lower revenue in the U.K. and Ireland in the third quarter as demand softened. Year-to-date numbers remain well ahead.
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Profits almost trebled for North West supplier Hill's Panel Products through 2021/22 as the key supplier to the fitted furniture sector negotiated upstream challenges.
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Second company for large Northern Ireland based retailer.
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Department store retailer John Lewis & Partners has recalled its Cloud Velvet dining chair product line on safety grounds.
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RH, the luxury U.S. furniture retailer readying its launch in the U.K. market next year, has already spent tens of millions of pounds here and committed to sums far higher, thanks to lease commitments.
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Jason Bannister has increased his stake in an emerging rival to the Oak Furnitureland business he founded 16 years ago, and joined its board of directors.
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U.K. furniture production volumes declined at the end of the third quarter as manufacturers grappled weaker order books amid rising costs.
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Ecommerce giant Amazon lags only the beds market leader among shoppers searching for a new mattress according to new research commissioned by the National Bed Federation (NBF).
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The chairman of the British Furniture Confederation (BFC) has highlighted the significance of the sector for the economy on two of the U.K.'s highest-profile radio broadcast programmes.
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The Halo Creative & Design group acquired a stake in a second British sofa maker last year as it bolstered its U.K. upholstery manufacturing credentials, new filings reveal.
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Furniture conglomerate Actona Group says it has given the vast showroom at its Danish headquarters an extreme makeover as part of plans to make every visit by trade customers an experience.
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The co-founder of King's Road interior design practice and gallery Sigmar has opened a 3,200sqft showroom selling vintage Scandinavian furniture.
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Variety chain B&M European Value Retail (B&M) took a margin hit as the later arrival of warm weather hit demand for garden furniture and other outdoor items.
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General merchandise and food retailer Marks and Spencer Group (M&S) said it is well positioned to take advantage with market conditions expected to become more challenging over the next year.
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Almost 70 percent of the employees of furniture retailer Made.com (Made) have left the company following the appointment of administrators on Tuesday, restructuring advisors have said.
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Two companies from the home and garden furnishings sectors were named winners in the Scale-Up Awards, which recognise growing businesses across the country.
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General merchandise retail giant Next has won the race to acquire the Made.com (Made) brand after it outbid rivals to complete an asset-only purchase with restructuring advisors.
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Sofa market leader DFS has appointed John Fallon as its new chief financial officer (CFO), succeeding Mike Schmidt, who left last month to join value retailer B&M.
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Independent South Coast department and garden centre retailer returns to profit as it recovered most of the business lost to Covid.
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A survey of leading British furniture manufacturers has laid bare the impact of rising production costs on their businesses, with many now struggling to turn a profit.
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Longtime md Simon Blackley has led a management buyout (MBO) of John Spencer (Textiles) and Ian Mankin, the two subsidiaries of weaving and fabrics group Ashfield Mill Company.
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Furniture retailer Loaf booked its first-ever eight-figure profits as the clicks-to-bricks business continued its inexorable ascent in the year to March 31, 2022.
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The company behind ecommerce brand Furniture and Choice saw profits fall on lower revenue and thinner margins as it lapped the strong demand seen through the height of the pandemic.
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Solid wood beds and mattress maker and retailer Get Laid Beds built on profitable revenue growth through the pandemic as its top and bottom lines advanced again in the past year.
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Profits were two-thirds higher at independent retailer Fairway Furniture through 2021/22 as it navigated supply chain challenges to deliver its order book.
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Furniture wholesaler Kettle Interiors has paid tribute to its founder John Kettle, who died Saturday, November 5, aged 73.
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Sofa market leader DFS has added Laura Ashley to its roster of third-party brands with a collection of upholstered furniture.
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Panaz Holdings has promoted Nadeem Memon to group chief financial officer with responsibility for the fabrics and furnishings group's expanding roster of business units.
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National bed retailer Bensons for Beds is moving into a new Stirling store this weekend, a few doors down from its former home on the Springkerse Retail Park.
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