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Bedeck returned to profit last year as the Northern Ireland based bedding company benefitted from a lower administrative cost burden of almost £2 million, including non-recurring exceptional items and a currency gain.
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Tony Attard, the new master of The Furniture Makers' Company, the industry charity, is organising a 300-mile bike road from Hertfordshire to Lancashire with the aim of raising £50,000.
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Television and radio presenter Colin Murray will be the host of the National Bed Federation (NBF) Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony, taking place September 20 at the Telford International Centre.
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There were tentative signs that furniture retail price inflation may have peaked as consumer price rises in the category eased in May for the second straight month. The figures remain at sky high levels.
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Furniture and home accents wholesaler Coach House smashed through a high ceiling to record largest-ever profits at its trading arm last year as it recovered strongly from the first year of the pandemic.
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Man Wah Holdings says the company will appeal after a jury awarded more than $100 million in damages for the alleged infringement of a former supplier's intellectual property. A judge will now decide the actual figure, likely to be a fraction of that amount, pending an appeal.
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About one in four products bought by the National Bed Federation (NBF) as part of its ongoing due diligence finished product testing programme revealed major flammability and trade descriptions issues.
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Upholstered furniture brand Snug has launched a new eco-friendly sofa cover option across its entire programme of sofa models.
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Savoir Beds co-owner Alistair Hughes has stepped down as managing director having hired former Maker&Son executive Nicholas Alexandre as his successor. Mr Hughes remains a director, focussed on long term strategy and growth.
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Trade show INDX Furniture takes place at the Cranmore Park Conference & Exhibition Centre over three days later this summer with pre-registration now open, organisers have confirmed.
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A prominent U.K. ecommerce sofa retailer is unaffected by the insolvency of the company that operated the brand for almost four years until the beginning of 2022.
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Revenue jumped to nearly £90 million and losses were reversed for the U.K.'s self-described largest independent floorcoverings distributor last year.
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Cabinet manufacturer Wegmans Furniture Industries booked revenue up nearly a third in the first quarter driven by an even bigger improvement in Europe, where the U.K. is a key market.
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Ecommerce giant Amazon has moved to strike out a number of newly-formed companies that it believes may have been looking to trade off the back of its universally-recognised brand name.
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Ex-DFS executive Nick Collard has been promoted to CEO at Bensons for Beds with immediate effect, succeeding Mark Jackson, who is leaving the retail chain after three years at the helm. Group CFO John Sidebotham is also stepping down.
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The past week has seen a rout of global furniture industry stocks with billions of pounds of value disappearing into the ether as the market capitalisations of dozens of companies declined, many in the U.K.
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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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A North West wholesale and retail furniture company that traded direct but also sold through major online platform businesses has gone the way of a predecessor operation.
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A South East freight forwarding and third-party logistics (3PL) provider has gained a 10-day stay from creditor action after it filed a notice of intent (NOI) to appoint administrators.
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Upholstery and flooring retailer ScS says Andy Kemp will join its board as non-executive director next year ahead of the planned departure of one of its existing officers.
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Rotherham based Mattress Online was the highest placed company from the home furnishings sector at the Northern Tech Awards, which recognised fast-growing companies.
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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 completing a major refinancing solution last June.
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Expedient fit-out of high-profile London showroom followed Sofa Workshop ceasing to trade back at the end of March.
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Investment helped the soft furnishings group behind the Iliv brand find further margin gains in a strong trading period during which it grew profits and repaid debt.
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Takeover followed winding up petition issued by a timber supplier to the mattress and beds vertical.
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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 it was reformed after the General Election.
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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.
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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.
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Britain's leading bed makers are turning increasingly bearish amid the unwind of previously-bulging order books, rising costs and a less-rosy demand outlook.
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Ecommerce shopping group N Brown said the shift away from home goods seen since the turn of the year is continuing and showing no signs of abating.
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National retailer Bensons for Beds has launched a new line of mattresses and beds under the historic Staples & Co brand with an option count north of 28,000 combinations.
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Stakeholders across the U.K. furniture and furnishings trade have raised £270,000 for the year-long Step 2 It campaign, organised by The Furniture Makers' Company (TFMC), the City livery and industry charity.
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Furniture, home and department store retailer Barkers of Northallerton saw revenue recover to pre-pandemic levels last year with its dedicated Barkers Home store among the standout performers. Gross margin widened by 380 basis points.
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Foam and sprung mattress imports into the U.K. continued their ascendancy at the beginning of the second quarter driven by a mix of established and emerging suppliers.
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Devon bed manufacturer Vispring is to open a flagship store in central London, its first standalone showroom anywhere in the world.
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Smaller nations picked up the slack as living, dining and bedroom cabinet volumes from China dropped by 25.1 percent at the beginning of the second quarter.
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Actona has agreed to buy Polish sofa maker SITS in a deal that means the design, wholesale and manufacturing group has added about £180 million in upholstery revenue through acquisitions in the past year alone.
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Upholstery import volumes from China fell by almost a quarter in April as retailers and wholesalers grappled with the rising cost of shipping products in from the country.
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Keen & Toms Holdings, parent to bed maker Hypnos and white glove delivery company Keen & Able, remained cashflow positive through the height of the pandemic as supply chain challenges hindered its ability to turn strong demand into profit.
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The value of carpets imports dropped by almost a fifth at the start of the second quarter while volumes were down at nearly twice that rate on a year-on-year basis.
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The operators of bed brands that have no direct manufacturing of their own will be able to apply to join the National Bed Federation (NBF) after the U.K. trade body widened its membership criteria with a new category.
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Man Wah Holdings, the world's largest motion furniture maker with operations across the Far East and Europe, is considering the spin-off or separate listing of a component subsidiary.
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Well-known upholstery industry executive Daniel Feltham-White has acquired sought-after intellectual property of historic retail brand Sofa Workshop.
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The first phase of a major refurbishment of the former Clarkes Furnishers store in Maidstone is complete with it now open again to customers and trading as Lenleys Home.
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The value of U.K. furniture production remained at a historic high level in April but fell below revised record figures for the end for the first quarter.
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The company that completed an insolvent buyout of a prominent North London furniture wholesaler whose products were sold on platforms such as Wayfair has a new name.
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A director of the business now trading the semi-national multichannel retail brand Bedworld has been fined and had his van seized and crushed after admitting fly-tipping.
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The National Bed Federation (NBF) has named the eight independent judges for the 2022 Bed Industry Awards across the five manufacturer and component supplier categories.
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But higher costs mean 23-store South East retail chain fails to make material gains to the bottom line despite surging sales.
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North West ecommerce and store retailer Furniture in Fashion, which has been profitable every year since its inception in 2007, recorded seven-figure earnings as it traded strongly through the pandemic.
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A North West independent retailer with ties to the once-national Durham Pine brand has ceased trading after filing for insolvency late last month following its planned closure.
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Floorcoverings suppliers and their customers must work in unison amid rising prices and an expected fall in demand, according to a worldwide collective representing companies in the sector.
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A John Lewis warehouse in Reading is to become one of the first buildings to be knocked down and replaced by housing under previously-announced plans by parent John Lewis Partnership (JLP) to move into property.
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Upholstery market leader DFS has cut its full year profit expectations as a result of continuing supply chain disruption and a slowdown in order intake. It said it still expects to take market share.
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A North West based direct-to-consumer manufacturer and retailer of children's mattresses and bedroom furniture lists a new trading entity following the insolvency of its former operating company.
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High-end furniture brand B&B Italia, whose products are sold through third party dealers in the U.K., has launched an ecommerce store in one of its key international markets.
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Privately-owned Kent furniture retailer Gerald Lukehurst & Son (Lukehurst) made its largest gain on public record in the past year after accelerating a store expansion programme.
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Dreams, the U.K.'s biggest bed retailer, has appointed global creative network Iris as its new agency with a brief to create a new brand vision for the future, post-pandemic.
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The National Bed Federation has announced the five judges for the retailer categories of the 2022 Bed Industry Awards, which will be announced at its gala dinner on September 20.
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One of the co-founders of online estate agent Purplebricks who now runs emerging property portal Boomin has acquired My Bespoke Room (MBR), the digital interior design provider that works with a slew of high-profile furniture companies.
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Follows launch of 6,000sqft Chelsea showroom offering its full furniture range in the capital last year.
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The take-off of furniture and homeware brand Loaf's physical retail business in Scotland, plans for which we first reported last year, is moving a step closer.
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Ministry of Furniture (MoF), the contract manufacturer that emerged from Remploy in 2014, has moved to a new head office and showroom facility in Neath, South Wales.
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Costco levered the power of brands such as Natuzzi, Thomasville, Bentley Designs and Silentnight on the way to strong growth in the U.K. which it has followed up with further gains in the period since.
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Independent surveyors have revised upwards the value of IKEA's U.K. real estate interests, even after the disposal of millions of pounds worth of property last year.
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Ecommerce retailer Furniture Box traded strongly through the pandemic as it recorded seven-figure profits ahead of an investment in a new purpose-built stock holding facility and expansion into new geographies.
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Fresh valuation for the company behind the Houseology and Olivia's ecommerce furniture and interiors brands up-rates the previous figure by nearly £18 million.
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Interior fabrics group Panaz Holdings has appointed the former general manager of luxury textiles company Chase Erwin to run the brand following its takeover last year.
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The failure of a West London soft furnishings supplier dating back to the mid 1980s leaves creditors facing a large shortfall.
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Show organisers have rescheduled the China International Furniture Fair (CIFF Guangzhou) and a sister event for next month after they were postponed because of Covid earlier this year.
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Leading British bed manufacturers have agreed a five-point commitment to take steps in unison that will address global environmental damage. It is part of a new National Bed Federation (NBF) initiative called Pledge for Our Planet.
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Direct-to-consumer mattress and ancillary products retailer and wholesaler Eve Sleep has launched a review and formal sale process, saying it wants to explore its strategic and financing options.
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Restructuring advisors have outlined details of the prepack reorganisation of a circa £1 million Surrey cabinet maker while two other manufacturers—both in the made-to-measure furniture sector—have filed notices of intent to appoint administrators.
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Wealthy shoppers eagerly awaiting the U.K. arrival of RH in the Cotswolds this summer may have to wait a few weeks longer than anticipated as the upmarket U.S. retailer satisfies the nuances of the British planning system.
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Floorcoverings conglomerate Mohawk Industries has agreed to buy the Vitromex ceramic tile business from Grupo Industrial Saltillo (GIS) in an all-cash deal worth about $293 million (£235m).
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Furniture retailer SoloMiya has left consumers facing a battle to recover down payments after it collapsed into liquidation. Its failure was confirmed in what was the industry's worst week since the start of the pandemic.
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Gillies of Broughty Ferry has strengthened its presence in the North of Scotland with the takeover of independent retailer Grampian Furnishers.
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Ecommerce giant The Very Group (TVG) plans to offer consumer loans of up to £15,000 as part of a strategy designed to give its customers access to a greater number of products.
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Minimum high six-figure profits for West Yorkshire based ecommerce mattress and beds retailer with close ties to the manufacturing sector.
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Design, wholesale and retail group Neptune acquired two of its third-party run branded showrooms during a period when the worst of the Covid-restrictions were coming to a close.
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B&M sold its last remaining shares in an Irish bedding retail business at the height of the pandemic in a transaction planned years in advance.
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Mike Scott will retire as chief financial officer at diversified flooring conglomerate Victoria later this year after six years in the role. His replacement joins from outside the industry.
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Furniture exports out of the U.K. continued their recovery in the first quarter of 2022 but still have some distance to travel to return to historic highs.
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Restructuring advisors have achieved a third substantial return for creditors of the predecessor Silentnight company, more than eleven years after its business and assets were sold in a prepack deal to its current owner.
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Online vendors offering the goods of a North Yorkshire based wholesaler of occasional furniture and rattan home and garden goods which collapsed earlier this year are clearing the last remaining items from their platforms.
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Two furniture brands, one long established and the other new to Ireland, are expanding their retail footprint in the country as trade begins to return closer to historic levels.
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Upholstery supplier Nicoletti Home is building further manufacturing capacity nears its southern Italy headquarters with a new factory coming on stream in the next month.
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Furniture, a category jettisoned under its previous ownership, is at the heart of home improvement chain Homebase's new Chester store, which is now open.
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Revenue jumped by more than a quarter and profits increased for Gillies of Broughty Ferry in 2020/21 as the six-store retailer responded quickly to external factors amid the height of the pandemic.
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Neptune reinvested strong cashflow back into the business amid rising sales and profits last year, but the furniture, home and garden brand says it has since encountered supply chain constraints.
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Furniture industry buying group and event organiser Minerva Furniture Group may in time look to hire following the departure of a key official last month but there are no immediate plans to recruit and no decision has been taken.
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Upholstered furniture chain Sofology has timelined the planned opening dates of both of the latest locations in its new store pipeline.
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Off-price furniture and homeware retailer Homesense plans to rebuild U.K. store numbers with the opening of a new store north of London, its first since the pandemic started.
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Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) is to further expand the scope of its H&M Home store concept in the U.K. with the launch of a two-storey unit in Gateshead.
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French multinational Maisons du Monde (MDM) has issued a profits warning after saying any hopes for sales growth this year can be largely forgotten.
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Italian upholstered furniture giant Natuzzi says it has been scouting new vendors in more stable geographic areas as it looks to plot a course through supply chain challenges.
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Sofa company Arlo & Jacob is to be the lead sponsor of the National Premier League tennis finals at the historic St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club in Surrey.
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Ecommerce-led furniture and homeware company Swoon Editions has become the latest direct-to-consumer business in the home sector to get backing from fashion-to-furnishings giant Next.
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Britain's largest bed maker Silentnight has launched a marketing campaign to promote Sleepunique, the new interactive mattress recommendation tool it introduced last month.
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Historic manufacturer Ulster Carpets has become one of just four carpet makers and six flooring companies to have been granted a Royal Warrant by The Queen.
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IKEA shrugged off the impact of raw material price inflation to find wider gross margin and cost savings elsewhere in the business on the way to its first U.K. operating profit in four years.
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Buy-and-build flooring group Likewise says it has established a trade brand in most geographical areas of the U.K. as new results confirm its annual revenue run-rate has breached nine-figures for the first time.
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High six-figure profits for the second straight year at privately-owned Leicester furniture retailer.
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The insolvency of a direct-to-consumer upholstered furniture company making armchairs, sofas and dining chairs from its factory in the Cotswolds leaves creditors, chiefly the bank, facing a shortfall.
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Home and garden ecommerce giant Wayfair opened the first retail store under its AllModern fascia on Tuesday as it embarks on what its CEO has called the next stage in the retailer's omnichannel journey.
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Marks and Spencer's store network is delivering 25 percent less revenue across clothing and home categories compared to four years ago. Online is making up the shortfall, it says, along with a move away from urban high streets.
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Kent bed maker Sleepeezee says nearby Romney Marsh Wools is its new supplier of wool, and will be the provider for all mattresses containing wool material.
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Henry Tadros will take over as chairman at heritage furniture maker Ercol [ercol] this summer, the Princes Risborough manufacturer has announced. He succeeds his father, Edward Tadros.
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Fallen upholstery retailer Sofa Workshop sustained losses of £5.5 million last year and would have needed even more than that in funding to see out the remainder of 2022, had the plug not been pulled.
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Former Debenhams and New Look executive holds shares in direct-to-consumer bedding brand following spring 2022 transaction that uprates the company valuation.
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More than 7,000 Klarna employees worldwide have been told that 10 percent of them are to be impacted by a programme of redundancies as the fintech company grapples with worsening consumer demand impacting its retail customers.
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Surrey furniture maker moves to South Coast and rebrands while its predecessor operating company was placed into administration earlier this week.
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Shares in home and furniture retailer Dunelm closed at their lowest level in over two years on Tuesday on what proved the busiest day of trading in the stock for more than a year.
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An online cabinet furniture retailer and wholesaler that booked seven-figure profits in its last financial year has secured external investment into the business.
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Net profits more than doubled for the second straight year for West Yorkshire mattress manufacturer Apollo Beds through 2020/21.
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Cost cutting and a five percentage point improvement in gross margin lifts Wiltshire carpet group back into profit after a circa £300,000 bottom line turnaround.
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The company behind the Houseology and Olivia's furniture and interiors brands has expanded again with the acquisition of a digital marketing agency.
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Kitchen retailer Wren is planning to ramp up its activity in the U.S. with the opening of a second large factory and the rollout of new showrooms this year.
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The National Bed Federation (NBF) says it expects to attract more than 1,500 visitors to the 2022 Bed Show, with online registration now open ahead of the autumn event.
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Rising costs for both consumers and businesses along with the structural shift to online will result in further gains for retail parks in the brick-and-mortar segment, one of the U.K's largest furniture retail landlords has forecast.
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Majority position in East Midlands furniture wholesaler was sold to the Swedish investor Storskogen Group last year.
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Benelux investment fund chaired by floorcoverings manufacturing scion reallocates shareholdings to newly-created holding company.
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A two-store South West home and gift retailer that ceased trading earlier this spring leaves a major Dutch interior décor wholesaler facing the non payment of a six-figure debt.
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Kingfisher, parent to U.K. home improvement chain B&Q, is to start a second £300 million share buyback programme inside a year as part of plans to return excess capital to shareholders.
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Jim Gerety, md of bed maker Vispring, has been elected president of the National Bed Federation (NBF) at its Annual General Meeting. He succeeds David Moffitt, CEO of Kayfoam Woolfson.
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The global bedding giant behind the Mlily brand enjoyed double-digit revenue growth in the first quarter, driven largely by success in North America. Sales in Europe were close to flat.
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The value of furniture and lighting retail sales climbed in April according to new figures released Friday morning but at the lowest rate so far this year and below inflation in the category.
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Danish furniture chain JYSK will open its 26th U.K. store early next month while Lars Larsen Group, the owner of the global brand, is expanding further its growing roster of retail formats.
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The U.K.'s largest flooring wholesale group believes ecommerce and a growing cohort of multiple retail customers can help it counter a weaker market this year.
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Gilles Bonan, the former chief executive and chairman at French furniture group Roche Bobois, has been appointed to the board of Natuzzi.
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Furniture Village sleep and wellness ambassador Dr Ranj Singh is visiting schools across London to talk to pupils and parents about the importance of a good night’s sleep, as part of a new collaboration with The Sleep Charity.
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Internet furniture sales declined in the U.K. during the first quarter while store-based sales climbed as they lapped a period when brick-and-mortar retailers could only deliver, and not take orders because of restrictions.
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Shareholders have provided new equity funding for The Conran Shop, the London based furniture, design and homeware retailer sold to a new investor at the outset of the pandemic.
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Guest bed, mattress and sofabed maker Jay-Be said it limited supply to certain export markets to ensure its home market demands were met first as it grappled supply chain challenges through 2020/21.
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Home shopping retailer N Brown said pandemic-driven demand for home and gift categories has tempered but not before it had capitalised on the homeware boom through the past two years.
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The md of luxury kitchens chain Harvey Jones has led a management buyout that will see an industry return for former Silentnight chairman Adrian Fawcett.
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U.K. upholstery group TCM Living found big sales growth in the first quarter of 2022 on the back of increased demand and the delivery of orders carried over from the end of last year.
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Furniture and furnishings price inflation eased for the first time in over a year in April but remained at a very high level.
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Rollie Attard, chief operating officer at fabrics supplier Panaz, is to become chief executive in place of his father and company founder Tony Attard, who will become chairman.
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Cabinet imports from China fell at the end of the first quarter on a volume basis with only higher prices lifting the value of shipments arriving at British ports.
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Privately-owned furniture and department store retailer Browns enjoyed a £1.6 million bottom-line turnaround in the past year as it emerged strongly from lockdown.
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Furniture testing and services provider FIRA International has gained UKAS Accreditation to the main flammability regulation for the American market.
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Family-owned bed maker Harrison Spinks has donated 136 mattresses to The International Charity Fund “For Ukraine”, in order to support the country’s needs within hospitals and refugee accommodation.
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An increase in the value of goods arriving from close-to-home markets lifted foam and sprung mattress imports in March, new data shows. Volumes declined.
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The value of shares in furniture and homeware retailer Made.com fell to a new low by Monday evening after it warned that sales would be lower than previously forecast and losses wider.
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Revenue from European markets including the U.K. have jumped by half for upholstered furniture conglomerate Man Wah Holdings in the past year, driven largely by output from its Far East factories.
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Circa £16 million turnover Midlands 3PL and group logistics provider targets early next year to be fully operational.
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Volume declined for Leggett & Platt's bedding business in the first quarter but the diversified spring maker and supplier of other mattress components successfully passed on higher raw material costs.
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Former John Lewis chief financial officer Patrick Lewis is to take the same post at furniture retailer Made.com, the retailer announced Monday morning alongside downgraded guidance for the year.
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The value of carpet imports advanced in high single digit percentages in March, masking a fall in the quantity of goods arriving at U.K. borders. Turkey proved the exception, delivering an increase on both counts.
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