Furniture retailer DFS was founded in 1969, as specialists in sofas and soft furnishings. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about DFS and the home and DIY sector.
Sofas specialist DFS expects annual profits to come in “slightly above the top end of guidance” on the back of trading momentum and cost control.
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DFS group defied consumers’ big-ticket jitters with strong order growth in its last results, and upped its profit guidance to boot.
The chief executive of DFS has said that the wider market slowdown surrounding ‘big-ticket’ purchases is stabilising, rather than recovering.
DFS has appointed former Holland & Barrett boss Tony Buffin as an independent non-executive director.
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