Hardwood specialist Oak Furniture Land has become a regular fixture in retail parks across the country. Oak Furniture Land opened its first retail space in 2009, with the launch of a unit in an airfield, and expanded to close to 100 stores. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about Oak Furniture Land and the home and DIY sector.
Patrick Lewis, great-grandson of the founder of department store chain John Lewis, has left Oak Furnitureland after one year as its finance boss.
The boss of Oak Furniture Land said its focus is now to be more dominant new categories and “take better market share”, following a period of consistent like-for-like growth.
The great-grandson of John Spedan Lewis who was also the partnership’s former chief finance officer has joined Oak Furnitureland, Retail Week can reveal.
Oak Furnitureland has defied ongoing pandemic-induced disruption and soaring inflation in freight and raw materials to post a 10% year-on-year uplift in group revenue and a return to profit.
Oak Furnitureland has announced the appointment of Mike Coupe as its new chair.
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