All Home & DIY articles – Page 271
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Focus to cut jobs as it forecasts tough year
DIY retailer Focus will slash 15 per cent of its workforce by the end of this month to prepare the business for difficult trading next year.
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Allied Carpets to go transactional with site revamp
Allied Carpets is to launch a transactional web site in an effort to take advantage of the online sales boom.
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Land of Leather: City View
Operating costs are being slashed at Land of Leather as it battens down the hatches in anticipation of very tough trading in its new financial year.
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Steamer Trading plans 30 stores by 2011
Kitchenwares retailer Steamer Trading Cookshop opened its 18th store last week and plans to increase its portfolio by more than a third.
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Jysk maps out its route for overseas growth
Danish homewares retailer Jysk is to expand its international operations by launching in China, Eastern Europe, Greece and Belgium.
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Lord Kirkham: There’s an art to good business
As Damien Hirst’s recent auction showed, thinking outside the box is key to making money
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Management buys Joy out of administration
Fashion and homewares retailer Joy has been bought out of administration, saving around 150 jobs.
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Profits crash at Land of Leather
Furniture retailer Land of Leather has revealed that pre-tax profits fell by 16.2 million, from 18.5 million to 2.3 million in the year to August 3.
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MFI retail and property divisions placed into administration
MFI placed its retail and property divisions into administration yesterday after the completion of a management buyout led by chief executive Gary Favell.
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Retailers face insolvency in new year
Hundreds of UK retailers face the risk of going bust in the new year.
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Rosebys shuts 10 stores and axes another 60 jobs
Rosebys has closed 10 of its stores, making a further 60 people redundant after slashing 32 head office jobs, as Retail Week revealed on Tuesday .
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NewsHarvey Nichols set to axe homewares
Harvey Nichols is to axe homewares from its Knightsbridge flagship store in a bid to expand its fashion offer.
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Homewares clearance site to help shift surplus stock
A former managing director of retailer OKA Direct has launched an e-tail operation selling home retailers’ clearance stock.
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Retail on the ropes
Sector left reeling as relentless financial crisis leads to dramatic sales slump over past fortnight
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MFI to secure deals on rent holiday
Property giant Land Securities is understood to have provisionally agreed to allow embattled furniture retailer MFI a three-month rent holiday.
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Rosebys makes 32 redundancies
Value home furnishings retailer Rosebys has made 32 redundancies, mostly at head office, after falling into administration last week.
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Consumer confidence down due to banking crisis
Consumer confidence levels dipped at the end of September due to the crisis in the financial markets, after having climbed at the beginning of the month, but consumers are beginning to acclimatise to the downturn according to market researchers GfK NOP.
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Rosebys brand name sold to parent company
The Rosebys brand name has been sold to Rosebys UK, a subsidiary of Indian-based parent company GHCL, after the retailer went into administration last week.
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MFI rescued by management buy-out
MFI has been saved from administration in an 11th-hour rescue deal that will allow the management to buy the beleaguered furniture chain.