All Home & DIY articles – Page 278
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Tesco takes on Argos with first catalogue shop launch
Tesco has launched its first Argos-style shop-in-shop at its Homeplus store in Bristol, which opened this week.
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DFS kicks off rock star summer Sale ads
DFS has launched a summer Sale campaign that centres on shoppers’ rock-star fantasies.
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Analysis
Topps Tiles: the City view
Topps has lost more than half its value in the past three months as housing market fears and covenant concerns weigh heavy.
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Analysis
Mounting recession speculation sends retail stocks into tailspin
The pall of looming recession hung black over the City all week, pitching the entire market into steep decline.
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MFI kitchens ads to woo top-end buyers
Furniture retailer MFI has launched an ad campaign for its K chen Lab range of German-engineered kitchens with the aim of tapping into the premium market.
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Consumer spend to slow to 0.5% next year
Consumer spending growth in the UK will slow to just 0.5 per cent next year as households face high energy and food prices and falling property values.
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Shop price rise for June stays below inflation
June shop prices were 2.5 per cent higher than last year but below overall inflation, according to the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index.
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Dunelm like-for-likes fall
Out-of-town specialist homewares retailer Dunelm recorded a 2.4 per cent fall in like-for-like sales in the 13 weeks to June 28, 2008. Total sales rose 7.7 per cent in the period.
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Opinion
Location, location, location
It’s always easy to be wise after the event, but the demise of Ilva in the UK has to be seen as an accident waiting to happen.
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OKA enjoys first-half growth
Furniture and interiors retailer OKA Direct has bucked the downward trend in the homewares sector to report 24 per cent year-on-year growth for its first half.
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Carpetright to desert expensive retail parks
Carpetright is aiming to shift 90 per cent of its store portfolio from high-rent A1 retail parks to bulky-goods parks to better weather the economic downturn.
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Opinion
It’s bad, but it’ll get worse
No offence to Beales, but it’s come to something when it’s capitalised at three times as much as the two quoted sofa retailers.
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Carpetright to up staff communication
Carpetright will roll out a store communications system to its 550 shops and concessions in the UK and Ireland.
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Retailers slide as M&S’s share dive leads wave of falling stocks
While Marks & Spencer’s terrible performance in food grabbed the headlines on Wednesday, it was the general retailers that got a battering, as Sir Stuart Rose warned the market was at its toughest since the early 1990s.
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Matalan seals deal to launch in Middle East
Matalan is to make its overseas debut in the Middle East, with 15 stores opening in the region over the next five years. The value fashion retailer, which this week revealed an 89 per cent increase in full-year pre-tax profits to 53.2 million, has signed an agreement with a ...
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NewsProCook becomes latest victim of crunch as it falls into administration
The credit crunch claimed yet another high street victim this week, as kitchen and cookware retailer ProCook plunged into administration.
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ScS sold to private equity firm
ScS has been sold to Sun European Partners for an undisclosed sum.
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Cookware retailer ProCook enters administration
Kitchen equipment and cookware retailer ProCook has gone into administration.
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Carpetright's Harris fears tough year
Carpetright has warned that trade is tough as it revealed a 7.6 per cent increase in underlying pre-tax profit to 62.1 million.
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AnalysisSharper Focus: reinventing the DIY retailer
Ailing DIY retailer Focus is being reinvented by its management team. John Ryan visits the first new-look store in Wantage, with chief executive Bill Grimsey and brand director Richard Bird