All Home & DIY articles – Page 280
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News
Halfords: the city view
Car accessories and bikes retailer Halfords has bolstered its pole market position, revealing a total sales rise of 1.7 per cent, writes Nicola Harrison.
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Share bounce does little to ease pressure as City remains bullish
Retailers rallied after the misery of the past few weeks, but the mood among many sector analysts remained resolutely downbeat.
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Ilva Furniture stores to close
Ilva Furniture, which fell into administration last month, is to shut its three UK stores after a buyer could not be found.
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AnalysisHandy Men: Kingfisher assembles international management
As Kingfisher boss Ian Cheshire builds his top team of international managers, the question is how successful will they be in reviving the retailer’s fortunes? Nicola Harrison reports.
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B&Q like-for-like decline slows
Like-for-likes at Europe’s biggest DIY group Kingfisher slid 1.5 per cent in the 10 weeks to July 12.
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United Carpets profits soar
United Carpets has shrugged off difficult trading conditions, increasing pre-tax profits by 46.8 per cent to 1.51 million in the year to March 31.
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Floors-2-Go enters administration
Flooring retailer Floors-2-Go has gone into administration, appointing Kroll as administrator. 41 stores will close, resulting in 97 redundancies.
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Management buy-out rescues ProCook from administration
Troubled cookware retailer ProCook has been bought out of administration by its management and a consortium of shareholders for an undisclosed sum.
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Ikea picks internal candidate to replace Hogsted
Martin Hansson will replace Peter Hogsted as retail manager of Ikea UK after DIY giant Kingfisher poached him to head its international operations.
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Saint Maclou tightens grip on French carpet market
Saint Maclou, the French parent company of UK carpet retailer Allied Carpets, has ramped up its European presence by acquiring its biggest French rival – Mondial Moquette – and Switzerland’s Carpetland Suisse.
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Opinion
Is Kingfisher only worth 92p?
Kingfisher boss Ian Cheshire will report on how his DIY retail improvement project is going next Thursday, when a pre-close update is due.
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Kingfisher poaches Ikea and DSGi bosses
DIY giant Kingfisher has poached Ikea’s UK chief executive, Peter Hogsted, to head its international division.
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MFI calls in restructuring expert
Furniture retailer MFI is understood to have called in corporate restructuring company Kroll Talbot Hughes (KTH) as the credit crunch bites.
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Regional malls continue to deliver for House of Fraser despite fuel worries
House of Fraser is bucking the sales downturn at out-of-town centres, recording like-for-like rises at its stores in regional malls despite claims that consumers are cutting back on visits.
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OKA Direct sets up Cotswolds show house
Furniture and homewares retailer OKA Direct has bought a Georgian house in the Cotswolds to convert into a showroom that it claims will set it apart from the rest of the high street.
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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.