All Home & DIY articles – Page 292
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Allders expands out of Croydon with bed shop
Allders has opened its first store outside Croydon since new management took over in 2005.
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Habitat pins hopes for revival on new format
Homewares retailer Habitat will launch its next generation of stores this year in an effort to revive flagging sales and profitability.
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Cheshire could earn £16m over four years
Kingfisher boss Ian Cheshire could earn more than 16 million over the next four years in salary, bonus and shares if he succeeds in turning around the DIY and home improvement group.
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Carpetright hit by slowdown
Carpetright has reported an increase in total sales of 3.9 per cent at its UK and Ireland division for the third quarter, although like-for-like sales fell 4 per cent.
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Floors-2-go culls staff
Flooring retailer Floors-to-Go is thought to have made 90 people redundant, about 15 per cent of its total workforce, after like-for-like sales plummeted during January.
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Opinion
Cheshire has a big job ahead
While not wanting to question the thoroughness of the search, Ian Cheshire’s appointment as chief executive of Kingfisher won’t have surprised many.
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Cheshire: Kingfisher needs culture change
Kingfisher boss Ian Cheshire has vowed to change the culture of the home improvement giant as he takes up his position as group chief executive this week.
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Home for beds
Homestyle beds chief Bill Carrahar has taken a disparate group of stores and created a brand identity as he aims to give Dreams a run for its money. Jennifer Creevy meets him
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Kesa to embark on buy-back mission following sale of BUT
Electricals group Kesa is to mount a share buy-back programme to reward investors following its sale of French furniture chain BUT.
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Lastminute founder’s furniture site Mydeco goes live
Internet entrepreneur Brent Hoberman’s hotly anticipated online furniture venture Mydeco.com has launched today.
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No respite for Land of Leather
Land of Leather has reported a further slump in sales over the critical January period.
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Ian Cheshire made Kingfisher chief executive
Kingfisher has appointed Ian Cheshire as group chief executive with effect from January 28.
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Marks & Spencer in talks over Sephora shop-in-shops
Marks & Spencer has held talks with French beauty retailer Sephora about opening cosmetics and perfume shop-in-shops in the UK giant’s stores.
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B&Q targets grey pound
DIY giant B&Q is to aggressively chase the lucrative grey pound by launching hundreds of affordable products aimed at the over-55s.
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Opinion
Lord Kirkham: We’ve had it easy for too long
Retailers need to put things in perspective – there are worse fates than falling like-for-likes
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NewsTJ Hughes puts paid to plunging profits with a positive Christmas
Discount department store group TJ Hughes has delivered a substantial turnaround from a profit slump of almost 100 per cent in the year to January 2007.
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B&Q to stop selling patio heaters
B&Q is to no longer stock gas patio heaters, following claims that they are harmful to the environment.
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Home shopping groups avoid slump with solid like-for-likes
Home shopping continued to outperform market expectations as N Brown, Ideal Shopping Direct and Findel all reported strong like-for-like sales growth over the Christmas trading period.
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January Sales a hit at upmarket furniture sellers
Upmarket furniture retailers have bucked the dire trading conditions in the mass-market, recording strong starts to their January Sales.