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Habitat (a trading name of Argos Limited) is a brand of household furnishings in the United Kingdom and the main homewares brand within the Sainsbury's group.. Founded in 1964 by Sir Terence Conran, it merged with a number of other retailers in the 1980s to create Storehouse plc, before the latter sold Habitat to the Ikano Group, owned by the Kamprad family, in 1992.
In March 2006, Argos carried out a trial of a new catalogue branded Argos Home in over 100 stores in the United Kingdom. This proved successful, and on 5 August 2006, it launched the second Argos Home catalogue, this time in all 200 Argos Extra stores. The catalogue only contained home furniture and styling tips for the current season.
March. [6] [7] [8] The Statutes (Definition of Time) Act, 1880 defined Dublin Mean Time as the legal time for Ireland. [9] This was the local mean time at Dunsink Observatory outside Dublin, and was about 25 minutes 21 seconds behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which was defined by the same act to be the legal time for Great Britain.
In 1949, GUS applied to the UK government asking to extend their dollar facilities to £750,000 to invest in the US to increase the sale of British goods. [ 144 ] [ 145 ] In 1954, GUS made an approach to purchase the US mail order and department store group Montgomery Ward with a plan to invest $100 million in the business, however the bid was ...
March was historically a chapelry within the ancient parish of Doddington, which formed part of the North Witchford hundred of Cambridgeshire. The chapelry of March became a separate civil parish in 1866. [9] The North Witchford hundred formed part of the Isle of Ely, which was historically a liberty under the secular jurisdiction of the Bishop ...
The centre has experienced shoppers from the Republic of Ireland, who cross the border to Newry to buy cheaper goods due to difference in currency. This remarkable increase in cross-border trade has become so widespread that it has lent its name to a general phenomenon known as the Newry effect.
The building was acquired and refurbished by the March Civic Trust, with funding from a former mayor, Peter Skoulding, in 2005. [10] The left-hand section of four bays were converted for retail use at that time. [2] After Britannia's shield and arm broke off in November 2010, the statue was restored in summer 2011. [11]
In the 2000s, it engaged in rapid nationwide expansion and became one of the UK's fastest growing retailers. [2] As of 2023, The Range has 210 stores across the UK and Ireland. In September 2023, it purchased the Wilko brand from administrators, maintaining its online presence, and began opening physical Wilko stores in December 2023. [ 3 ]