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Dunelm Group plc, trading as Dunelm, is a British home furnishings retailer operating in the United Kingdom. One of the largest homeware retailers in the UK, the company headquarters are in Syston, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. [2] Until 2013 the company traded as Dunelm Mill. [3]
Toolstation is a multi-channel retailer of tools and building materials. It has more than 500 branches in the UK, 90 in the Netherlands, 23 in France and 19 in Belgium. It was bought by Travis Perkins in 2014. The managing director is Angela Rushforth. [2]
Dunelm is an abbreviation of the Latin word Dunelmensis (of Durham). It is also use in the name of various things, often associated with Durham. Dunelm or dunelm may refer to: The abbreviation used in signatures by the Bishop of Durham; The post-nominal abbreviation indicating a degree awarded by the University of Durham
Adderley was a manager at a Woolworths store [3] in Coalville, but left in 1979 after the company wanted him to relocate to its Skegness store. [2]In 1979, while looking for a new job, Adderley and his wife, Jean, sold curtains which had been rejected by Marks and Spencer from a stall on Leicester market.
Up to March 2024, Toolstation had continued to grow its UK market share, opening 163 new Toolstation branches between 2020 and 2022, and adding seven more in 2023. However, its mainland Europe stores were doing less well, and Travis Perkins announced Toolstation was quitting France and reviewing its operations in Netherlands and Belgium.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Claes Dahlbäck joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -40.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Northern Upholstery was renamed DFS (although some branches of Northern Upholstery in Yorkshire retained their original name until the mid-1990s) and at the time, had a total of sixty three stores, employing 2,000 staff. [4] In 1993, DFS was floated on the stock market as DFS Furniture Company plc and valued at £271 million. [6]
In 2015, the retail park was demolished (apart from the Dunelm Mill store) and a new branch of IKEA was opened in its place in July 2016. The original plan was for a three-storey 410,000 sq ft (38,000 m 2 ) store, but in the end a reduced 342,780 sq ft (31,845 m 2 ) store over two floors was built because of the growth in online shopping.