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In January 2024, B&Q unveiled its plan to open its tenth local store on Staines high street. [29] Later in February, B&Q announced its increase of its hourly rate of pay for its UK employees to £12.21 and up to £13.55 in London. [30] [31] [32] Also in 2024, B&Q reported the opening of its new store in Staines. [33]
On December 5, 2000, after several dramatically unprofitable years, it announced that 67 stores would be converted to a home decorating superstore chain, House2Home, and the remainder closed. House2Home would fare no better, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 7, 2001, and ceasing operations by early 2002 after 19 years of service.
In October 2007, Home Retail Group bought twenty seven stores from Focus DIY, and converted them to the format of Homebase. [9] In June 2011, the group bought the exclusive rights to the brand of Habitat, its brand designs and intellectual property in the United Kingdom and Ireland, along with three stores in London and its website. [10]
Troubled DIY and garden chain Homebase was waiting on around £5 million of tax rebates before collapsing into administration last week. ... securing the future of up to 1,600 jobs and 70 stores ...
The chain's 265 stores in the UK and 15 in Ireland were intended to be rebranded with the Bunnings name within five years. [46] The first Bunnings store in the UK was opened at the end of January 2017 in St Albans, four months later than planned to ensure the adopted format was suited to the UK public. The company planned to use that store as a ...
In November 2024, it purchased the Homebase brand and up to 70 stores from administrators. [6] On the 17th of January 2025, it converted the first three Homebase sites to The Range fascia, with a Homebase-branded garden centre, and re-launched Homebase.co.uk at midnight on the 21st of January. [7] [8]
A home improvement center, home improvement store, or home center is a retail store that combines the functions of a hardware store with those of a lumber yard. Home improvement stores typically sell building supplies , tools , and lumber .
The channel broadcast 24 hours daily, and was produced by ETV Media Group, with four hours of live programming each weekday, and eight hours a day at weekends. [41] Viewers were able to purchase items and collect them from local Argos shops through the retailer's "check and reserve" service.