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Barker and Stonehouse is a British independent furniture retailer. It has been a family-run firm since 1946 and was established in Stockton, County Durham.. Barker and Stonehouse stock a range of furniture including sofas, beds, dining room tables, chairs, office furniture, and children's furniture as well as designer brands such as Timothy Oulton, Stressless, Tempur and Ercol.
The store was sold to Busbys of Bradford in 1953 who rebranded the store under the Busbys name. Busbys was itself purchased by Debenhams in 1958. The store was renamed Debenhams in 1973 and continued to trade from the same site until Debenhams' closure in 2021. 1953 [190] [271] A H Bull Reading: Bought by Selfridge Provincial Stores.
Sofa.com is a UK-based company founded in 2006 whose primary business is selling sofas, sofabeds, chairs and beds online. It has 3 showrooms in London (Chelsea, Bankside and Islington) as well as Nottingham, Bath, Glasgow, Harrogate and Guildford. More recently, it has also opened concessions in some House of Fraser department stores. [1]
By the end of 2010 the company had 24 stores, including a concession in House of Fraser, and had locations across the UK, including Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester and Glasgow. [9] In July 2013, the original founders formed a new company Coin Furniture Ltd (CFL). In February 2014, Dwell entered into a marketing partnership with larger retailer ...
In 1969, aged 22, Graham Kirkham was married with two children, which he describes as great motivation. [4]Having visited a few manufacturers in his daily work, he decided that making furniture was relatively easy and that by cutting out the warehouse dealers in the middle of the supply chain, he could sell direct to the public at lower prices.
Oak Furnitureland is a British furniture retailer specialising in fully assembled hardwood cabinet and dining furniture, and sofa ranges. The company has stores across the UK, with its headquarters in Swindon in Wiltshire , England.
Sofology started out as CSL Sofas, and was originally an auction rooms based in Clayton-le-Moors, Accrington, Lancashire. In 1982, after including catalogue seconds lounge furniture, they moved into specialist sofa retail and manufacture. The company originally started as a high street store chain, selling only its own products. [citation needed]
Founded as Popular Merchandise, Inc, during the 1980s the business expanded into the catalogue market with Popular Club Plan. In 1989 the business became J. Crew and opened its first retail shop. Its first UK shop opened in Regents Street in 2011. Jacamo