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Argos Limited is a British retailer operating in the United Kingdom online and through catalogues, and formerly in Ireland; it was acquired by Sainsbury's supermarket chain in 2016. It was established in November 1972 and is named after the Greek city of Argos . [ 5 ]
The company acquired Argos in 1998 in a hostile takeover bid [127] [19] and the UK's second largest online retailer at the time, Jungle.com, in 2000 for £37 million. [ 128 ] Argos Retail Group (2000-2006)
Home Retail Group plc was a British retail company established on 10 October 2006, following the spin-off of Argos Retail Group (ARG) from GUS plc. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The group primarily comprised two retailers: Argos and Homebase, as well as in-house brands such as Chad Valley and Habitat. In April 2007, the ...
It was announced in March 2005 that part of the Index chain of catalogue shops was to be sold to GUS plc (then owner of Argos) and the remainder was to be closed. [12] In July 2005, Associated British Foods purchased the 120-branch Littlewoods retail chain on behalf of its retail subsidiary Primark for £409 million. Some of the stores were ...
U.K. retailer Argos offers a baffling new take on the Christmas tree. Chris Morris. Updated November 20, 2024 at 5:11 PM. Christmas, in many households, is a holiday of tradition. Dinners and ...
Bush is a British consumer electronics brand owned by J Sainsbury plc (Sainsbury's), the parent company of the retailer Argos. [1] The former Bush company is one of the most famous manufacturers of early British radios. The company is now defunct, but the Bush brand name survives as a private label brand for budget electronics.
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.
He became managing director of Argos Ltd., the U.K.'s largest general merchandise retailer, in February 2012 [5] and was promoted to chief executive officer of Argos' parent company, Home Retail Group in March 2014. [6] [7] In 2016, it was announced that Walden would be stepping down as the CEO of Home Retail Group upon sale of the group to ...