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B&Q was founded in March 1969 in Southampton, England, by Richard Block and David Quayle, following the purchase and fitting out of a former furniture warehouse in the Southampton suburb of Portswood. [4]
Quayle was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire and went to school at Brighton College in 1950. He returned to the school to be a governor in the 1990s. [3]Quayle worked in the Marley Tile company in the 1960s and together with his brother-in-law Richard Block started the B&Q retail chain in 1969 in Southampton.
It was strong enough to be felt several miles away. The bomb damaged a three-storey B&Q DIY superstore and a steel-framed warehouse, and severely damaged warehouse property constructed of light cladding. It was estimated the explosive force was around 100 kg. [4] An eyewitness said the B&Q store was "completely destroyed" and the roof collapsed ...
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The company planned to use that store as a test model prior to fine-tuning and expanding in that region. In April 2017, they bought a former B&Q store in Folkestone to be the fifth Bunnings store in the UK. [47] On 25 May 2018, after mounting losses, Wesfarmers sold the UK and Ireland Bunnings/Homebase operation to Hilco for a nominal sum of £ ...
While Kingfisher announced that most of them would be converted into B&Q Warehouse stores, others would be converted into Big W stores. In August 1999, they officially announced that the former 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m 2 ) Co-Op Homeworld unit in Coventry would become the second Big W store, for an October opening date. [ 5 ]
This was the 10th death recorded in a B&Q store. [2] Subsequently B&Q Ireland Ltd pleaded guilty to failing to ensure a safe workplace and were fined €250,000 at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in July 2011. [3] During 2010 in Exeter at the Sowton B&Q store, they were found guilty of breaking health and safety laws.
B&Q Holywood Exchange opened in August 2003. Sainsbury's Holywood Exchange opened in September 2003 with a sales area of 3,809 m 2 (41,000 ft 2 ) [ 8 ] The retail warehouse units were not let after completion; they are “the subject of strict guidelines that dictate that only bulky goods can be sold” as a result of the legal challenges to ...