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B&Q Limited (short for Block & Quayle after the company's two founders) is a British multinational DIY and home improvement retailing company, with headquarters in Eastleigh, England. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kingfisher plc .
Handforth Dean is a retail park in Handforth, Cheshire, England; it opened in 1995, alongside the A34. It contains four superstores: Marks & Spencer , Tesco Extra , JD Sports [ 1 ] and Boots . Large Next and Pets at Home stores are sited on a development adjacent to the retail park.
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.
Laury had worked at Kingfisher for eleven years, including roles at B&Q. [20] [21] In June 2017, Andy Cosslett succeeded Daniel Bernard as chairman. [22] [23] In March 2019, it was announced that Laury would be leaving the business at a date to be announced, following the failure of her "One Kingfisher" plan, and a 52.8% collapse in pre tax ...
Screwfix Direct Limited, trading as Screwfix, is a retailer of trade tools, accessories and hardware products based in the United Kingdom. [6] Founded in 1979 as the Woodscrew Supply Company, the company was acquired in July 1999 by Kingfisher plc, which also owns B&Q, and is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Kingfisher plc – is a multinational retail company with subsidiaries including B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt and Screwfix. It was established in 1982 as Paternoster Stores in order to buyout the British Woolworths chain after which it became Woolworth Holdings. Its acquisition of Woolworths Ltd included B&Q.
Focus DIY, Belper, Derbyshire (2005) Focus DIY, Rawtenstall, Rossendale (2012) Focus was a British do-it-yourself and home improvement retailer, founded in 1987.. The retailer grew by acquiring rival retailers such as Payless, Do It All and Great Mills; by its peak in 2002, it was the second-largest home improvement retailer in the United Kingdom with 178 stores and over 3,000 employees ...
This deal eventually made Focus Group the UK's second largest home improvement retailer, behind B&Q. [7] 36 Focus stores were rebranded to Focus DIY, growing Wickes from 131 stores in October 2000 to 172 in March 2004. [8] In December 2004, Focus Group sold Wickes to Travis Perkins. [9] The sale was completed in February 2005. [10]