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Argos was launched with thousands of staff, taking £1 million during a week in November. [10] Argos was purchased by BAT Industries in 1979 for £32 million. In 1980, Argos opened its Elizabeth Duke jewellery counter (named after a director's wife) and by 1982, was the United Kingdom's fourth-biggest jewellery retailer.
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 ...
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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.
In November 2008, the Alba and Bush names were purchased by Home Retail Group, the then parent company of retailers Homebase and Argos, for £15.25 million. [16] As a result, the Alba group (the former owner) reverted to its previous [ 7 ] name, Harvard International, the following year. [ 17 ]
Granville Richard Francis Tompkins CBE (15 May 1918 – 6 December 1992) was a British print, advertising and retail entrepreneur, best known for founding the Green Shield Stamps company, as well as the Argos chain of catalogue stores which became one of the largest retailers in the United Kingdom, and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Name Type Parent company Stores Cash&Carry Elbasan: Supermarket, Hypermarket Planet Kb 3 Spar: Supermarket, Hypermarket Balfin Group: 83 Conad: Supermarket, Hypermarket
Before the expanded "Argos Extra" content was added, I was told by Argos management it was over £5 a copy to print and distribute.--Mgillespie 20:51, 1 July 2007 (UTC) I can give you exactly that information, hot off the presses for Cat 68. The average unit cost to produce and distribute a catalogue is £2.07.