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Groupe Habitat is an international chain of stores of British origin created by Sir Terence Conran in 1973, which specialises in the sale of furniture and contemporary decorative accessories. In September 2011 it was purchased by the French group Cafom SA distribution, [ 1 ] who sold it to the industrialist Thierry Le Guénic in October 2020.
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.
Home Retail Group's businesses Argos and Habitat operated in over eight hundred stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland. The group had a 49% holding in a multi-channel general merchandise retail business in China, called HH Retail Limited, with Haier Group, one of the world's leading home appliance manufacturers, holding the remaining 51% ...
The group operates the Robey Hotel in Chicago's Wicker Park that opened in 2017. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In 2016 it also expressed an interest in opening a hotel in the Stockade District of Kingston , New York , [ 7 ] a historic Hudson Valley city north of New York City that is fast becoming a cultural hot spot, with a large local hipster culture, a strong ...
Habitat (retailer), a British home furnishings brand owned by J Sainsbury plc; Groupe Habitat, an international home furnishings retailer owned by Thierry Le Guénic; Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization devoted to building affordable housing; United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), a United Nations agency
Community-led housing (baugruppen: Germany, projets d'habitat participatif: France, habitat groupé: Belgium. social production of habitat : Latin America) is a method of forming future residents into a 'building group' who contribute to the design and development of new housing to meet their longer term needs, rather than leaving all design ...
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The word "habitat" has been in use since about 1755 and derives from the Latin habitāre, to inhabit, from habēre, to have or to hold.Habitat can be defined as the natural environment of an organism, the type of place in which it is natural for it to live and grow.