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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 ...
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.
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.
The startup company was founded by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, [7] Greg Schwartz, and Chris Kaufman in 2015, [8] and launched in February 2016. [9] [10] Luber had previously founded StockX's predecessor website about rare sneakers called Campless (established during 2012–2013), [11] [12] a site which was featured in Josh Luber's TED Talk on the sneaker market. [13]
In 2018, Argo moved the listing of its shares from the NASDAQ to the New York Stock Exchange, and its ticker symbol changed from AGII to ARGO. On May 7, 2018, CEO Mark Watson III rang the opening bell of the NYSE. [26] In 2019, the company announced the retirement CEO Mark Watson III from Argo Group.
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Joann’s stock was delisted from the Nasdaq and the company became privately owned, slashing its debt and keeping all 850 stores open. LL Flooring The home retailer formerly known as Lumber ...
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