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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.
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 ...
The Range, Andover (2006) The Range, Tulip Retail Park, Leeds (2007) CDS (Superstores International) Limited, trading as The Range, is a British home, leisure and garden centre retailer, originally founded as Chris Dawson Superstores in 1989. In the 1990s, the chain rebranded to 'The Range', and had expanded across the South West by the end of ...
Stores range from large to smaller units. Other stores include Boots , WHSmith , Waterstones , Smyths , Oak Furniture Land , HomeSense , TK Maxx , Argos , Specsavers and Tapi Carpets. The retail park also has many food outlets, including Bread Meats Bread, McDonald's , Pizza Hut , Pizza Express , Tony Macaroni , Subway , Costa Coffee ...
Schreiber was a brand of fitted kitchen and furniture operating in the United Kingdom. Started in 1957 by Chaim Schreiber to make furniture, Schreiber became an extremely successful brand in furniture from the 1960s to the early 1970s, challenging both Harris Lebus and Gomme for domination. In the 1970s it became vertically integrated by ...
A Dutch court convicted five men for their part in last month's violence against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam.
The company had an independent furniture website, bhsfurniture.co.uk. [43] The stores and website sold a number of leading brands including Italsofa, G-Plan, Relyon and Silentnight. Larger homes stores, such as the Barton Square branch in the Trafford Centre, Greater Manchester, also sold the Welle cabinet range and had Sharps showrooms. [44]