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The centre is the major shopping centre in the London Borough of Lewisham. Also part of the complex is the Lewisham House office tower, formerly occupied by Citibank. [2] There are proposals to convert this building to flats. [3] The centre is located in Lewisham town centre and was built over the former streets Rhyme Road and Romer Avenue. [4]
GUS plc acquired Argos in April 1998, and combined it with its mail order business to form Argos Retail Group (ARG) in June 2000. [4] It went on to acquire Homebase for £900 million in November 2002, bringing it into ARG. [5] In June 2005, GUS bought thirty three stores of Index, which were subsequently converted to the format of Argos. [6]
Argos Limited is a British retailer operating in the United Kingdom online and through catalogues, and formerly in Ireland; it was acquired by Sainsbury's supermarket chain in 2016. It was established in November 1972 and is named after the Greek city Argos. [5]
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.
Lewisham (/ ˈ l uː ɪ ʃ əm / ⓘ LOO-ish-əm) is an area of southeast London, England, six miles (ten kilometres) south of Charing Cross.It is the principal area of the London Borough of Lewisham, and was within the historic county of Kent until 1889.
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The Alba Group was bought by the Home Retail Group, the parent company of the retailer Argos in 2008, who in turn was taken over by J Sainsbury plc in 2016. [1] The Alba brand was quietly dropped by Sainsbury's in 2022 and replaced by its more upmarket sister brand Bush. [1] [3]
After a four-month pursuit, in April 2016 Home Retail Group agreed to be taken over by Sainsbury's for £1.4 billion. Sainsbury's completed the acquisition in September 2016. [104] [105] The deal included catalogue chain Argos and furnishing retailer Habitat. As a result, the new Sainsbury's group was organised into four divisions: the core ...