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Barker and Stonehouse is a British independent furniture retailer. It has been a family-run firm since 1946 and was established in Stockton, County Durham.. Barker and Stonehouse stock a range of furniture including sofas, beds, dining room tables, chairs, office furniture, and children's furniture as well as designer brands such as Timothy Oulton, Stressless, Tempur and Ercol.
In 1882, aged 14, William Barker, started an apprenticeship at the Oxendales drapers store in Northallerton. In 1907 he became a partner in the business and it was renamed to Oxendale & Barker, however in 1919 the remaining shares were bought from the Oxendale family and the business became fully owned by Barker.
A money-back guarantee, also known as a satisfaction guarantee, is essentially a simple guarantee that, if a buyer is not satisfied with a product or service, a refund will be made. The 18th century entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood pioneered many of the marketing strategies used today, including the satisfaction-or-money-back guarantee on the ...
Obadiah Truax Barker had owned upholstery and mattress shops in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. [1]In 1880, Barker was visiting Los Angeles on a trip from Colorado Springs to San Jose, California, when he overheard an outraged Otto Müller at a horticultural exhibition complain about the high cost of furnishing his home from the only large furniture store in the city at the time. [1]
DFS Furniture plc, trading as dfs, is a furniture retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland specialising in sofas and soft furnishings. It is listed on the London ...
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In 1870 John Barker and James Whitehead opened a small drapery business at 91–93 Kensington High Street. James Whitehead (a city merchant) was the investor, while John Barker ran the store. [ 1 ] John Barker's plan was to start small and grow his business to a full-line department store.
The Guarantee Clause reflects a founding understanding of republicanism, which entails governing through electoral processes. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As written in the Federalist No. 57 : "The elective mode of obtaining rulers is the characteristic policy of republican government."