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HomeBase was a home improvement warehouse chain in the Western United States based in Irvine, California. History. Robert J. McNulty and George Handgis founded the ...
Under the terms of the agreement with Sainsbury's to acquire Home Retail Group, for each Home Retail Group share, shareholders received 0.321 new Sainsbury’s shares and 55p per share. As a result of the sale of Homebase, they also received 25p per share, plus the year's dividend as a final dividend payment. [22]
Sainsbury's sold the Homebase chain in December 2000, in a twofold deal worth £969 million. Sales of the stores to Schroder Ventures generated £750 million and sale of 28 development sites, which had been earmarked for future Homebase shops, were sold for £219 million to rival B&Q's parent company, Kingfisher plc. [32]
Since Sainsbury's acquired Argos, more and more standalone stores have been moved into a nearby Sainsbury's store. On 25 September 2019, Sainsbury's announced that over 50 Argos stores would be closing or relocating in order to cut costs. Stores also began to feature digital computers as well as printed catalogues to save costs.
The new head office was part of a major development by London-based property developer Petros and was set to include residential, retail, hospitality and office space. Dawson has indicated a long-held ambition to commit The Range to a long-term future and its head office jobs to Plymouth, the city where he has lived most of his life.
In December 2000, Kingfisher plc acquired 28 development sites, intended to house future shops of rival chain Homebase from Sainsbury's, who sold the chain. [16] The development sites instead housed shops of B&Q. In August 2001, B&Q opened its first shop in Shanghai, when it hoped to increase outlets from four to 58 by 2005. [17] [18]
In 2018, the business opened two new standalone stores - one in Westfield White City as part of the extension of the shopping centre which was planned to attract more homeware and lifestyle brands and the other in Brighton; this was the location of one of Habitat's most successful Homebase concessions. Sainsbury's announced in November 2020 ...
As part of the acquisition, 26 Texas stores closed and Sainsbury's converted the remaining stores to the Homebase brand. [4] The conversion to Homebase was completed in 1999, when the Texas Homecare brand was discontinued. [5] In 2000, the former chief executive of Texas Homecare, Ron Trenter, made an unsuccessful bid for Homebase. [6]