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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.
Groupe Habitat is an international chain of stores of British origin created by Sir Terence Conran in 1973, which specialises in the sale of furniture and contemporary decorative accessories. In September 2011 it was purchased by the French group Cafom SA distribution, [ 1 ] who sold it to the industrialist Thierry Le Guénic in October 2020.
J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, [a] is a British supermarket and the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom.. Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company was the largest UK retailer of groceries for most of the 20th century.
Sainsbury's Freezer Centres: 1974 Bought by Bejam: 1986 Sainsburys opened the chain of freezer shops to try and compete with the new style of food store, with the first store opening in Southbourne near Bournemouth. By 1980 there was 21 freezer centres, but these were sold off in 1986 to Bejam. Sainsbury's Savacentre: 1977
Home Retail Group's businesses Argos and Habitat operated in over eight hundred stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland. The group had a 49% holding in a multi-channel general merchandise retail business in China, called HH Retail Limited, with Haier Group , one of the world's leading home appliance manufacturers, holding the remaining 51% ...
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.
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Bells Stores: Bought by Sainsbury's in 2004, branded as Sainsbury's at Bells before being converted to Sainsbury's Local [36] Small chain of 54 convenience shops in the North East England: Botterils Convenience Shops: c.1950s Bought by Scotmid in 2010. [37] Small chain of 51 convenience shops in Scotland: Central Shops 2013 Conviviality Retail ...