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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]
The in-store concession opened in 2017 in the Sainsbury's hypermarket in Calcot, Berkshire was actually a re-instalment, as that store sold Habitat products in the late 1980s and early 1990s when it was a SavaCentre (a 50:50 BHS-Sainsbury Joint Enterprise) hypermarket when both BHS and Habitat were part of Storehouse plc.
Dino Baia Adriano (24 April 1943 – 9 May 2018) [1] [2] was a British businessman, and a chief executive of Sainsbury's, as well as being a director of Homebase, Shaws and a trustee of Oxfam. He was noted in financial circles for trying to turn round the fortunes of Sainsbury's after they lost their number one spot to Tesco .
Nectar is a loyalty card scheme in the United Kingdom run by Nectar 360 Limited, [2] [1] company wholly owned by Sainsbury's. The scheme is the largest in the United Kingdom, and comprises a number of partner companies including Sainsbury's, Esso, Argos and British Airways. It launched in 2002 with initially four partner companies, and by 2010 ...
Sainsbury's Compare and Save was a comparison and switching service website that promoted a wide range of television, broadband and telephone deals from a variety of providers. The service, free to Sainsbury's customers, claimed to list 15,000 different packages. The website and service launched in 2008 and was operated by SimplifyDigital. [176]
At the time of the purchase, Texas had more than 11,600 staff, while Homebase had c. 4,500. 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]
Simon John Roberts (born 26 January 1971) is a British businessman, and the chief executive officer (CEO) of Sainsbury's since 1 June 2020, having previously been retail operations director. He is a former managing director of Boots UK .