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Jan 08, 2021 News

US industry veterans offer footfall-driving advice in new book

US mattress industry veterans Mark Kinsley and Mark Quinn have launched a new book, entitled Come Back to Bed: Attract More Foot Traffic and…

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Jan 07, 2021 News

Nectar mattress parent raises £95.7m in latest funding round

Resident, a platform of digitally native brands in the mattress and home goods market, today announced that it has received an investment of…

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Jan 07, 2021 News

FIRA outlines new training curriculum

As its move to online learning continues, FIRA International has released details of a new suite of training on REACH (Registration, Evaluation,…

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Jan 06, 2021 News

New lockdown prompts Bensons to expand virtual appointments

Bensons for Beds is increasing the capacity of its virtual appointments service after it closed all its stores in line with the latest lockdown…

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Jan 06, 2021 News

Shop prices continued to decline in December

Shop prices fell in December by -1.8% – the same rate of decline as in November, reports BRC-Nielsen in its latest Shop Price Index.  This was…

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Jan 05, 2021 News

Robust online performance helps Next offset store closures

Next says that home products performed well in recent weeks, and, together with online trading, helped offset the damage incurred by store…

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Jan 05, 2021 News

Lockdown hits post-Christmas retail footfall

The latest data from Springboard reveals that post-Christmas shopper footfall across UK retail destinations declined by -23.2% WoW last week,…

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Dec 28, 2020 News

Boxing Day shopper footfall hit hard by Covid-19, says Springboard

The latest Springboard data reveals that overall footfall on Boxing Day in Tier 4, where all non-essential retail stores were closed, declined…

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Dec 28, 2020 News

Business groups respond to post-Brexit FTA agreement

Business groups have responded positively to the announcement of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the UK and the EU, while cautioning that…

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Dec 22, 2020 News

Home furnishings businesses refunding more than any other, says fintech

New data from Paymentsense reveals that small home furnishings businesses paid more refunds to customers than eany other type of business in…

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Dec 22, 2020 News

DFS bullish as it reveals resilient performance

DFS reports that gross sales in its financial year to date (the 24 weeks to 13th December 2020) have increased by +19% YoY, with gross online…

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Dec 21, 2020 News

Exhibition organiser makes new appointments

Clarion Events, the organiser of January Furniture Show (Furniture Show Birmingham), Manchester Furniture Show, Top Drawer and Home & Gift, has…

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