02 May 2024, 08:01

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May 01, 2024 News

Bedmaker partners with celebrity designer

Bedmaker Harrison Spinks has teamed up with designer – and BBC’s The Great British Sewing Bee judge – Patrick Grant to champion British craftmanship…

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May 01, 2024 News

Vinterior takes aim at "fast furniture' in new ad campaign

Sustainable online vintage marketplace Vinterior has launched a London-wide campaign blitz that "playfully pokes" at the mass-produced, flat-pack…

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May 01, 2024 News

Next's spring sales exceed expectations

Next reports that full-price sales were up +5.7% YoY over the 13 weeks to 27th April, slightly ahead of the retailer's guidance for this period…

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Apr 30, 2024 Event Preview

Long Point’s spring show in bloom

The Long Point show is back in Long Eaton from 13-15th May, with its biggest (spring) exhibitor roster for many years, says Andrew Mitchell, chairman…

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NEWS


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May 01, 2024 News

Bedmaker partners with celebrity designer

Bedmaker Harrison Spinks has teamed up with designer – and BBC’s The Great British Sewing Bee judge – Patrick Grant to champion British craftmanship…

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May 01, 2024 News

Vinterior takes aim at "fast furniture' in new ad campaign

Sustainable online vintage marketplace Vinterior has launched a London-wide campaign blitz that "playfully pokes" at the mass-produced, flat-pack…

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May 01, 2024 News

Next's spring sales exceed expectations

Next reports that full-price sales were up +5.7% YoY over the 13 weeks to 27th April, slightly ahead of the retailer's guidance for this period…

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Apr 30, 2024 News

Inflation brought to a heel, says BRC-NielsenIQ

Shop price annual inflation eased to 0.8% in April – its lowest since December 2021, and down from 1.3% in March – according to the latest Shop…


EVENTS


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Apr 30, 2024 Event Preview

Long Point’s spring show in bloom

The Long Point show is back in Long Eaton from 13-15th May, with its biggest (spring) exhibitor roster for many years, says Andrew Mitchell, chairman…

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Apr 22, 2024 Event Preview

Furniture champion to cut ribbon at inaugural expo

An MP who worked in the furniture sector for 15 years will officially open the first-ever Furniture Component Expo, hosted by British Furniture…

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Apr 18, 2024 Event Preview

Free campaign planning event for home and garden marketers

Door4, a digital marketing agency specialising in the homes and gardens sector, is promising to arm marketers with the insights they need to improve…

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Apr 16, 2024 Event Preview

Norfolk's John Doe of Diss to host charity golf day

John Doe of Diss, a prominent independent furniture retailer in Norfolk, has announced its upcoming charity golf day in aid of The Furniture Makers'…


PROFILES


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Apr 17, 2024 Profiles

Winner: The Furniture Awards 2024 (Superior Service)

A technical agency specialising in web-based business solutions, Iconography boasts a growing roster of satisfied customers, and its recent project…

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Apr 12, 2024 Profiles

Mammoth’s comfort-driven comeback

Having negotiated myriad challenges, healthy sleep brand Mammoth has emerged fitter than ever, says its founder and CEO, John Tuton …

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Apr 10, 2024 Profiles

Hypnos looks ahead

In October 2022, driven by a desire to secure its long-term future, Hypnos embarked on a period of transformation which culminated this February with…

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Mar 14, 2024 Profiles

Winner: The Furniture Awards 2024 (Best of British)

The Furniture Awards returned at this year’s January Furniture Show, to single out the suppliers setting the pace in their respective fields.…


INTERVIEWS


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Apr 22, 2024 Interviews

60 seconds with … Jarrad Belton

To mark its 60th anniversary, The Furniture Makers’ Company looked to the future by highlighting 60 of the industry’s most promising young…

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Apr 04, 2024 Interviews

Simon Fishpool on 125 years of furniture retail

Fishpools of Waltham Cross is one of the South East’s biggest retailers of quality furniture, and a destination popular with shoppers from…

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Mar 26, 2024 Interviews

Getting personal: Greg French, Westgarth

Ambitious innovator Greg is a director at Westgarth, a UK furniture agency working with premium brands from Europe and beyond (currently La…

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Mar 25, 2024 Interviews

Arighi Bianchi's MD on equality and equity in the furniture industry

To mark this year's International Women’s Day, Furniture News once again quizzed some of the industry's top female professionals about women's…


TRENDS


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Feb 15, 2024 Trends

Dreams' Fabio Perrotta talks trends

Looking for a steer on the upcoming (and outgoing) furniture and interiors trends? In January's issue, Fabio Perrotta, Dreams' director of…

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Feb 02, 2024 Trends

Oak Furnitureland's Elena Mellowes talks upcoming trends

Looking for a steer on the upcoming (and outgoing) furniture and interiors trends? In January's issue, Elena Mellowes, the head of buying at Oak…

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Jan 11, 2024 Trends

Furniture trend forecast 2024/25

Looking for a steer on the upcoming (and outgoing) furniture and interiors trends? Furniture News has again collated insights from some of the…

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Jan 10, 2024 Trends

New IKEA report reveals correlation between homes and happiness

IKEA Retail (Ingka Group) has published its 10th annual Life at Home Report, one of the world's biggest annual studies into how people live and…


PRODUCTS


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Apr 29, 2024 Products

New Tulipwood product a "game-changer" for cabinetmakers and joiners

James Latham, in collaboration with long-term sawmill partner Horizon, is introducing a "pioneering" new timber product to the UK and Ireland –…

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Apr 29, 2024 Products

Habitat unveils 60th anniversary collection

Habitat has announced an upcoming collection in collaboration with a line-up of top design minds, launching in May.

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Apr 25, 2024 Products

John Lewis ‘clicks’ with EasyKlix by Forte

The innovative EasyKlix by Forte furniture range has been launched exclusively in the UK for 2024, at the John Lewis flagship London store in Oxford…

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Apr 16, 2024 Products

DFI Beds partners with Erin McGregor on new collection

Ireland's DFI Beds has launched Dream Whisperer, a new collection developed in collaboration with brand ambassador Erin McGregor as part of her…

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