Home Retail Group plc is one of the UK's leading home and general merchandise retailers. It is the parent company of Argos, Habitat and Homebase. The Home Retail Group is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
provides credit services to customers of retails stores that belong to the group. The Company offers store cards, layaway options, monthly finance options, and other options to both business customers and individuals through the retail outlets.
Is Home Retail Group Argos?
Home Retail Group is the UK's leading home and general merchandise retailer with pro forma annual sales of over £5.8 billion. It sells products under two distinctive and complementary retail brands, Argos and Homebase, which are both household names in the UK.
Does Home Retail Group still exist?
Are Argos and Homebase the same company?
Home Retail Group plc was a home and general merchandise retailer based in the United Kingdom. It was the parent company of Argos and Habitat, and once owned the do it yourself chain Homebase before selling it to the Australian retailer Wesfarmers in February 2016.
Are Sainsburys and Homebase the same company?
Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has sold its Homebase DIY chain in a two-fold deal worth £969m. The arrangement will see its chain of stores sold to venture capitalist Schroder Ventures for £750m. Homebase currently has 283 stores around the country and employs 17,000 people.
Is Homebase and Argos the same company?
Bunnings. Home Retail Group, which owns the Argos retail chain as well as Homebase, has been put in the spotlight after it emerged that it had rejected a takeover bid from supermarket chain Sainsbury's last year.
Who owns Homebase UK now?
Hilco
Is Homebase still part of Argos?
Homebase, which was acquired by Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers earlier this year and is in the process of being transformed into its Bunnings brand, currently shares an office building with Argos.
Are Argos and Sainsbury's the same company?
Argos Limited, trading as Argos, is a catalogue retailer operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, acquired by Sainsbury's supermarket chain in 2016. It was established in November 1972 and is named after the Greek city of Argos.