The gap between the performance of Argos, seller of consumer electronics to the masses, and Homebase, DIY store for the mortgaged middle classes, is widening... more
The environment may be low on the priorities list of many City slickers, but they certainly know how to recycle. Rumours again spread in the Square Mile today that an admirer is eyeing up Home Retail Group, sending shares in the company behind Homebase and Argos up 4.5p to 202p.... more
Further evidence of just how squeezed working families are arrives in the form of a profit downgrade from Home Retail Group, the Argos and Homebase shopping giant... more
Traders dump shares in some of Britain’s most famed High Street names after a slew of updates from leading retailers fail to impress the market... more
Sales at the catalogue retailer Argos tumbled 6.5% in the six months to August, while revenues at Homebase were relatively stable, down just 0.8%... more
From Britons holidaying at home this year and getting their kicks instead by splashing out on swish new tellies to householders looking to tart up their fallen-value homes, Argos and Homebase have had a good recession ... more
The flow of good news from the High Street continued today, with upbeat numbers from the Home Retail Group and electricals firm Kesa, which owns Comet ... more
The Bay Area’s Maker culture, which I wrote about a few months back, had its fourth big annual outing last weekend when some 80,000 people attended the two-day Maker Faire in San Mateo, at the Valley’s northern edge ... more
Shares in Home Retail Group were plunging toward new lows, off 16p at 188p, as the Argos and Homebase group admitted it would be doing a lot worse but for the demise of Woolworths and MFI... more
Recently I found myself bitterly regretting a moment of madness in the summer. One hot Saturday I drove to Homebase to get electric fans for the children's bedrooms... more
There were fears for hundreds of jobs at Homebase after it emerged that cost-cutting at the struggling DIY chain will include widespread redundancies.... more
Argos, the High Street catalogue retailer which had up to now bucked the trend of slower consumer spending, now admits it is no longer immune to the downturn... more
Motorists are being encouraged to become "white van men" - after a leading car club unveiled plans to put VW Transporters at 150 new sites across the capital... more
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