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‘Staycation’ is good news for buoyant Homebase

21.10.09
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

Comet and Homebase add to High-Street cheer

10.09.09
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

Home Retail profits from rivals’ demise

11.06.09
Home Retail Group showed the upside to the financial crisis as it indicated it is benefiting from the collapse of various High Street rivals ... more

Homebase struggles as shoppers dry up

29.04.09
How do you run a consumer-facing business in the teeth of a recession? With great difficulty, says Home Retail Group boss Terry Duddy ... more

Sales lift for Home Retail from rivals' departure

12.03.09
The demise of Woolworths and MFI is keeping the wolf from the door at Argos and Homebase... more

Home Retail hit despite gains from rivals’ demise

12.03.09
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

DSG sales slide 10% as UK shoppers cut spending

15.01.09
Retail: Britain's biggest electrical retailer DSG International sank deeper into the mire as shoppers cut back spending on big-ticket items and wait to buy computers and TVs ... more

Home Retail Group braced for unhappy Christmas sales

22.10.08
Retail: Home Retail Group is braced for the worst Christmas in years after revealing that trading in the past few weeks has been disastrous... more

Gordon finally has to use that R-word

22.10.08
Gordon Brown finally admitted that Britain is heading into recession as new figures showed sales on the high street are plunging... more

High Street downturn catches up with Argos

11.09.08
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

Homebase hit by high street slump

12.06.08
The hardware superstore is suffering as Homebase show a worse-than-predicted sales slump... more

Bad weather and slowdown shake Homebase owner

30.04.08
Home Retail Group close to a profits warning after a shocking downturn at Homebase... more

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