Furniture Village Limited is a British furnitureretailer. It has over fifty stores throughout the United Kingdom, the first of which was opened in Abingdon, and also sells online. The company is headquartered in Slough.[2] It is the largest privately owned furniture chain in the United Kingdom.[3] Their target market is the upper end of the price range for the moderately rich.[4] Their advertising has attempted to establish quality, rather than price, as the distinguishing point from competitors DFS.[5]
The company was established in 1989 by Peter Harrison and David Imrie in partnership with Cadogan Estates. Cadogan Estates sold its 70% stake in the chain to its management, led by Peter Harrison, in December 2001.[3] In August 2002, Furniture Village bought three Conroys stores from the administrators to give it a presence in North East England.[6] Also in 2002, the company launched an upmarket retail brand, the London Furniture Company,[7] but this was unsuccessful and closed in 2005.[8]
Awards
Furniture Village has won trade magazine Cabinet Maker's awards for small, medium and large retailer of the year.[4] It won the National Interiors Retailer of the Year award for 2007.[9] Furniture Village has won The National Bed Federation (NBF) award for Multiple Bed Retailer of the Year 2014/15. The award was presented at a gala dinner following the UK's largest bed exhibition, The Telford Bed Show, where the UK's leading bed retailers and suppliers were in attendance.[10]
In June 2020, they won the Retail Family Business of the Year. The company was also named Bed Retailer of the Year 2020/2021 by the National Bed Federation. They have not won anything since.
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