Industry | Retail |
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Founded | 1989 |
Founder(s) | Peter Harrison David Imrie |
Headquarters | Slough, England, UK |
Number of locations | 36 (January 2009) |
Products | Furniture |
Website | Furniture Village Website |
Furniture Village is a British furniture retailer. It has over 36 stores throughout the United Kingdom, the first of which was opened in Abingdon. The company is headquartered in Slough.[1] This is the largest privately-owned furniture chain in the United Kingdom.[2] Their target market is the upper end of the price range for the moderately rich.[3] Their advertising has attempted to establish quality, rather than price, as the distinguishing point from competitors DFS and Courts.[4]
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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.[2] In August 2002, Furniture Village bought three Conroys stores from the administrators to give it a presence in North East England.[5] Also in 2002, the company launched an upmarket retail brand, the London Furniture Company,[6] but this was unsuccessful and closed in 2005.[7]
Furniture Village has won trade magazine Cabinet Maker's awards for small, medium and large retailer of the year.[3] It won the National Interiors Retailer of the Year award for 2007.[8]