CDS Superstores
This coverage explores CDS Superstoresโ strategy and performance in the UK retail market, offering insights for executives, managers, and brand professionals. Reporting includes store openings and closures, leadership changes, marketing initiatives, financial developments, and the companyโs positioning in the value and discount retail sector. The analysis helps professionals understand CDS Superstoresโ growth plans, customer engagement strategies, and competitive approach.
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May- 2025 -30 MayEconomy
Lidl, Halfords and The Range repay staff over minimum wage breach
Lidl, Halfords and The Range are among a number of UK companies named and shamed by the Department for Business and Trade for paying some workers less than minimum wage between 2015 and 2022. Lidl failed to pay ยฃ286,437.18 to 3,423 workers, Halfords failed to pay ยฃ140,829.79 to 4,341 workers…
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7 MayHigh Street
The Range unveils new set of format stores amid Homebase acquisition
CDS Superstores, parent company of The Range and Wilko, has confirmed the next raft of openings for its new-format superstores, following the acquisition of the Homebase brand and up to 70 of its stores. Building on earlier plans to convert 45 former Homebase stores across the country as The Range…
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Mar- 2025 -24 MarchDIY
The Range opens new superstore concept in Ruislip
UK home, leisure and garden retailer, The Range, has opened a new superstore in Ruislip featuring its first โKitchens by Homebaseโ concept. The โKitchens by Homebaseโ is the latest addition to be introduced to The Range superstores allowing customers to find their โdream kitchenโ, with design specialists on hand to…
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Feb- 2025 -26 FebruaryHigh Street
M&S and John Lewis top list for highest female board representation
M&S and John Lewis are among several retailers who are leading the way for gender equality in boardrooms. According to the FTSE Women Leaders Review report for 2025, women now occupy nearly 43% โ or a total of 1,275 โ of roles on company boards in the UK.ย A number…
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Jan- 2025 -17 JanuaryNews-In-Brief
Today’s news in brief-17/1/25
Retail sales in the UK fell by 0.3% in December, disappointing analysts who anticipated a 0.4% rise during the Christmas season. The decline, attributed to the poorest supermarket sales since 2013, was partly offset by a 4.4% rise in clothing sales. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that food…
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17 JanuaryDIY
CDS to open three more Range sites in former Homebase locations
CDS Superstores will be opening three new The Range sites in former Homebase stores in Stroud, Leicester and Blandford Forum on 31 January.ย The openings are the latest step in the groupโs transformation of up to 70 ex-Homebase sites since CDS acquired them in November 2024.ย According to CDS Superstores,…
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Nov- 2024 -14 NovemberNews-In-Brief
Today’s news in brief-14/11/24
The Range and Wilko owner, CDS Superstores, has acquired 70 Homebase stores after the DIY retailer entered administration. This move, intended to save about 1,600 jobs, will allow Homebase stores to continue operating under CDS while administrators from Teneo Financial Advisory manage the transition. Homebaseโs decline, attributed to low consumer…
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14 NovemberDIY
CDS Superstores acquires 70 Homebase stores out of administration
The Range and Wilko owner CDS Superstores has acquired 70 Homebase UK stores after the DIY retailer collapsed into administration. Gavin Park, Gavin Maher and Adele Macleod of Teneo Financial Advisory Limited were appointed as joint administrators of HHGL Limited and Hampden Group Limited, which trade under the Homebase name.…
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13 NovemberDIY
Homebase readies to bring in administrators
Homebase are reportedly lining up administrators from Teneo to handle a pre-pack deal with The Range that will save over 1,500 jobs, Sky News has learned. While The Range is said to be readying a deal to snap up a majority of the DIY retailerโs stores, the future of the…
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Oct- 2024 -15 OctoberNews
Wilko partners with Deliveroo for home delivery
Wilko has partnered with Deliveroo to give customers access to on-demand delivery of Wilko products delivered directly to their doors in as little as 25 minutes. As the 90-year-old retailer continues its return to the high street with new stores across the country, this partnership will see more than 3,000…
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