Laura Ashley has warned that profitability will be ‘significantly’ below expectations after ‘very demanding’ trading conditions.

Carpetright has seen an improvement in its UK performance in the past 12 weeks.

Bed manufacturer Harrison Spinks has been awarded its fifth Queens Award for Enterprise.

Luxury furniture manufacturer Silverlining Furniture has been awarded a second Queen’s Award for Enterprise.

John Lewis enjoyed a double-digit sales increase in the past week.

Somerset furniture retailer Sopha is to officially open on Saturday.

Growing flooring distributor Likewise has completed its deal to buy Heatseam.

Next year’s Domotex flooring exhibition is to highlight wellbeing, naturalness and sustainability as it selects Atmysphere as its key theme.

Rent to buy retailer Brighthouse has named a former Thomas Cook and Virgin Money executive as its chief executive.

Outdoor furniture helped lift home sales at John Lewis into the black in the past week.

Furnishing exhibition imm cologne is to see a restructuring from next year’s show.

Salone del Mobile saw a double-digit increase in visitor numbers last week.

Debenhams is set to have a new chief executive, days after its pre-pack administration saw its creditors take ownership of the chain.

Designer Jaime Hayon is renowned for his playful approach to design and his latest, Elefy for &Tradition, is no exception.

Natuzzi unveiled its third Marcel Wanders designed collection: the Dandy.

The stylistic hallmark of Moroso’s Heartbreaker sofas lies in the design of the armrests, which represent the halves of a heart, or a broken heart.

Illulian celebrated its 60th anniversary by introducing several rug designs at its city centre showroom.

For Novamobili the key story was all about colour at Salone.

Talenti introduced a series of designs by Ludovica + Roberto Palomba.

At Salone Living Divani worked with New York designer Stephen Burks for the first time with Islands (pictured), a family of free standing storage units accessible from different sides, thanks to a perimeter of wooden slats which appear to have been randomly fitted.

Thea, the new, romantic armchair from Fendi Casa at Salone, is enhanced by leather braiding on the backrest.

Baleri Italia presented First at Salone, a new family of tables designed by Baldessari and Baldessari.

Debenhams looks likely to be heading for administration and be taken over by its creditors after Sports Direct accused its directors of deceit and lying.

Vinyl is increasingly becoming the flooring ‘product of choice’, according to new research.

Nick Coburn, Ulster Carpets group md and deputy chairman has received his CBE from the Duke of Cambridge at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

Polyflor owner James Halstead has seen profits rise 3.3% on flat sales.

In a Facebook post his wife Moira said: ‘It is with deep sadness that I have to tell you that my crazy, mad, brilliant husband Matt died at 7:50 on 29 March 2019 in St Michael’s Hospice, St Leonards. It was very peaceful and he was surrounded by family: myself, Evie and Finlay and his mum and dad were by his side.

Topps Tiles has seen an upturn in sales in recent months, which it says is largely down to milder weather.

Scandi bedroom and living room chain JYSK is to add another two UK stores in the summer.

John Lewis has seen a double-digit drop in sales in the past week which it has blamed on Easter being later and warmer weather.

More consumers are now purchasing their mattresses online rather than in a store.

Featuring a slide, a gym and a wooden treehouse, Woodpecker Flooring’s new office and showroom is different from the average workplace.

Landlords this afternoon agreed to Carpetright’s Company Voluntary Agreement, taking it one step closer to closing dozens of stores.

Eamonn Prescott, Adam Carpets sales director is to leave the carpet manufacturer next month.

The Chinese owner of famed toy store Hamleys could become the majority shareholder on House of Fraser.

Last week’s sunshine and high temperatures boosted home sales at John Lewis.

Carpetright’s largest shareholder has upped its stake in the chain to the maximum it is allowed before having to launch a takeover just days ahead of Carpetright’s vital CVA meeting.

It was obvious on the ground and now Salone del Mobile has confirmed it: visitor numbers to last week’s show were up by a huge amount.

A top Ikea executive says that increased online shopping will help the furniture chain.

Saba added to its Kepi collection with a 160 cm two-seat sofa.

Bix was among B-Line’s introductions

Flou celebrated its 40th anniversary, and that of its Nathalie bed.

The Italian-Danish creative couple Gamfratesi increased its importance in Porro’s catalogue while Carlo Tamborini debuted his first design for the company.

Potocco unveiled the results of working with six designers or partnerships for the first time alongside established collaborators.

What unites Manchester City and Arflex? Triangles.

Frag introduced Riviera, by the Dainelli Studio of Marzia and Leo Dainelli, in their first collaboration with Frag.

Quartz manufacturer Caesarstone returned to Fuorisalone for the sixth time, to unveil Altered States, its designer collaboration programme with New York-based collaborative practice Snarkitecture. Being this the year of Eurocucina, the collaboration explores the core theme of the kitchen island.

The space&interiors exhibition at Porta Nuova imagined life on Mars in 2117 and how it could impact on design, technology and the environment on Earth.

Brazilian furniture maufacturer Sollos was among those taking part in The Litta Variations exhibition at Litta Palazzo.

Away from Rho, events and launches are taking place across the city as part of Fuorisalone.

Alias continued its partnership with French designer Patrick Norguet, to introduce Iko, a family of chairs that give tangible shape to the evolution of a program that started in 2012 with the Kobi collection.

MisuraEmme introduced the Over living system, designed by Castiglia Associati Studio.

Recasting in a contemporary key the Windsor chairs with their timeless charm, Newood is the result of a new collaboration between Cappellini and the designer duo Alberto Brogliato and Federico Traverso.

Designed by Elena Salmistraro, Flatlandia was one of nine collections debuted by cc-tapis.

In the Garage storage pieces, the Mimetica finish - with a particular texture that resembles marble - is reinterpreted by bold chromatic contrasts.

Sealy UK has opened a trade showroom in Greater Manchester.

The Furniture Makers’ Company has boosted its corporate membership with a quartet of companies from the bed, fabric, flooring and office furniture sectors joining the interiors industry charity.

 Bed chain Dreams topped The Sunday Times Profit Track 100 of the country’s private companies with the fastest-growing profits.

Beds and upholstery group Airsprung Group has eliminated waste going to landfill.

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Of the three categories of stores Carpetright is considering closing over the next three years, 92 are earmarked to close from 23 September onwards. 11 of the branches are already non-trading.

Just 195 of Carpetright’s 426 UK stores are considered core to the business, while it needs a further £15m of funding before raising £60m from shareholders in early June: just over three weeks since raising £12.5m from shareholder Meditor.

Carpetright wants to close 92 of its 426 UK stores and cut the rent on a further 113 in order to ‘restore the viability of the group’s business model’.

Domotex will adopt the theme of Create’N’Connect for the 2019 show, while more than half of the exhibition’s space has been sold.

Vogue Beds has recruited a new sales agent for Yorkshire and the north-east of England.

Adjustable bed and upholstery manufacturer Furmanac cut costs by £2.5m in the past financial year.

Victoria is to reward its senior management if its share price increases by a fifth in a year.

Furniture brand Timothy Oulton is to open a flagship store in London.

Home sales slipped at John Lewis last week, although some product categories saw double-digit increases.

The Shire Bed Company has increased its sponsorship of Yorkshire County Cricket Club by becoming a shirt sponsor.

Cormar Carpets has opened to its new southern regional distribution centre at Hemel Hempstead, which will service customers in East Anglia and the South East of England.

Invictus by Associated Weavers has been selected as the official carpet of the BMW PGA Championship.

B&B Italia Group has signed an agreement with the heirs of famed Italian designer Luigi Caccia Dominioni to produce and distribute, with an exclusive license, a selection of Caccia Dominioni’s iconic products.

John Lewis saw record sales in some product categories as Easter delivered a major sales boost.

James Appleyard has become sales director at Deluxe Beds.

House of Fraser’s main shareholder is set to inject another £15m into the chain, just a week after doing so.

Bed manufacturer Hypnos has been declared as carbon neutral for the seventh consecutive year. 

A largely wet Bank Holiday weekend saw retail footfall closely tied to the weather.

AIS members have chosen Hypnos as AIS bed supplier of the year for the third successive year.

DFS has turned to Ian Durant to succeed Richard Baker as non-executive chairman.

Online mattress retailer Eve Sleep could be valued at £200m as it looks to raise funds from investors, according to a report.

German kitchen giant Häcker Kitchens has made the largest investment in its history buying two plots of land to allow the €512m company to expand.

Stuart Page has returned to Dreamworks Beds as its new sales director.

Silentnight Group has become the latest manufacturer to join the BFM.

Geoff Wilding, Victoria executive chairman has today raised almost £20m from selling shares in the flooring group.

Carpetright shares are continuing to fluctuate in value after plunging on news of a slowdown in sales growth and a lowering of profit expectations.

For the first time since it introduced it in 1978, luxury bed manufacturer Hästens has reimagined its signature blue check fabric with the new Appaloosa and Marwari beds, both of which use the construction of the Hästens 2000T bed.

Carpet tile manufacturer Interface has entered the LVT market, with the 28-strong Level Set collection.

National Museums Scotland has acquired a rare example of furniture designed by Sir Basil Spence, one of the leading British architects of the 20th century, and manufactured by Morris Furniture around 1949.

Interiors retailer Holloways of Ludlow has opened its second Holloways of Ludlow HOME store: at the original Ludlow site that first opened its doors as a family architectural salvage business in 1985.

Grosvenor Wilton, which has been making wilton carpets since 1790, has been bought by Brockway Carpets.

Axminster Carpets is committed to maintaining production in Devon and has returned to profit for the first time in more than a decade.

Harrison Spinks has taken another step towards creating ‘the ultimate natural bed’ by introducing a new herd of Angora goats on its 300-acre farm in Yorkshire.

Debenhams is to spend £350m over the next three years turning the chain into a ‘destination’ for ‘social shopping’ centred around mobile phones and social media.

Bedroom furniture supplier Kindred Living has named its southern area sales manager.

The CIFF (Guangzhou) exhibition enjoyed a double-digit increase in visitor numbers, to almost 200,000.

Sainsbury’s is to roll out another 10 Mini Habitat stores within its supermarkets by next March.

Recofloor, the UK’s vinyl flooring take-back scheme, celebrated the environmental commitment of its recycling champions at its sixth annual awards at the Kia Oval cricket ground. Flooring companies, contractors and distributors received trophies and certificates in 10 major award categories plus Gold and Silver groupings from guest host former England cricket captain David Gower. These companies collected a record-breaking 523tonnes through the scheme in 2016 – equivalent to 3.2million cricket balls.
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Upholstery and beds retailer Loaf is to open two more outlets after enjoying a double-digit sales rise.

The British Furniture Confederation says upholstery sold in the UK is ‘the safest in the world’ and regulations are already in place regarding the use of DecaBDE.

The warm weather deterred home shoppers at John Lewis last week, while outdoor furniture sales leapt.

Flooring group Victoria has told shareholders that underlying pre-tax profits for the year ended 1 April will be ‘comfortably ahead of current consensus market expectations.’

The Malaysian International Furniture Fair saw overseas visitors number climb to more than 5,600 at the 8-11 March event.

Salone del Mobile saw a 10% rise in visitor numbers last week, compared with 2015 when Euroluce and Workplace last took place.

John Lewis’s Edinburgh store is to have a new furniture department later in the summer as part of a £24m refurbishment.

Cormar Carpets has reinforced its management team with a new finance director succeeding Robert Barker.

While there were plenty of update classics and reissues at Rho, Mariani’s Planet chair wasn’t one of them.

French designer Ora Ito revealed his first design for Citco: the marble Venus chaise longue.

Cattelan Italia’s Roll table set a standard for customisation and a oddity for legs.

Natuzzi introduced more than 20 pieces under its Natuzzi Italia brand.

The Swiss company wb form made its Milan premiere at Palazzo Litta, updating Max Bill’s Dreirundtisch.

Diesel Living and Iris Ceramica expanded their collection of industrially inspired floor and wall tiles, with seven new designs.

The 100th anniversary of the Dutch De Stijl movement is being celebrated at the Masterly – The Dutch in Milano exhibition at Palazzo Francesco Turati. It features several projects that mark the anniversary of the De Stijl movement and in particular one of its protagonists: Piet Mondrian.

Rug company cc-tapis opened its new showroom in Milan, with an installation of Faye Toogood’s new collection.

Zeitrum added to several ranges while giving the Rail workplace system its Milan debut.

To complement the sofa that shares the same name, Living Divani’s new Dumas armchair, designed by Piero Lissoni, revisits a form that in the memory represents comfort thanks to its generous and livable padded forms.

Desiree introduced the Syon collection of plain or two-colour rugs in viscose and wool with a velvet finish, designed by Setsu and Shinobu Ito.

After the success of the modular sofa Belt, which is available in indoor and outdoor versions, Varaschin Outdoor Therapy launched Circle Belt.

Porro’s Kite armchair, designed by Gamfratesi, is a soft but also generous, feminine product, that can inhabit an office’s waiting area, as well as a period house thanks to its evergreen look and its timeless charm.

Fabric manufacturers The Robert Allen Group and Duralee Fabrics have merged to become The Robert Allen Duralee Group.

Ekornes is to make its January Furniture Show debut next year, returning to the NEC for the first time since 2009.

Now celebrating its third year, the Northern Big Shots clay pigeon shooting event raised more than £17,000 in aid of the furnishing industry’s charity, the Furniture Makers’ Company.

Hypnos and Baker have been named as AIS bed and bedroom cabinet suppliers of the year, respectively.

ScS has unveiled a management shake-up as it looks to add to its team.

The UK upholstery manufacturing sector will continue to show growth for at last the next two years.

Upholstery producer Ultra Furniture has been sold in a pre-pack administration.

Parker Knoll is to officially open its state-of-the-art factory on 9 May.

Carpet Recycling UK’s annual conference and awards is to have a new home: Leicester City FC’s King Power stadium.

Carpetright has seen like for like sales edge up in the past quarter, while cutting back on promotions has helped gross margins.

There have been 30 expressions of interest in British Home Stores after the homewares and clothing chain went into administration, putting almost 11,000 jobs at risk.

Bed company Harrison Spinks is to be included in an official commemorative book marking the Queen’s 90th birthday.

Shire Bed Company has invested a six-figure sum to increase its manufacturing capacity ahead of expanding its product offer.

Furniture sales rose by almost 10% at John Lewis last week.

Last week’s Salone de Mobile in Milan attracted ‘unprecedented’ visitor numbers, with attendees topping 370,000.

Online sales for home products leapt by a third last month.

Andy Harding, House of Fraser chief customer officer has left the department store chain just weeks after overseeing an overhaul of the newly named customer team.

Bedroom cabinet manufacturer One-Call Furniture has strengthened its management team with the appointment of Paul James.

The Furniture Makers Company has again secured sponsorship for its annual football tournament: from Sealy for the fourth consecutive year.

Bensons and Harveys saw strong sales growth in the second half of last year but margins slipped.

Lano will not be Victoria’s first European acquisition after takeover talks ended.

Away from Rho, Tom Dixon and Caesarstone presented The Restaurant, taking over the deconsecrated Rotonda della Besana church and its cloistered garden in the heart of the city.

Gufram looked to hallucinogenic vibes for a limited edition of its iconic Cactus with Paul Smith.

Porro introduced its second collaboration with Gamfratesi (Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi), with the Voyage chair.

Alivar’s Oriental is available as a tall cupboard or sideboard, with customisable drawers with different accessories and internal LED lighting.

Christophe Pillet created Steward for Lema in lacquered 6mm high pressure laminate with a painted metal base.

Away from Rho, Tom Dixon and Caesarstone presented The Restaurant, taking over the deconsecrated Rotonda della Besana church and its cloistered garden in the heart of the city.

At the Triennale Design Museum Rooms. Novel Living Concepts is an exhibition focusing on the state of interior architecture, showcasing the sophisticated, experimental and original work of a select group.

Flexform’s Eden sofabed converts from a leather cocooned sofa into two single beds (the 2010 model had one double mattress).

The Herman sofa, created by Studio Memo, the main attraction of Natuzzi’s collection.

Gufram looked to hallucinogenic vibes for a limited edition of its iconic Cactus with Paul Smith.

Porro introduced its second collaboration with Gamfratesi (Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi), with the Voyage chair.

Alivar’s Oriental is available as a tall cupboard or sideboard, with customisable drawers with different accessories and internal LED lighting.

Christophe Pillet created Steward for Lema in lacquered 6mm high pressure laminate with a painted metal base.

Away from Rho, Tom Dixon and Caesarstone presented The Restaurant, taking over the deconsecrated Rotonda della Besana church and its cloistered garden in the heart of the city.

At the Triennale Design Museum Rooms. Novel Living Concepts is an exhibition focusing on the state of interior architecture, showcasing the sophisticated, experimental and original work of a select group.

Flexform’s Eden sofabed converts from a leather cocooned sofa into two single beds (the 2010 model had one double mattress).

The Herman sofa, created by Studio Memo, the main attraction of Natuzzi’s collection.

Piero Lissoni designed the Piuma seat, one of the most revolutionary and enterprising products for Kartell. It is just 2mm thick and is the first time that a material containing carbon fibre has been injection moulded.

Living Divani looked to a compass for its 2016 influences.

Bonaldo celebrated its 80th anniversary with new sofas, beds, tables and storage units.

Gebrüder Thonet Vienna brought the fruits of its current collaboration with Swedish duo Front and its new and exclusive partnership with Nathan Yong.

Piero Lissoni designed the Piuma seat, one of the most revolutionary and enterprising products for Kartell. It is just 2mm thick and is the first time that a material containing carbon fibre has been injection moulded.

Living Divani looked to a compass for its 2016 influences.

Bonaldo celebrated its 80th anniversary with new sofas, beds, tables and storage units.

Gebrüder Thonet Vienna brought the fruits of its current collaboration with Swedish duo Front and its new and exclusive partnership with Nathan Yong.

Former DFS owner Advent has reduced its stake in the retailer, selling £90m worth of shares.

Danish sofa brand Soren Lund is to make its debut on the UK market, 53 years after its foundation.

Dunelm has attracted more customers, improved conversion rates and increased the average spend.

Steve Rowe, Marks & Spencer chief executive says the chain will focus on being closer to its customers after homeware and clothing sales fell again.

Writer, actor, presenter and comedian Marcus Brigstocke is to host this year’s Bed Show Gala Dinner and Awards ceremony.

Tile and flooring chain Topps Tiles has seen sales growth increase in the past three months.

Buying group SMG has turned to its director of marketing to lead it while it looks to replace its outgoing head of group operations.

Upholstery manufacturer Alexander & James has again been hailed for its exhibition stand designs.

SleepShaper bed manufacturer The Foam Company has set its environmental target to recycle more than 200tonnes of foam waste this year.

Sales at the Malaysian International Furniture Fair topped US$900m for the first time as the show attracted more overseas buyers.

Barker and Stonehouse is to continue its expansion in the south of England.

The board of Argos parent Home Retail Group has recommended to shareholders that they accept the £1.4bn takeover offer from Sainsbury’s.

Bed manufacturer Steinhoff UK Beds has boosted its management and marketing teams ahead of a relaunch of its brands.

Homeware retailers enjoyed a strong April as shoppers concentrated on revamping their homes.

Castelan has won a top award at the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2015.

David and John Alston have agreed to sell upholstery manufacturer Alstons to Thailand Carpet Manufacturing for £24.5m.

Argos has seen a ‘small decline’ in furniture sales in the past year, while Habitat has sales climb.

Interiors Monthly and rooflight company Sunsquare are offering 10 lucky readers the chance to win tickets to this year's Grand Designs Live exhibition.

Carpet group Victoria has said that its full year profits will be higher than City forecasts as the current financial year gets off to a good start.

Boffi and De Padova are looking to exploit the combined scale of the two companies after Boffi completed its takeover.

Flooring recycling scheme Recofloor has been shortlisted for a top award at the National Recycling Awards.

Carpetright says it expects full-year profits to be £3m higher than forecast.

Interiors companies have been rewarded for their innovation and sustainability with Queen’s Awards.

Interiors companies have been rewarded for their export growth with Queen’s Awards for International Trade.

Malaysian furniture show Export Furniture Exhibition generated US$670m worth of orders at last month’s event.

The Sleep Council is to rerun its successful May Be Time For A New Mattress marketing campaign next month.

Jo Pavey, European 10,000m gold medalist will front Silentnight’s Achievements marketing campaign which is due to begin tomorrow.

Among the new products in Slide’s polyurethane collection is the Sled armchair by Karim Rashid.

Although intended as an elegant dining chair, Carl Hanson’s Embrace chair by EOOS also performs as a guest chair, serving as a sculptural addition to hotel lobbies, conference rooms or waiting rooms when not in use.

Arflex’s Bliss is designed for use at home and in the office.

If there is one word that defines Expormim’s new Huma collection by Mario Ruiz, it is detail.

After the concentration of Rho yesterday, today is more spread out with events across the city as part of FuoriSalone.

Patricia Urquiola has designed the Biscuit collection of wooden flooring for Listone Giordano.

Yesterday Henge opened its first monobrand showroom, on Via della Spiga, one of Milan’s most upmarket shopping streets.

Made in Ratio presented the Alpha Chair on via Palermo as part of the Brera Design District.

Alongside its latest sofas and chairs, Calia Italia introduced a range of pastel shades to its upholstery.

The Mélange collection by fashion and homeware designer Sybilla was centrestage for Nani Marquina sets out to reinterpret the kilim, with 20 contradictory rugs that work together, acting as complements.

Living Divani’s Casta is an armchair by LucidiPevere, the design studio of Paolo Lucidi and Luca Pevere.

In Japanese the word Nagi means ‘calm water’, referring to the gentle beauty of the water’s surface when it is undisturbed and serene and is the inspiration for Viccarbe’s chair of the same name by Tomoya Tabuchi.

LED lighting firm Jake Dyson Light has been bought by Dyson.

Upholstery group Sofa Brands International enjoyed higher sales last year but profits were static.

John Lewis has reversed two weeks of falling sales with a double-digit increase.

A bed retailer has been told it cannot show its TV advertisement when children may be watching after including the expression 'ship this bed' several times.

Fabric exhibition MoOD has bought textile event Indigo Brussels Home Edition.

Quick-Step has reaffirmed its long running involvement with cycling by renewed its sponsorship of the Etixx – Quick-Step team.

Home starred for John Lewis in the run-up to Easter, while it suffered a second week of lower sales.

Furniture logistics company Andrew Porter is to invest £200,000 refurbishing its warehouse.

Retail footfall dropped by almost 5% over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Furniture importer Vida Living has strengthened its management with the appointment of a key account manager for its UK operation.

The Kitchen Store has become the first kitchen retailer in Sussex to be awarded a top installation standard.

Retailers in the Midlands and North of England will pay more than £1bn in extra business rates because of the revaluation postponement.

Despite being the place that we recharge our batteries of a night, the bedroom is the dirtiest room of the house with more than a third (34%) of people saying that it is the room in their home where they suffer the worst allergic reactions, followed by the lounge (33%), the kitchen (18%) and the bathroom (6%).

Interiors trade exhibition May Design Series is to be revamped, 'bridging the gap between the commercial and the design worlds'.

Department store chain Selfridges achieved record profits in the past year as sales jumped by 10.4% to £1.2bn.

Furniture logistics specialist Andrew Porter has secured a new contract to deliver warehousing, route planning and retail deliveries to Chelsom Furniture.

The work of five upcoming British furniture, fabric, textiles and glass designers is to be highlighted by interior design firm Urban Living Interiors during the London Design Festival.

The launch of the John Lewis summer sale delivered record furniture sales for the chain.

Overall shop prices reported deflation for the thirteenth consecutive month in May, remaining unchanged at 1.4% from April. 

British department store group John Lewis has opened its first store airport at the new 2.5 billion pound Terminal 2 in London’s Heathrow airport, as The Queen's Terminal officially opened its door earlier this morning.

Jan Mentens has left his role as director of the Brussels Furniture Fair after less than a year in the job to run Natuzzi's western European operations, including the UK.

Furniture and out door furniture sales climbed at John Lewis last week.

Care and protection company Castelan Group has recruited Ian Brown, Guardsman national sales manager as head of business development for furniture retail.

With iSalone now less than a week away, we countdown to the world's largest interiors event by previewing what you can expect.

Out of the Dark, the charity that trains and educates young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in furniture production, is to return to Interiors UK with a major design area at the show.

Retail prices declined again in November – for the seventh consecutive month as retailers continued pre-Christmas promotions.

The NBF's code of conduct will drive out 'cowboy' bed companies passing off old mattresses as new, according to Ebrahim Patel, Vogue Beds Group md.

UK floorings chain Carpetright says this year's profits will be "significantly below" previous hopes and says its chief executive is leaving the company after 17 months.

The company said the UK market was "softer" and its business in the Netherlands had also suffered.

The importance of a good night's sleep continues to grow with the latest research suggesting it could replenish brain cells. 

Terry Duddy, chief executive of Argos and Homebase parent Home Retail Group, is to leave the group next year after more than a decade in charge. Duddy has told fellow directors that he intends to step down before next years AGM in July 2014.

Strong furniture and flooring sales drove higher than expected retail sales growth last month. Furniture and flooring was the best performing category during the month, according to the British Retail Consortium-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. Home accessories and textiles for the house also rebounded.

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Exhibitions take centre stage in June’s issue of Interiors Monthly, with the exhibition guide containing information on must-see shows, an exhibition diary, reviews of Fuorisalone and Buying Groups’ National Flooring Show and a preview of the Manchester Furniture Show. The upholstery feature looks at trendsetters and celebrations; the rug feature reports on innovation and a growing offer; the flooring protection feature looks and the latest innovations; the latest developments in the floor tile market are explored and the role of buying groups is examined. Plus the latest industry news, comment and new products. 

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Online pre-registration has opened for The Bed Show as Gyles Brandreth returns to host the awards dinner again.

Carpet manufacturer Whitestone Group has bought Thomas Witter, adding to its portfolio of brands which already includes Hugh MacKay, Gaskell MacKay, Carpet Line Direct, and Whitestone Weavers.

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfield is to transform Cassina's Milan showroom during ISalone, with an exhibition of his first photography of furniture and furniture.

Flooring tools company Roberts has revamped its online presence with a revamped website. Robertsuk.co.uk now features detailed technical information and close-up photography of its products.

High street retailers enjoyed the best sales growth for more than two years in February, but it is likely to be at the expense of profits.

Department store chain Debenhams saw its anticipated profits increased wiped out by late January's snowy weather.

Business confidence has now strengthened to the highest level since the second quarter of 2011, the ICAEW/Grant Thornton Business Confidence Monitor (BCM) report has suggested.

Mortgage customers able to offer a deposit of 25% of a home's value have the widest choice of home loans, research has suggested.The data, from financial information service Moneyfacts, showed that there were 831 mortgage products on the UK market at this level.

Bed company Hypnos has been awarded The Furniture Maker's Manufacturing Guild Mark, only available to the top 50 furniture manufacturers in the UK.

The first week of the John Lewis winter sale produced another double-digit sales increase, despite disappointing sales of homewares.

Furniture123 says it would be better off as part of a larger company and hopes to tie-up a deal soon.

Arora brothers cash in just seven years after buying discounter B&M Bargains.

Consumers restrict spending in hope of pre-Christmas reductions.

The upholstery chain is set to swell its UK manufacturing capacity.

Kingstown Furniture has promoted four of its senior managers to the board.

Britain's biggest department store chain John Lewis posted stellar sales growth last week for its key household goods business.

The employee-owned retailer said its sales jumped 32.4 percent year-on-year to 64.5 million pounds in the week to April 28, also boosted by robust TV sales related to the digital switch-over in London.

Homewares sales increased 25 percent, benefiting from a strong performance from big-ticket items -- beds and bedroom furniture, floor coverings and upholstery. John Lewis also owns upmarket supermarket chain Waitrose.

North-east retailer doubles after buying failed rival.

Home was John Lewis's best sector in the run up to the New Year as it grabbed market share from rivals.

Upholstery chain CSL enjoyed a pre-Christmas sales boost.

Clothing and interiors chain Next concentrated on maintaining margin in the run up to Christmas but saw 'disappointing' store sales.

The credit ratings of potential customers is holding back sales growth at DFS, the chain has revealed. Two-thirds of the 85 store chain’s sales are on credit and Ian Filby, DFS chief executive says consumers are looking to trade up.

Cavalio and Polyflor parent James Halstead enjoyed record profits and sales in the past year. Operating profits rose 6.9% to £38.3m in the year to 30 June as sales climbed 14.8% to £213.9m.

Clive Race, former Race for Furniture md died on 29 July after a 12 year battle with prostate cancer. He was 89.