Focus was a British do-it-yourself and home improvement retailer, founded in 1987.
By its peak in 2002, it was the second-largest home improvement retailer in the United Kingdom with 178 stores and over 3,000 employees, behind B&Q.[1] However, Focus would be overtaken by Homebase and Wickes in the mid-2000s. The company began running losses every year from 2007. In the year up to 2011, the company had a loss of £25 million.[2]
Focus entered administration on 5 May 2011, with Ernst & Young appointed as administrators. The administrators sold 55 stores to B&Q, Wickes and B&M.[3] The remaining 123 stores were all closed by 22 July 2011. The defunct Focus brand is owned by Walker Modular Limited, who also own the defunct Land of Leather and MFI brands.[4]
^"Focus Wickes to go public". DIY International - The online magazine for the home improvement industry (in German). Retrieved 1 April 2024.
^Ernst & Young. Administrators' Statement of Proposal. 24 June 2011
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underwent a number of changes of ownership. In 1998, the business was sold to FocusDIY, which itself entered administration in 2011, with all its stores closing...
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2000 to 172 in March 2004, including the rebranding of 36 stores of FocusDIY. Focus Group sold Wickes to Travis Perkins in December 2004. The sale was...
Home Retail Group agreed the purchase of 27 leasehold properties from FocusDIY, to be bought for £40 million in cash. The properties were transferred...
deal. In February 2011, Asda announced the purchase of six stores from FocusDIY; five of these were converted into supermarkets later that year. On 16...
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2006. In October 2007, Home Retail Group bought twenty seven stores from FocusDIY, and converted them to the format of Homebase. In June 2011, the group...
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is where the Hartlepool Borough Council depot was based (alongside the FocusDIY store) until it moved to the marina in August 2006. In 1977, the British...
Magnet, Jewson, Halfords (which closed in 2020) and a Plumbase. After FocusDIY went into administration, its store on the Hattersley Centre closed. The...
them now releasing through commercial companies, others continuing with the DIY ethic of self-releasing on CD and the Internet. Since 2000 there has been...
as a photographer and lifestyle coach. He worked for the retail chain FocusDIY at the age of 16 and later at the supermarket Asda. He was a member of...
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small arms ammunition for the British armed forces. The headquarters of FocusDIY, which went into administration in 2011, was in the town. Off-licence...
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