Sainsbury relaunches Habitat

Habitat Retail Ltd trading as Habitat a retailer of household furnishings in the United Kingdom founded in 1964 by Sir Terence Conran,  Home Retail Group including Argos was bought by UK retailer Sainsbury’s for £.14bn. In 1968 Habitat merged with the stationery retailer Ryman to form Ryman Conran and the following year it purchased the business Lupton Morton which mostly shipped furniture to offices and corporations but also made pieces by other designers and in 1970 it acquired the retail chain Straker-Bedser. In 1981, the company’s shares were floated on the London Stock Exchange, and in 1982 it merged with Mothercare Group to form Habitat Mothercare Group plc and bought the furniture retailer Heal’s and the Richard Shops fashion chain in 1983. In 1986 the company merged with British Home Stores also came with a 50 per cent chare of the SavaCentre hypermarket chain, a 50:50 Joint Enterprise with the supermarket chain Sainsbury’s. In 2016 Home Retailer Group agreed to £1.4bn takeovers by Sainsbury’s. Habitat was integrated with Sainsbury’s.

Habitat has launched its Mini Habitat concession within Sainsbury’s stores.