All Hobbycraft articles
Hobbycraft is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of art and craft products. It offers a range of more than 20,000 products catering for 250 different crafts and hobbies, and has turned its 100-plus superstores into crafting destinations with classes and demonstrations to engage with customers and emphasise its specialist credentials. It was acquired by Bridgepoint back in 2010. The Hobbycraft Club loyalty scheme has more than 3 million members.
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NewsHobbycraft launches new app for customers
Hobbycraft has launched a new mobile app for customers to access thousands of product offerings, exclusive discounts and loyalty rewards.
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NewsHobbycraft delivers ‘robust’ Christmas trading performance
Hobbycraft has posted a “robust” set of Christmas results driven by workshops, a quicker click-and-collect service and social media ‘cleanfluencer’ Mrs Hinch.
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AnalysisDeep dive: The Mega Sale days turning Christmas on its head
The Christmas shopping period – historically heavily weighted towards the first three-and-a-half weeks of December following the traditional end-of-November payday – is now effectively a multi-month affair.
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NewsHobbycraft expands store estate as profits rise
Hobbycraft will open three new stores this year after reporting an uplift in profits.
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NewsHobbycraft sales slump following lockdown store closures
Hobbycraft sales and profits slumped due to coronavirus-related store closures, although trading has improved since April reopening.
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Retail Navigator Analysis
Hobbycraft (Overview)
Hobbycraft is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of art and craft products. It offers a range of products catering for some 250 different crafts and hobbies, turning nearly 110 stores into crafting destinations with classes and demonstrations to engage with customers and emphasise its specialist credentials.
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Retail Navigator AnalysisHobbycraft (SWOT)
In a market traditionally serviced by small specialist shops, Hobbycraft is the UK’s only multiple arts and crafts specialist, with national coverage and an increasingly multichannel approach.
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Retail Navigator AnalysisHobbycraft (Financials)
Hobbycraft delivered record sales, climbing 3.9% to £211.1m in the 52 weeks to 19 February 2023 (FY2022) with like-for-like sales edging up 0.5% on the previous year.
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OpinionCatriona Marshall: ‘We bounced back with talent, knowledge and loyalty in place’
Former Hobbycraft chief executive Catriona Marshall, who now owns specialist retailer Running Bear, on how the coronavirus pandemic meant creating an online business overnight and the adoption of a new business model
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NewsHobbycraft full-year profits jump driven by online sales rise
Hobbycraft recorded an adjusted EBITDA of 21.9% from £12.2m to £14.8m in the full year to February 16.
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NewsRetail Week Awards 2020: The winners
Tesco boss Dave Lewis and Ocado chief executive Tim Steiner were among the winners of the Retail Week Awards 2020 sponsored by Salesforce.
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AnalysisCEO churn: Why are retail bosses booted out so quickly?
The turnover of retail CEOs reached its highest level since 2012 last year. Why are retail’s leaders sent packing so frequently?
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NewsHobbycraft Christmas sales buoyed by eco-conscious shoppers
Hobbycraft has posted a “strong” uplift in festive sales driven by online growth and demand for recyclable products.
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AnalysisHappy Christmas from retail – 12 gifts from retailers to society in 2019
It may have been a tough year for retail, but that didn’t stop the industry from playing its part as a good corporate citizen and helping those in need, from the homeless to refugees. These initiatives are just the tip of the iceberg of retail’s engagement with the wider community.
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NewsHobbycraft full-year profits surge as sales rise
Hobbycraft has posted a strong uplift in profits as the retailer’s sales increased thanks to smaller-format store and online revenue.
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DataRetail league table: Christmas trading 2018
Find out how retailers performed during the critical Christmas 2018 trading period, with our league table comparing sales.
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NewsHobbycraft fashions strong Christmas sales boost
Hobbycraft has recorded an upswing in festive sales across its shops and online spurred by in-store Christmas workshops.
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CartoonBlower’s retail cartoon: Hobbycraft's new chairman
Retail Week cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on Hobbycraft appointing outgoing Tesco UK boss Matt Davies as its new chairman to replace Archie Norman.
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NewsHobbycraft names Tesco UK boss Davies as chairman
Hobbycraft has appointed Tesco’s UK boss Matt Davies as its new chairman and named a new boss as it reshuffles its leadership team.
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NewsRetail Diary: Let's not go bananas, says Morrisons boss
Morrisons’ fruitful endeavours, Catriona Marshall’s call for cyclists to take on the Cheshire Dash and the Retail Week runners clocking up the miles.
