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. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about Hobbycraft and specialist retailers.
Change is underway across the business, at both executional and channel levels, as Hobbycraft looks to a new era following its exit from a CVA, which resulted in a tranche of store closures and job losses.
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