Homebase Accrington

[Bee]

Okay, was the Homebase Accrington a Texas Homecare?.

[cashman]

no idea but assume you have ossy homecare?

[Bee]

Originally Posted by cashman

no idea but assume you have ossy homecare?

No cashy I DO NOT have "ossy homecare".

[lancsdave]

Nope it's always been in Accrington. Texas is in the USA

[Bee]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

Nope it's always been in Accrington. Texas is in the USA

Texas Homecare
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Texas Homecare

Former type Home Retail
Successor Homebase
Founded 1972
Defunct 1999
Headquarters Holborn, London,
United Kingdom
Texas Homecare was a chain of DIY stores in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, that operated from 1972 until 1999.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Advertising
3 See also
4 External links
[edit]History

Texas Homecare was established in 1972 by Manny, Sydney and Gerald Fogel, who had previously founded the high street specialist paint and wallpaper chain Home Charm. Taking their lead from America, they revolutionised the UK DIY market, with the introduction of the 'DIY shed' style outlet. Mervyn Fogel, Co-founder and Managing Director for over 25 years had a vision of turning the small family business into a DIY retail empire. Texas specialised in higher volume, lower margin DIY products. The company had been adversely affected by a recession and depressed housing market.
With its acquisition, Homebase hoped to hold around 10% of the total DIY market in the UK. In May 1995 it was announced that only 26 Texas stores were to close, with limited redundancies. Sainsbury's found that full conversion to the Homebase format was an investment worth making and allowed £50 million for the task.
These stores were rebranded and redesigned to the Homebase format, the first to be converted being in Longwell Green in Bristol in February 1996. A few other stores were sold off to other retailers; including the Merry Hill store in the West Midlands, which closed in 1995 and was split between PC World and Currys.
The last 60 Texas stores were converted to Homebase in 1999 and the Texas name vanished from high streets, shopping malls and retail parks.
[edit]Advertising

In its early years Texas was famous for its TV advertising sign-off: 'Texas - THE BIG ONE!' In later years Texas used a fictional character called 'Texas Tom' in its advertising. During the early 1990s, this campaign was altered slightly to refer to Tom's place: "Only at Tom's place!"
[edit]See also

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by Bee

Texas Homecare
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Texas Homecare

Former type Home Retail
Successor Homebase
Founded 1972
Defunct 1999
Headquarters Holborn, London,
United Kingdom
Texas Homecare was a chain of DIY stores in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, that operated from 1972 until 1999.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Advertising
3 See also
4 External links
[edit]History

Texas Homecare was established in 1972 by Manny, Sydney and Gerald Fogel, who had previously founded the high street specialist paint and wallpaper chain Home Charm. Taking their lead from America, they revolutionised the UK DIY market, with the introduction of the 'DIY shed' style outlet. Mervyn Fogel, Co-founder and Managing Director for over 25 years had a vision of turning the small family business into a DIY retail empire. Texas specialised in higher volume, lower margin DIY products. The company had been adversely affected by a recession and depressed housing market.
With its acquisition, Homebase hoped to hold around 10% of the total DIY market in the UK. In May 1995 it was announced that only 26 Texas stores were to close, with limited redundancies. Sainsbury's found that full conversion to the Homebase format was an investment worth making and allowed £50 million for the task.
These stores were rebranded and redesigned to the Homebase format, the first to be converted being in Longwell Green in Bristol in February 1996. A few other stores were sold off to other retailers; including the Merry Hill store in the West Midlands, which closed in 1995 and was split between PC World and Currys.
The last 60 Texas stores were converted to Homebase in 1999 and the Texas name vanished from high streets, shopping malls and retail parks.
[edit]Advertising

In its early years Texas was famous for its TV advertising sign-off: 'Texas - THE BIG ONE!' In later years Texas used a fictional character called 'Texas Tom' in its advertising. During the early 1990s, this campaign was altered slightly to refer to Tom's place: "Only at Tom's place!"
[edit]See also

Why ask the stupid question when you know the stupid answer ?

[Bee]

Because where does it mention it was in Accy?.

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by Bee

Because where does it mention it was in Accy?.

It doesn't, you did

[K.S.H]

It was a Texas store before it became homebase

[flashy]

Originally Posted by K.S.H

It was a Texas store before it became homebase

oh don't you start, we have enough with one gullable pratt on here without you becoming one too

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by K.S.H

It was a Texas store before it became homebase

Oh great, just what we need, Bee's sidekick

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Bee

No cashy I DO NOT have "ossy homecare".

well yeh need summat,if yeh have to resort to shouting, may be n idea to ask yer doc about counseling then.

[flashy]

Maybe bee has wax in his ears

[steeljack]

Has anyone noticed since the onset of 'Bee' the number of posts (and the exit of Blazey and Cyfr. sp?) to the site may have increased a bit, "not saying owt", But ..... maybe the site needed a bit of a boost in the "internet/web" search links , nobody works for 'nowt' and I am no way in the loop about how the site is financed (at one time I posted a thread questioning about ads appearing from US sites appearing at the top of the different threads , this seems to have stopped),
Hey , if 'Bee" works to up the visits to the site (and increase revenue for the sites owner by increased posts and allows us all to enjoy Accy Web ) I'm all for Him/Her/It to continue to get us posting.

thinks to myself ... should a poll be set up to decide if "Bee" is really Blazey or Cyfr (sp?) both have moved on/up from Accy and probably have new ISPs. Who would have been most likely to have attended Mt. Carmel ?
my vote, Bee is Blazey ..... who else without a fascination for shops would post a thread about meeting an Accy Webber at 6 am in the ASDA

comments please

[Bee]

Texas/Homebase opened in 1989!;
http://www.wilkinsonwilliams.co.uk/i...on_hombase.pdf