Welcome to our dedicated pressroom.
These pages aim to give journalists information and editorials on Barker & Stonehouse and its products.
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Seat of learning
01 May 2007
Are you sitting comfortably? Then we will begin . . . giving you a new look library!
Long-lasting receipt proves a winner
05 April 2007
MIDDLESBROUGH-based furniture giant Barker and Stonehouse has a thing or two to teach today’s throwaway society – even its receipts last a lifetime!
Retail Environment of the year
08 March 2007
TOP furniture retailer Barker and Stonehouse has been short-listed for a prestigious national award alongside some of the UK’s biggest and best-known names.
Barker & Stonehouse - Latest Look
27 January 2007
This baroque chest of drawers is from Barker & Stonehouse, a family furniture firm - based in the North but delivering nationwide - which is enjoying remarkable success, thanks to its very imaginative stock buying...
Bid for a Bargain
20 December 2006
GOING, going, gone . . . sold to the bidder in the comfort of his own living room!
Furniture retailer Barker & Stonehouse is offering those who can’t face the crush of the Boxing Day sales the chance to bid for a bargain without leaving the turkey sandwiches to curl.
Barker & Stonehouse launch 'Your House TV'
01 October 2006
IF you love keeping up with current interiors trends and themes you can now tune into Barker & Stonehouse’s latest innovation, Your House TV. The company is the first furniture retailer in the UK to produce its own stylish and practical film guides to the latest looks of the season which can be viewed at the company’s website on www.barkerandstonehouse.co.uk
Ball Gowns and Tuxedo’s for Stores’ Glamorous Staff!
20 September 2006
STAFF at Barker & Stonehouse gave a whole new meaning to ‘Sunday Best’ when staff the Middlesbrough and Darlington stores donned tuxedos and ball gowns last weekend to celebrate the start of their autumn season.
Glittering prize for poetry contest winner Jill
JILL Parker never really expected to win when she and fiance Michael Hogg filled in a form at their favourite furniture store. She’d entered but never won a competition before. So she was over the moon when a letter arrived from Barker & Stonehouse to tell her she had come top in their 60th anniversary competition...
Barker & Stonehouse customers prove they are no mugs!
THE Champagne may have been flowing but due to a huge demand the limited edition mugs produced by furniture retailer Barker & Stonehouse as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations ran out at a recent customer evening...
Barker & Stonehouse celebrates its 60th anniversary as Britain’s biggest family owned furniture company
What’s the link between Spitfires and sofas?…the Battle of Britain and bedtime?....D-Day and dining room tables? It’s Barker & Stonehouse...
Fourty Years in the Business for Barker & Stonehouse Pair
28 January 2006
FROM the psychaedelia and monochrome of the 1960s to the minimalism of the 1990s, this pair has seen it all….
Barker & Stonehouse Store Team Notches Up Nearly 150 Years
31 December 2005
WHEN it comes to furniture, there isn’t much this lot doesn’t know….between them they’ve worked for nearly 150 years with leading retailer Barker and Stonehouse.
Barker & Stonehouse Winter Sale
26 December 2005
John Allan’s patience paid off after he waited almost 24 hours at leading furniture retailer Barker and Stonehouse’s Middlesbrough store to bag his dream sofa on Boxing Day.
Barker & Stonehouse Takes A Bite of the Big Apple
25 October 2005
THIS year’s Great North Run was just a training session for MD James Barker and Finance Director Peter Soakell - come November 7, they’ll be lacing up their running shoes for the New York marathon.
Record Numbers as Barker & Stonehouse Opens In Hull
16 October 2005
CONTEMPORARY furniture retailer Barker and Stonehouse welcomed record numbers to its Hull store grand opening this weekend (Oct 15 and 16).
Furniture stores designs on Hull
15 October 2005
Innovative furniture retailer, Barker & Stonehouse, will be opening its seventh northern store in Hull’s prestigious Junction Retail Park this weekend with a diary of events.
Barker & Stonehouse Charity Runners Top £50,000
18 September 2005
ALL-out fundraising efforts for a children’s cancer research unit are becoming a yearly tradition for furniture retailer Barker and Stonehouse.
Are You Hull’s Model Citizen?
09 September 2005
Following the revelations by a Channel 4 TV programme labelling Hull as the worst place to live in the UK, newcomers to the city - leading furniture retailer Barker & Stonehouse - are looking for people of all ages from across the region to become models in a new advertising campaign to show just what potential there is in the area.
Barker & Stonehouse best placed for new Hull store
20 August 2005
THE MD of leading furniture retailer Barker and Stonehouse has hit out at a Channel Four programme claiming Hull is Britain’s worst place to live – and says the city is on the up.
Barker & Stonehouse Leeds the way with major expansion
28 May 2005
Barker and Stonehouse has doubled the size of its Leeds store after just two years to increase its stronghold in West Yorkshire.
Convert to Barker & Stonehouse
19 May 2005
FURNITURE from leading North East retailer Barker and Stonehouse will hit national TV this week (Thursday, May 19) as a showpiece for an ambitious conversion.
Right move for Barker & Stonehouse
01 March 2005
The North’s leading furniture retailer, Barker and Stonehouse, is celebrating a successful first six months for its Gateshead store since relocating last September.
Italian furniture giants Natuzzi join forces with Barker & Stonehouse to bring the best in Italian design to the North
24 November 2004
A NEW phenomenon in furniture retail is coming to the North later this week (Saturday 27th November), when world-renowned furniture manufacturers Natuzzi open a new store in association with Barker & Stonehouse and launch five brand new showcases in its stores.
£5,500 raised for Furniture Trade Benevolent Association
26 October 2004
GOLFERS from the furniture trade got into the swing of things recently when more than 70 players took part in the Furniture Trade Benevolent Association Golf Tournament at Catterick Golf Club in North Yorkshire.
Furniture and finishing touches at Barker & Stonehouse's new store!
20 September 2004
INNOVATIVE furniture retailer Barker & Stonehouse has moved its Metro Retail Park store to new, larger premises just a stone’s throw away.
A French Fantasy at Barker & Stonehouse
13 September 2004
CUSTOMERS stepping into a new display at Barker & Stonehouse’s Newcastle store this weekend will feel they’ve been whisked back to another time awash with Gallic charm.
Margaret Howell showcases new Ercol designs at Barker & Stonehouse
01 September 2004
WORKING in collaboration with top British fashion designer, Margaret Howell, furniture company Ercol, are to re-issue three more iconic designs following the successful release of its ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Stacking’ chairs last year at 100% Design.
Poetry in Motion at Barker & Stonehouse
23 September 2003
INNOVATIVE furniture retailer Barker & Stonehouse is taking inspiration and creativity to another level in celebration of next month's National Poetry Day.
Barker & Stonehouse has a taste of Hollywood
13 September 2003
Design conscious furniture retailer Barker & Stonehouse has teamed up with two Hollywood sensations for its latest advertising campaign.
FLOOR-AL FANCY
19 June 2003
BARKER & Stonehouse, the region’s leading furniture retailer has joined forces with not one, but two, of the UK’s best loved designers to introduce a new line of high quality carpets, rugs and runners.
AND THE WINNER IS… BARKER & STONEHOUSE
21 March 2003
FURNITURE retailer Barker & Stonehouse has triumphed as the country’s favourite independent furniture retailer. It has recently been named the Consumers’ Choice Independent Retailer of the Year at the national Furniture Awards 2003.
IT'S SLEEP - BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT
19 March 2003
CUSTOMERS at Barker & Stonehouse will experience the ultimate in new sleep and relaxation technology this month when space age technology used by NASA comes to the Middlesbrough store in the form of the Tempur® Space Cabin.
THE VERDICT’S IN AND THE WINNER IS …
07 March 2003
LAST night the judges returned their final verdict in The Hanging Jury. The quest to find the North Easts next big thing in the art world reached its climax when Sonny Williams was chosen as the overall winner and was awarded with The Barker & Stonehouse Art Prize 2003.
WAYNE HEMINGWAY LAUNCHES NORTH EAST
27 November 2002
STYLE guru Wayne Hemingway was in the North East recently to launch a new regional talent search called The Hanging Jury that is a cross between Pop Idol and the Turner Prize.
