Onehome

Onehome is a retailer that formed in 1943 in Liverpool Town Centre as The World Home of Imports Ltd. TWHOI partnered with Pier 1 Imports and Linens n Things to sell their products in 1995. They closed existing stores and opened flagship at Metrocentre in Gateshead when expansion opened. They even changed their name to Onehome and shifted their focus from a import store to a big box home store. Laura Ashley opened a concession inside a store in Bristol in 2001. Onehome entered administration in 2005 and Linens n Things immediately acquired the company for £70,000,000. Their bedding department’s main stockers, Slientnight, Sealy, and Sleepeezee are forced to add more mattress brands to the menu. LnT filed for bankruptcy in 2008. The onehome chain was sold to Apax Partners for £149,000,000 as LnT’s US operations were closed. An Sharps Bedroom studio opened in the Metrocentre somewhere. It’s somehow sad to lose an part of our lives if LnT’s operations called it quits. OXO shaped the stores in 2010 when Cutterz Brands LLC. was spilt into many brands. OXO acquired JoyKitchen and Kitchen Cutterz, Rubbermaid acquired Storage EZ, Makaina, Ericc’s, Dailion, and Cutterz Storage, and Bauer acquired Pottery Factory and Village Pottery. Today, onehome had 1,628 stores and over 800 brands.