John Lewis of Hungerford plc announced its intention to widen its product range to incorporate bedroom furniture for the first time. The range will be launched later this month and will be marketed alongside the core kitchen offering within existing showrooms and from a dedicated showroom at the Company's Wantage head office. As is the case with its kitchen business, bedrooms will be installed in customer's homes by the company's own installation business, the Artisan Installation Service. The bedroom category utilizes the company's core competencies in the areas of design, manufacture and installation. The new bedroom offer is capable of being traded from the existing retail estate without significant further investment.
The recent interim result announcement highlighted sales outturn in the first half year being approximately 11% greater than last year.

The company continues to trade strongly and now expects to report a similar rate of growth for the full year enabling it to generate a small operating profit.