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	Halfords - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Halfords Group plc (LSE: HFD) is a leading retailer of car parts, car enhancement, cycles and travel solutions in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
		Halfords traces its origins to a store founded in Birmingham in 1892 by Frederick Rushbrooke as a wholesale ironmongery.
		This consisted of the Halfords name in white upon a blue background, with a white and red flat head screw design on the 'o' of the name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Halfords (399 words)

	Halfords
		Halfords is planning to expand its chain of 420 stores in the UK and Ireland with 15 to 20 new sites a year.
		Halfords is to accelerate plans to add 35 mezzanine floors into its car parts stores over the next year, due to concerns about a possible planning clampdown.
		Halfords, the chain of 387 car parts and bicycle stores, is to proceed with plans to raise up to £350m in a flotation in June.
	www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /halfords.htm (351 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Halfords (HFD.L: Quote, Profile, Research) said profit before tax and exceptional items for the 26 weeks to September 29 was 43.5 million pounds as revenue rose 9.3 percent to 369.2 million pounds with like-for-like sales up 6.5 percent in the period.
		Halfords, whose 420-strong chain sells one in three of bicycles sold in Britain, said it had seen strong sales in all its key categories.
		Shares in Halfords, which have underperformed the UK general retailers index by 11 percent over the last 12 months, closed at 340 pence on Wednesday, valuing the group at about 758 million pounds.
	today.reuters.co.uk /news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=stocksNews&storyid=2006-11-23T074944Z_01_NOA327284_RTRUKOC_0_RETAIL-HALFORDS.xml&src=rss (192 words)

	Halfords Group plc - About Halfords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Halfords has 420 stores across the UK and Republic of Ireland, which makes it one of the largest non-food retailers in the country.
		Halfords' strategy is to maintain and leverage its core strengths and develop new opportunities for growth.
		Halfords business is made up of four key product categories: car maintenance, car enhancement, cycling & travel solutions, overseen & managed by category teams.
	www.halfordscompany.com /hal/ah (85 words)

	RTE Business - Halfords gears up for flotation
		British car accessories retailer Halfords said today it was planning a summer flotation valuing the business at £847m.
		Halfords said it would use the expected £282m proceeds of the offer to repay its debts.
		Halfords increased turnover by 10% to £578.6m in the last year and operating profits before goodwill and one-off costs by 56% to £79.2m.
	www.rte.ie /business/2004/0519/halfords.html (156 words)

	Halfords chimp ad back on TV
		Despite promises from Halfords that they would not broadcast their controversial TV advert again that featured performing chimps, it was recently back on the air.
		However a re-edited version of the commercial was shown in the North West region between 20-30 August and Halfords have told CAPS that they may continue broadcasting it until their new TV campaign is launched at Christmas.
		Contact Halfords and ask them why they have gone back on their word and that you want them to not show the advert again.
	www.captiveanimals.org /news/2003/halfords3.htm (272 words)

	Halfords
		Halfords’ full year performance justified our concerns about gross margin which has fallen 2.6 percentage points year on year, with the second half much worse than the first.
		Halfords performed much better in the second half of the year in sales terms but at the cost of some damage to margins.
		Halfords growth rate, although positive, has fallen for the second half year in succession.
	www.investmentideas.co.uk /research/halfords (270 words)

	News and Events - Halfords Extends its use of Manhattan Associates' Supply Chain Execution Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Halfords is an example of a customer where we have helped optimise their current operations, where we are now core to their supply chain systems infrastructure, and where we hope to work with them in further optimising their extended supply chain."
		Halfords is the UK's leading retailer of car parts and accessories, and bikes and accessories.
		Halfords has 402 retail outlets consisting of 329 Superstores, 61 High Street stores and 12 Motorway stores and employs a staff of 9800.
	www.manh.com /news/news_releases_20021009_halfords.html (689 words)

	Back Room: Halfords...good or bad?
		Halfords is fine for bits and bobs, this weekend i bought some wheel trims, some injector cleaner, a new bulb and some spray paint for my new car.
		The Halfords I went to did the Manual at £13.99, though I have to admit, the cheapest in my area for these is around £12.99, unless you go to Trago Mills, (I expect you've heard of this as well) where they can be had for about £10.99 if they've got what you want.
		Halfords put me through to (what I think was) a call centre who explained that my car would need to be examined before any work could begin (or even get a quote), my car is just over three years old and has always been serviced by Fiat.
	www.honestjohn.co.uk /forum/post/index.htm?t=18270 (4360 words)

	Halfords Cycles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Halfords offers the very latest bikes, in car audio and entertainment as well as less associated areas such as car cleaning, child seats, outdoor leisure and equipment, motorcycle accessories and workshop equipment.
		Halfords range boasts more than 11,000 different product lines from car parts to bikes, alloy wheels to roof boxes, child travel seats to the latest in car entertainment.
		Halfords actively involved in events ranging from the British Touring Car Championships to Halfords Bikehut Race Teams, Car show such as Max Power live and Ripspeed Donny, Child Seat Fitting Roadshows and Halfords are also providing support to the British Heart Foundation for the London to Brighton bike ride.
	www.shopdirect-toys.co.uk /Halfords/Halfords.htm (457 words)

	The Herald
		HALFORDS yesterday reported another robust first-half sales performance, and said second-half sales were already being powered along by soaring demand for child car and booster seats.
		It is thought Halfords benefited from new rules making child car and booster seats compulsory for all children up to 12 years.
		Halfords is only a small player in the £70m car-seat market that is dominated by the likes of Mothercare and Argos.
	www.theherald.co.uk /71497.shtml (387 words)

	Case Studies - Halfords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		With over 400 stores, Halfords is the leading car parts, cycles and accesories retailer in the UK.
		Having originally started working with CACI on a project basis, CACI produced definitions of Halfords' retail catchment areas which they used to look at the relationship between sales and demographics.
		Among the many applications for which Halfords is using the system, one of the most significant is in helping them to identify gaps for new out-of-town outlets, given the general saturation of out-of-town locations.
	www.caci.co.uk /page_content/cs-halfords.htm (194 words)

	SPSS - Customers
		Halfords is the leading retailer of car parts, cycles, and accessories in the U.K. Challenge
		Halfords began with a database containing historic sales figures and site-profile data.
		Halfords senior management used the Clementine model to better understand underlying reasons for differences in store performance.
	www.spss.com /success/template_view.cfm?Story_ID=6 (348 words)

	Sales and profits increase at Halfords : Bike Biz
		Halfords' preliminary figures for the financial year ended 31st March 2002 were released today, mixed in with group figures for current Halfords owner Boots Company PLC.
		Halfords turnover at year-end on 31st March 2002 was £528.7m, an uplift of 4 percent.
		"Halfords is a strong business with good growth prospects and the scale to stand alone as a public company," said a statement from Boots Co PLC.
	www.bikebiz.co.uk /newsitem.php?id=Sales-and-profits-increase-at-Halfords&ss=1 (184 words)

	Halfords
		Halfords are not bad on things like Drive shafts, catalytic converters and brake callipers either.
		Halfords has discounts on other car parts that you would find hard to compete with.
		Halfords recon to guarantee all their parts for one year.
	www.carparts-direct.co.uk /Halfords.cfm (409 words)

	Halfords Cool Box
		There are two sizes available, the 28 litre and the 18 litre and each comes with a 12v cigarette lighter adaptor, which will keep your food at the right temperature for at least 8 hours.
		Halfords are offering both models at a reduced price until September 2000, with the 28 litre model at £99.99 and the 18 litre model at £69.99.
		At the moment, the cool box is only available through the stores, but this may well change soon as the website programmers race to get the Halfords product range added to their fast growing site.
	www.anglersnet.co.uk /reviews/halfords1.htm (474 words)

	Halfords fast - tracks for growth with CIBER Novasoft - LogisticsIT.com
		Halfordsâ existing systems were not well equipped to handle the current business, which had grown fast over 10 years, and urgently required a major investment.
		Halfords had suffered from a general lack of investment in IT in the latter years before the disposal by then parent company, The Boots Company.
		In addition, Halfordsâ existing HR system contained limited personnel data and was based on a number of home-grown processes, none of which were integrated..
	www.logisticsit.com /absolutenm/templates/article-supplychain.aspx?articleid=1948&zoneid=5 (1658 words)

	Halfords \| CIBER Novasoft UK \| www.ciber-novasoft.com/uk
		Halfords was acquired by CVC Venture Capital Partners from The Boots Company in August 2002.
		Halfords’ existing systems were not well equipped to handle the current business, which had grown rapidly over 10 years and urgently required a major investment.
		Halfords began implementing SAP in their HR department, then moved onto finance, followed by category management and store replenishment, and concluded with distribution centre replenishment.
	www.ciber-novasoft.com /uk/ciber/casestudies/halfords.cfm (930 words)

	Bike injury boy wins compensation from Halfords - MTBrider.com
		Halfords has paid £12,500 to a boy who had his spleen removed after he JRAed into a tree when the brakes on his Apollo bike failed.
		Halfords, which sold and serviced Pearce's Apollo Guru bike, has now agreed to pay him £12,500 in compensation.
		As for the story, if halfords didn't do the service correctly then it is their bad.
	www.mtbrider.com /mtbr/showthread.php?t=8548 (2548 words)

	9.3 per cent sales uplift for Halfords : Bike Biz
		Boosted by the new child car seat law, Halfords reported that like-for-like sales were up by 6.5 per cent.
		Halfords is to start rolling out standalone Bikehut stores later this year.
		This is a relaunch of the standalone concept: Halfords was planning to roll out the concept in 2003 following a trial at a standalone Bikehut store in Havant.
	www.bikebiz.co.uk /newsitem.php?id=24489 (191 words)

	RTE Business - Halfords sales up 4% in second quarter
		British car accessories and bicycle retailer Halfords has said its underlying sales rose 4.5% in the 17 weeks to July 28 compared with the same period a year earlier.
		Total and like-for-like sales over the same period rose 9.5% and 6.6% respectively, Halfords said in a statement ahead of its AGM.
		Halfords has a number of outlets in the Republic of Ireland.
	www.rte.ie /business/2006/0802/halfords.html (72 words)

	Halfords Boosts Supply Chain Efficiency with Manhattan Associates` WMS
		The ability of the product to support the anticipated growth of Halfords` business was a fundamental reason for choosing Manhattan Associates and Halfords has been able to continue its store expansion strategy, while crucially maintaining the service it provides to its store network.
		Halfords worked together with Manhattan Associates to ensure that during the go-live phase, there was no significant drop-off in either product throughput or service level.
		Halfords is the UK`s leading retailer of car parts, bikes and accessories.
	www.internetretailer.com /internet/marketing-conference/19110-halfords-boosts-supply-chain-efficiency-manhattan-associates-wms.html (531 words)

	News and Events - Halfords Completes Multi-Site Implementation of Manhattan Associates' Warehouse Management Solution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Halfords currently occupies approximately 200,000 square feet of the Cowley distribution center, which is operated by Unipart Logistics.
		Manhattan Associates' solution, selected for a number of reasons including its ability to be easily integrated with Halfords' SAP ERP system, is fully integrated with radio frequency barcode scanning technology from LXE and provides Halfords with greater control, accurate 'real time' stock data and the flexibility to change operating practices as the business develops.
		Following the acquisition of Halfords from The Boots Company by CVC Capital Partners In September 2002, Halfords was subsequently floated on the London Stock Exchange In June 2004.
	www.manh.com /news/halfords_wms.html (870 words)

	Halfords Careers \| Jobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		What I can tell you without hesitation is that Halfords is different today from last month and, by next month it will be different again and so will your job.
		Halfords is a place to build your career.
		We have a unique brand with an enviable heritage, a commitment to product knowledge, customer service and individual development within a growing business that is open to new ways of working.
	www.halfordscareers.com (299 words)

	Halfords Borrow The Bike
		As part of Halfords’ commitment and passion for cycling, we sponsor and arrange a number of events throughout the year.
		Now in its fifth year, all members of the squad are Halfords staff and are passionate about cycling.
		Halfords has just completed its third year of sponsorship for the London to Brighton cycle ride.
	www.borrowthebike.com /cycle_news.htm (248 words)

	Management Today - Article - Full Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Halfords, which was previously handled by MindShare, moved its account back into OMD after the car parts and bike accessories chain's purchase by the venture capitalist CVC Capital Partners from its parent company, Boots.
		Halfords was originally expected to hold a competitive pitch but cancelled this and handed its business to OMD on the basis of an initial presentation and previous work.
		Boots bought Halfords in 1989 as part of its ill-fated Â£900 million acquisition of the Ward White retail conglomerate.
	www.clickmt.com /public/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=fulldetails&newsuid=0480bf13-1e13-4482-bf79-412bce080609 (273 words)

	FPB reports bully boy Halfords to Government
		Halfords, which announced an operating profit of £46m in September, has written to all its suppliers outlining changes to its trading terms to come into force from the end of January 2006 (see notes to editors).
		One Halfords supplier told the FPB: "Unlike in the food sector where there is a code of practice policing the relationship between suppliers and supermarkets, in our sector suppliers are unprotected and vulnerable.
		Halfords is abusing its total market dominance, as the only retail giant in the sector, and is wringing the money out its suppliers.
	www.fpb.org /YW4JM-Ro5lMmUA.html (835 words)

	Halfords exotic produce
		ABOUT US From the fertile soils of New Zealand’s prime growing regions, Halfords are proud to showcase their stunning exotic produce.
		From a tradition of careful nurturing, Halfords are leaders in exotic produce.
		Continually seeking and growing new cultivars, Halfords are leaders in taste sensations.
	www.halfords.co.nz (141 words)

	Halfords
		Halfords' store portfolio comprised 393 stores across the UK as at 1 October 2004.
		Halfords is in the process of upgrading its out-of-town superstores and is also upgrading its small stores.
		The upgrades to Halfords’ stores have proven successful with Halfords’ existing core customer base, whilst attracting new customers from the growing number of car and cycle enthusiasts, whom the upgrades were particularly designed to attract".
	www.zyra.org.uk /halfords.htm (256 words)

	Halfords turns the screw on suppliers \| This is Money
		HALFORDS is demanding tough new payment terms from suppliers in a move that could spark a major Office of Fair Trading inquiry into its dominance of the sector.
		Halfords, which has almost 400 stores, is 12 times bigger than its nearest rival, leaving suppliers particularly vulnerable to its demands on payment and pricing.
		Halfords denied it was using suppliers to pay for expansion.
	thisismoney.co.uk /news/article.html?in_article_id=405654&in_page_id=2 (426 words)

	Halfords - Investor Relations Home page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Halfords' strong position in the fast growing in-car technology sector has continued to drive sales in Car Enhancement.
		Halfords expects to report pre-tax profits for the year to 31 March 2006 at around £77million.
		Halfords' own brands include Ripspeed, for car enhancement, and Bikehut, for cycles and cycling accessories, including the Apollo and Carerra brands.
	www.halfordscompany.com /hal/ir/announcements/rns/rnsitem?id=1144303260nRNSF0846B&t=popup (374 words)

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