Dunelm company’s namesake, Bill Adderley, and his wife, Jean, recognized a market need in 1979 and made an investment in a quantity of ready-made curtains, “seconds” curtains and bedding, as well as slippers. Before opening their first high street store in the early 1980s, they started up shop at Leicester Market. Home is where Dunelm tale truly starts. When Bill, Jean, and their family initially set up shop in the market stall, they lived in a house called Dunelm. Dunelm kept expanding after the initial high street outlets were successful. Will Adderley, son of Bill and Jean, was named managing director a few years after the first out-of-town Dunelm Mill store opened in Rotherham in 1994. During his tenure, the…
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