Homebase stores were purchased by CDS Superstores, B&Q and Wilco in 2024 after Hilco placed the DIY chain on administration, with many having reopened under its banner this year
A major DIY chain has opened three new branches in a major pre-Easter relaunch today, with more to come before the long weekend.
Former Homebase stores are reopening under The Range banner after the chain was placed on administration by former owners Hilco and sold onwards to CDS Superstores – which acquired 48 stores and its website – B&Q, and Wilco in 2024. CDS will reopen three of the former Homebase stores which closed earlier this year, and they will resume trading as The Range in time for the Easter rush for home improvements. They are among around 70 Homebase stores which were rescued when the chain went into administration in November last year.
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Up until now 36 former Homebase stores have reopened under new branding, including three which opened last week. Now, three more are set to reopen on Good Friday – in Sevenoaks, Kent, Bishop’s Stortford, in Hertfordshire and Portlaoise, in County Laoise, Ireland.
Most of the new outlets will be branded as The Range with Gardens Centres by Homebase.
They will be followed by four more former Homebase stores which will open as The Range the following Friday on April 25 in Haverfordwest, Drakehouse Park, Sheffield, Rayleigh Weir and Dublin Nutgrove.
Two others are scheduled for next month – with one set to open in Market Harborough on May 2 and in Clitheroe, Lancashire on May 16.
The full roster of Homebase stores opening as The Range this week can be viewed on the map below:
Here is the full list of former Homebase stores which have already been converted into The Range outlets, and when they reopened this year:
- Pollokshaws, Glasgow – opened January 17
- Christchurch, Bournemouth – opened January 17
- Kings Heath, Birmingham – opened January 17
- Newton Abbot – opened January 24
- Felixstowe – opened January 24
- Blyth – opened January 24
- Stroud – opened January 31
- Putney Road, Leicester – opened January 31
- Blandford Forum – opened January 31
- Penge – opened February 7
- Woking opened February 7
- Leighton Buzzard – opened February 7
- Staines – opened February 14
- Ashbourne – opened February 14
- East Dereham – opened February 14
- Huntingdon opened February 21
- Reigate opened February 21
- Bicester – opened February 21
- Admiral Park, Eastbourne – opened February 28
- Morecambe – opened February 28
- Oxford – opened February 28
- Bodmin – opened March 7
- Loudwater – opened March 7
- Selby – opened March 7
- Craigleith Park, Edinburgh – opened March 21
- Horsham – opened March 21
- Ruislip – opened March 21
- Maidenhead – opened March 28
- Harrogate – opened March 28
- Sligo, ROI – opened April 4
- Drogheda, ROI – opened April 4
- Winchester – opened April 4
- Balloo Park, Bangor, NI – opened April 4
- Sittingbourne – opened April 11
- Frome – opened April 11
- Newmarket – opened April 11