About Us
Argos Homebase Business Solutions
Argos Homebase Business Solutions is the business-to-business division of Home Retail Group, providing purchasing and rewards services for businesses. We have 25 years experience of making it easy for business and public sector organisations to benefit from the choice, value and convenience our consumer brands offer.
Our infrastructure of dedicated administration, operations, servicing and support teams have helped many businesses to design, implement and run bespoke reward programmes to deliver strong results.
Our goal is to provide purchasing and reward programs that are more flexible, efficient and effective. They benefit businesses of every size and sector, and offer unparalleled choice, value and convenience, coupled with greater financial and administrative control.
Home Retail Group
Home Retail Group is the UK's leading home and general merchandise retailer with sales of over £5.5 billion in the year ended 31 March 2006. It sells products under two distinctive and complementary retail brands, Argos and Homebase, which are household names in the UK. Home Retail Group has leading market positions, which provide significant purchasing scale. For example, Home Retail Group is the UK's leading retailer of jewellery, toys, small domestic appliances, furniture, and sports and leisure equipment. It is also the UK's second largest retailer of home improvement goods and garden-related products and third largest retailer of consumer electronics and large domestic appliances. Many products are sold through both the Argos and Homebase businesses.
Argos is a unique retailer recognised for choice, value and convenience. It sells over 17,000 general merchandise products for the home, all of which are set out in its twice yearly 1,700-page catalogue which is at the heart of its proposition. Customers can purchase products through its network of over 650 stores, online and over the phone, with the option of picking up their purchases from a store or having them delivered to their home. 
Argos' Internet site is the second most popular Internet retail site in the UK. Argos serves over 130 million customers per year through its stores and takes 4 million customer orders per year either online or over the phone. On average, 17 million UK households, or around two thirds of the population, have an Argos catalogue at home at any time.
Homebase is the UK's second largest home improvement retailer and is recognised for choice, style and customer service across the wider home enhancement market. It has more than 300 large, out-of-town stores, which sell over 30,000 products, as well as a growing Internet offering.
It also offers its customers the convenience of home delivery for bulky, high value items. Homebase serves over 70 million customers per year through its stores.
