"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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HLAH wrote:
Isn't MFI in financial straights? So perhaps also their trade
division? And the first sign of this is often failing to refund what
is owed or pay their bills on time, etc.

No the Howden's division is making shedloads, the MFI division which was
losing hand over fist

Creative accounting within the group?

has just been sold to a venture capital
consortium for £1
http://www.kamcity.com/namnews/asp/n...p?newsid=29602

Ah - another British Leyland deal. Hope the MFI pension fund does rather
better.

As to Howden's we got a trade account with them but the quote for a base
model kitchen was jaw droppingly high, even after the "discount". That
and the fact that the "design" they had done was completely different
to what we had specified meant we said stuff that.

Funnily enough we then got a call from them saying they were doing a
promotion and they could do it cheaper. But as it was still more than
Wickes in their sale for a better style we have ordered from them.

Rather unimpressed with Howden's.

Funnily, I was quite impressed with the one MFI kitchen I've installed and
it seemed very good value.

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But I didn't go to MFI I went to Howden's, same group different division.

I didn't bother to go to MFI because of people I know were having long
delivery times quoted and weren't impressed with the buying experience.
Howden's said they could deliver next day.

As it was my sister had just bought a Wickes Kitchen and was pleased with
the service. As we liked the look of one of the Wickes range, once they were
on "sale" again, we bought it there with a delivery time of 3 weeks.

Interestingly MFI/Howden's are allegedly shifting production to Eastern
Europe, I wonder how that will affect things.


H