Argos > Argos Christmas
For Argos Christmas is an important time of year, with their biggest sales of the year as people all around the UK rush to buy Christmas presents for friends and family.
The Argos Christmas gift guide gives ideas for Xmas presents and gifts. You could buy anything from an Argos Christmas tree to gift vouchers.
Argos also runs many popular adverts on television around Christmas, to try and attract as many customers as possible into their stores so they can get a sizeble chunk of the Xmas money spent on Christmas gifts/presents.
Customers find browsing the Argos Christmas catalogue a great way to start their Xmas shopping, as it gives great ideas on what to buy even the most difficult relative!
Argos was founded in 1973. It is a UK catalogue retailer selling products for the home and general merchandise. Argos has over 680 shops in the UK and over 30 in the Republic of Ireland. Sales (at the time of writing) are worth well over £4 billion.
Not only does Argos have a large number of shops on the high street, but it is one of the UK's biggest Internet retailers. Each year it takes around 4 million orders over the Internet and by phone. Around 2/3 of the UK population have an Argos catalogue in their home.
Argos UK is part of the Home Retail Group Plc, which owns other well known brands such as Homebase. Home Retail Group was demerged from GUS in 2006.
