QUESTION How did Axminster become so associated with carpets? What became of the industry? The market town of Axminster, on the River Axe in Devon, is synonymous with the manufacture of luxuriously ...

The royal coat of arms is affixed to a sign on the front of the Axminster Carpets factory, near the train station in this town of 6,000 in southwest England. Beneath the seal are the words “By ...

Manufacture Of Axminster Woollen Carpets...Employees inspect a length of finished carpet at Axminster Carpets Ltd's factory in Axminster, U.K., on Tuesday, July 12, 2011. The price of wool has surged ...

The majority of staff at Axminster Carpets are set to lose their jobs, administrators have said. Administrators Duff and Phelps said about 300 employees out of 400 would be made redundant at company ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Family-run Axminster Carpets, which traces its origins back to the 18th century, called in the administrators ...

Staff at Axminster Carpets set to lose their jobs are being offered support. About three-quarters of the luxury carpet firm's 400 staff in Axminster and Buckfast are to be made redundant, ...

Axminster Carpets has signalled its fortunes were unravelling rapidly after it filed an administration notice, leaving 400 jobs hanging by the proverbial thread. The carpet maker, based in the ...