MADE

MADE (made.com) is a UK online furniture and homeware retailer selling design-led sofas, dining and living room furniture, garden furniture, lighting, soft furnishings and home accessories. The original Made.com was founded in 2010 as a direct-to-consumer design furniture disruptor, IPO'd on the London Stock Exchange in June 2021 at a £775 million valuation, then entered administration on 9 November 2022 amid falling consumer spending, rising import costs and supply chain pressures. British retailer Next plc acquired the Made.com brand name, domain and intellectual property for £3.4 million in the administration sale (no staff or factory relationships were retained). Next relaunched the Made.com website and app in August 2023 on its 'Next Total Platform,' the same infrastructure used for other Next-operated brands including Cath Kidston, Joules, Reiss and Victoria's Secret UK. The Soho showroom that defined the original brand did not reopen, and product design is now run through Next's home buying team rather than the original Made.com design partnerships.