[1] In 1957, Chaim Schreiber, a Polish refugee immigrant who made radio cabinets for Dansette and other larger electrical manufacturers, bought the bankrupt furniture business Lubetkin and re-branded it under his own name, Schreiber.
In 1970, Schreiber's turnover overtook that of arch-rival Gomme, helped by the failure of its even bigger competitor Harris Lebus the previous year.
A merger was proposed by Sir Arnold Weinstock of GEC between Schreiber Wood Industries and British Domestic Appliances (BDA), better known as the company behind Hotpoint and Morphy Richards.
[4] This merger took place in August 1974, and by the end of that financial year, the combined group returned a small profit.
The empty shell had been completed in 1974 to designs of Peter Carmichael of Runcorn Development Corporation Architects Department, and the finished factory was completed by him as partner in the architectural firm; Brock Carmichael Associates.
Sainsbury's quietly dropped the Schreiber brand in 2017, and integrated it into the Argos Home range.
The Schreiber brand itself was subsequently dropped and replaced with the Argos Home range in 2017.