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$350.Housing Units toasts a bumper ChristmasHome furnishings and gifts retailer Housing Units today toasted a 9.5 per cent hike in year on year sales for the Christmas trading period, fuelled by demand for items including coffee makers, slippers, Radley handbags, luxury treats and festive decorations.Housing Units, which employs nearly 300 staff at its store in Failsworth, Greater Manchester, said other big sellers during December included spice racks, knife blocks, pan sets and V bed linen.Nursery goods and flooring were Housing Units' best performing departments followed by its Christmas decorations and gifts section, which saw a 15 per cent increase in takings.Director Nick Fox said: "Retailing is a lottery, impacted by weather, economy, mood and trend but we saw a near 10 per cent increase in general sales over the same period of 2011."The key factors seem to be loyalty of customers and a continuous and Herculean effort by staff to get the right merchandise in the store at the right time."Significantly, the best performing departments are two which we expanded and invested in during 2012, so we're particularly pleased that we read the markets correctly."Designer prams were in big demand in the nursery department, while patterned carpets proved popular in flooring.Housing Units, which attracts a million shoppers a year, saw pre tax profits rise from 420,000 to 503,000 in the year to April 1 with sales 2.4 per cent ahead at 18.92m.The family owned business last year invested more than 1m to create more retail space and refurbish existing departments.If you feel we have made an error in a report, or have fallen below our usual high standards, please write in the first instance to: Rob Irvine, editor, Manchester Evening News, Mitchell Henry House, Hollinwood Avenue, Chadderton, Oldham OL9 8EP.Free morning newspaper, The Metro, published every weekday, is also part of our portfolio,delivering more than 200,000 readers in Greater Manchester.Greater Manchester Business Week is the region's number one provider of business news andfeatures, targeting a bespoke business audience with 12,687 copies every Thursday.Housewife caught stealing 905th handbag in 'campaign of