Unicomer Group executive vice president Guillermo Siman says the group was approached by Ansa McAl to purchase Standard Distributors – the major competitor of Unicomer's Courts Furniture stores, but declined to do so because of overlapping store and branch locations.

He was speaking on November 19 during the relaunch of the new Courts Megastore off the Churchill Roosevelt Highway in El Socorro.

Standard Distributors was sold recently to fintech company Term Finance, bringing an end to Standard's 80 years of operations in TT.