"We will be creating a home away from home for the British athletes in the Olympics village in Rio", Chief Executive Ian Filby told Reuters.
DFS was founded in 1969 by billionaire Graham Kirkham, a miner's son from Yorkshire.
The sofa retailer was bought in 2010 by private equity firm Advent International, now its majority shareholder.
DFS now holds a 25 percent share in Britain's 3-billion-pound upholstered furniture market. The company operates 105 retail stores in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands.
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In the year to Aug. 1, the group posted pretax profit of 10.7 million pounds ($16.4 million) on revenue of 706.1 million pounds.
Up to Wednesday's close, the company's shares had risen about 20 percent from the IPO price of 255 pence, giving it a market value of about 653 million pounds.
($1 = 0.65 pounds)
(Reporting by Aastha Agnihotri in Bengaluru; Writing by Kate Holton in London; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
