Toys R Us are just putting the finishing touches to a new 2,100 square metre megastore next door to the B&Q store at Spirewalk Park, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The shop, which will also include a Babies R Us department, will open onThursday, 20th October, 2011with the creation of 40 job vacancies. An official opening is also…
B&Q will be opening the former Focus store on the Fairfield Industrial Estate, Louth, Lincolnshire in October 2011. A host of new job vacancies have been created and the former Focus staff have been retrained. Focus closed this summer and B&Q paid £23m for a selection of its stores around the country. More about B&Q…
Good news for staff of 31 of the beleaguered Focus DIY after 31 of its outlets were purchased from administrators, Ernst & Young, with a view to re-opening them as B&Q stores. The deal, which has been struck with B&Q’s owners, The Kingfisher Group, and worth around £23m, comes just a day after Focus DIY…
B&Q was first set up in March 1969 and named after its two founders, Richard Block and David Quayle. Since then, the household DIY chain has grown to its present size whereby it now has 321 stores in the UK, 9 in Ireland and a further 43 in China. It employs some 39,000 people and…
