John Lewis have said that they are hoping to move into a new store at the site of the old Booker Cash-and-Carry store on the Deepdale Retail Park, Preston, Lancashire. If plans are approved, the work could begin sometime in the next few months. Around 180 job vacancies are expected to be created at the…
John Lewis is to spend a massive £15m building a new 9,300 square metre department store at the Monks Cross complex on the outskirts of York. The store will create around 300 job vacancies when it opens. The development is being handled by Oakgate who estimate that the new John Lewis store might be ready by…
Waitrose is opening a new supermarket in Jesmond, Newcastleon Wednesday, 2nd November, 2011. The 800 square metre store has created 70 job vacancies for which Waitrose have received over 1,000 applications. Not surprisingly, no further applications are required at the present. The successful candidates will now be opted into the John Lewis Partnership scheme which…
John Lewis is about to submit a planning application to take over the 3,700 square metre former MFI premises on Portfield Way, Chichester, Sussex. If approved, work will start in Spring 2012 to convert the building into a John Lewis ‘At Home’ store which will create 140 job vacancies. The building works are expected to…
Reading Jobs Fair will be held tomorrow, Thursday, 15th April, 2011 at the Penta Hotel on Oxford Road, Reading. The event, which is being sponsored by Jobcentre Plus and Reading CIC, will run between10 am and 5 pm and the following exhibitors will be present (among others): AWE Broad Street Mall John Lewis McDonald’s National…
John Lewis has said that it intends to build 10 small stores around the UK with each being about two-thirds the size of a typical store. Exeter in Devon is scheduled to be first on this list. The Exeter branch will be about 6,000 square metres in size and create around 300 job vacancies when it…
Eastgate Quarters in Leeds has had the approval of Leeds City Councillors for £600m to be spent on its refurbishment. Under this massive scheme, 9 hectares of retail space will be created, providing space for Marks and Spencer and John Lewis to move in. There will also be a civic square, 130 shops and restaurants,…
John Lewis has said that it will soon be commencing work on the construction of an ambitious, multi-million pound, 3,700 square metre ‘At Home’ store just outside Ashford in Kent. The precise location of the store which will create 160 job vacancies, is to be close to Junction 9 of the M20. The building will…
Waitrose is set to take over the troubled Somerfield store at Anchor Springs, Littlehampton, Sussex. The move is programmed to occur in July with the supermarket’s re-opening as a Waitrose store at the beginning of August. About 50 job vacancies will be created as a result of the change over. The existing workforce’s jobs will…
John Lewis At Home is looking to recruit staff to fill around 200 job vacancies at its new Greyhound Retail Park store in Chester, Cheshire, which is scheduled to open at the end of the summer. The positions on offer include slots for caterers, sales assistants, management and specialist sales advisers. John Lewis say that the…
