Smyths Toys Superstores, the Irish toy-seller chain, are to open a new branch at the site of the old John Peters Furniture store on Clough Road, Hull, Yorkshire. There will initially be 30 job vacancies on offer but this is likely to be doubled during peak selling seasons when a further 30 seasonal jobs are…
Argos will open its second store in Squires Gate Lane Retail Park, Blackpool, Lancashire on Thursday, 27th October, 2012. The store will occupy the old PC World premises and create 45 permanent job vacancies when the shop opens. In addition to this, the new Argos branch expects to create a further 30 Christmas jobs. The…
Hub Retail, the discount store with branches in Lichfield, Manchester, Stafford and Telford, has gone into administration with there being no realistic expectation of a buyer. Consequently all 57 employees are being made redundant. The business was started by one of the founders of Poundland and only came into being in Autumn 2010. The company’s…
Marks and Spencer are to be the anchor tenant at the new £350m City Sentral Shopping Centre in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. M&S will be opening a 9,200 square metre flagship store which will create hundreds of job vacancies although it may mean that the existing Marks and Spencer store in Upper Market Square closes. When finished,…
The Westgate Department Store in the Middleton Grange Shopping Centre is to close on Wednesday, 30th November with its 21 full and part-time staff now facing redundancy. The store, which is now run by the Anglia Co-operative from Peterborough, currently retails homeware and has an in-store travel agent. Staff were informed of the forthcoming closure…
Wilkinson, the High Street home and garden chain, will be opening a new store in the premises formerly owned by the Co-op on Edith Walk, Malvern, Worcestershire. The shop will create 75 job vacancies for sales assistants, stock co-ordinators, warehouse operatives, security personnel, managers and administrative staff. There will be full-time and part-time jobs available….
Toys ‘R’ Us will be opening a 1,800 square metre store at the St Andrews Shopping Park in Birmingham next month. The exact date for the Grand Opening is Thursday 8th September and the multi-million pound project will see a range of toys, educational aids, baby and infant products, bicycles, and computer games being sold…
Marks and Spencer are to set up a new 5,100 square metre store at the Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre in Sheffield. The new retail outlet will sell clothing, homeware, food, gifts and there will also be a Café Revive. Marks and Spencer expect 140 job vacancies to be created by the new branch. When this store…
Gio Goi will be opening a new store inManchester’s Arndale Centre this Thursday. The company, which specialises in selling streetwear clothing for men and women, already has branches in Glasgow and Aberdeen. Manchester will be its first store in England although a second shop may soon be opening in London. Gio Goi products are stocked in…
Ena Mill in Atherton, near Leigh in Greater Manchester, is benefiting from a £½m refurbishment which is expected to create 100 job vacancies. When finished the 3,000 square metre mill will host over 100 concessions which will include an Alexara, Stockleys Sweets, Bedeck Home and Living, Bean, and I Love Bags 2. This first phase…
