Bargain retailer B&M has introduced plans to open 14 more shops this summer, with the first one set to open its doorways as early as this week. The cut price excessive road retailer revealed right this moment that the latest store shall be opening in Maesteg, Wales, this Saturday – with Greater Manchester anticipated to see two store openings and an enormous enlargement over the subsequent three months.
The finances procuring chain has set bold targets for store openings over the subsequent few years, together with boosting its variety of present shops from over 700 to round 950, with many set to open this yr. Among the deliberate openings, three are relocations, that means the retailer is shifting from one web site to a different, and one is an enlargement of an present web site.
This contains B&M’s Oldham store, which can relocate from its present location to a former Debenhams web site in Spindles Shopping Centre. The present web site will shut down on June 22, earlier than reopening at the new, bigger web site on June 26, in keeping with stories in the Mirror.
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The three shops on the transfer embrace B&M’s retailers in Bulwell, Nottingham, Oldham in Greater Manchester, and Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. Meanwhile, the outlet in Harpurhey is ready to get a makeover and main enlargement to serve more bargains to prospects. While Arndale buyers will have the ability to entry one other B&M in Manchester City Centre as quickly as subsequent month.
The chain’s Gainsborough store is making a transfer to a former Wilko in Marshalls Yard. The present store will stop operations on July 17, three days earlier than it opens at its new location. In Nottingham, the present store is scheduled to shut on June 7, with the new store opening a number of days later on June 12.
The ultimate store to open shall be the expanded outlet in Manchester, which is ready to welcome prospects on August 24.
Since the begin of the yr, finances retail large B&M has launched 24 new shops nationwide, with the newest opening its doorways on May 31 in Bexleyheath, London.
Full list of B&M shops opening this summer
- Maesteg, Wales – June 8
- Bulwell, Nottingham – June 12 (relocation)
- Kingswood, Bristol – June 14
- Oakham, Rutland – June 22
- Oldham, Greater Manchester – June 26 (relocation)
- Bransholme, Hull – June 28
- Bordon, Hampshire – June 29
- Bloxwich, Walsall – July 12
- Bradley Stoke, South Gloucestershire – July 12
- Gainsborough, Lincolnshire – July 20 (relocation)
- Cannock, Staffordshire – July 23
- Arndale, Manchester – July 24
- Victoria Chambers, Derby – July 26
- Harpurhey, Manchester – August 24 (enlargement)
Back in March, B&M shared plans to inaugurate a further 45 new B&M shops inside the subsequent two years, constructing on 47 store openings from the earlier yr. The retailer’s enlargement gained appreciable momentum final yr following the acquisition of as much as 51 websites beforehand occupied by Wilko, when it entered administration.
According to B&M’s monetary stories, these newly acquired places are buying and selling “ahead of expectations”.