B&Q, the UK’s main dwelling and backyard enchancment retailer, has at the moment (Friday 13 December) opened the doorways to its brand-new 22,000sq ft retailer at Nice Jap Retail Park, Rotherham. Prospects had been welcomed in by Dinnington Colliery Band who offered a festive efficiency as the shop opened to clients for the primary time.
The brand new retailer is B&Q’s first retail park location since opening its Newark retailer in Could 2023, and follows current small format retailer openings for the DIY retailer in Brighton and Staines this 12 months. The brand new retailer is stocked with over 11,000 important dwelling enchancment merchandise and clients can even entry an enormous vary of twenty-two,500 extra gadgets by way of B&Q’s Click on & Acquire service.
Combining velocity, comfort, and entry to B&Q’s broad supply of companies, the brand new retailer incorporates a devoted TradePoint space, a timber reducing service, B&Q’s well-liked Valspar paint mixing station, WEE recycling, Rug Physician cleansing rent, a showroom space together with the brand new toilet vary, and a backyard centre stocked with outside crops and gardening necessities.
To rejoice the official opening, the Unit Supervisor, B&Q colleagues, and Rotherham locals loved music from the native and famend Dinnington Colliery Band, who kicked off the festivities with a full of life efficiency. First workforce members of Rotherham United F.C. Ladies and Mayor Councillor Sheila Cowen additionally attended the occasion, formally welcoming the shop as a useful addition to the area people and retail panorama.
Nicola Pickering, unit supervisor on the new B&Q Rotherham retailer, stated: “We’re thrilled to open the doorways to our brand-new retailer and welcome the Rotherham group. Whether or not it’s a fast DIY repair, a house enchancment challenge, or provides for commerce professionals, we’re right here to satisfy our clients’ wants all underneath one roof.
“Stocked with many product traces and extra entry to hundreds of ranges accessible by way of our next-day Click on & Acquire service, this retailer offers the area people comfort and selection. We’re proud to be a part of the Rotherham group and look ahead to serving to our clients carry their dwelling enchancment concepts to life.”
The Mayor of Rotherham, Councillor Sheila Cowen added, “Rotherham Council has a imaginative and prescient for a good and affluent financial system that gives possibilities for everybody to get a great job, or begin and develop a enterprise, and plan confidently for the long run. I’m actually happy to have the ability to welcome the brand new B&Q retailer to Rotherham and the 20 jobs it creates. That is optimistic information for the city, and I want the workforce each success of their new enterprise.”
To rejoice the launch of the brand new retailer, final month the workforce from B&Q Rotherham took half in a particular group day on the native charity, Rotherham Hospice, the place they assisted in organising its new charity store forward of the Christmas season. The shop additionally donated a Christmas tree and decorations for the festive season because the hospice proceed to offer the important compassionate, holistic care to people with terminal diseases and their households.
The day was part of B&Q’s Group Days Programme, which sees volunteers from native B&Q shops help the group by bettering a neighborhood charity house, making a optimistic distinction throughout the communities B&Q serves.
B&Q Rotherham opening occasions:
Monday – Saturday: 7am-8pm
Sunday: 10am-4pm.
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