Main UK menswear model, Skopes, has opened its twentieth, and largest, bricks-and-mortar retailer in White Rose Procuring Centre, Leeds.
The brand new location marks each a serious enlargement for the heritage tailoring model and a homecoming to town the place it was initially based in 1948.
Skopes CEO Simon Cope formally opened the shop this weekend along with Married at First Sight star and model ambassador Matt Jameson.
The grand opening of the shop was attended by a whole bunch of individuals together with VIP friends Leeds Rhinos legend and MND campaigner Kevin Sinfield CBE, former Leeds United captain Ross McCormack, and different Leeds United legends Ben Parker, Andy Couzens, Noel Whelan.
The brand new 3,800sq ft flagship retailer has created eight new jobs and gives a full vary of menswear, together with fits, outerwear, shirts, footwear and equipment in a wide range of types, suits, and hues in addition to plus sizing as much as a 62 in chest.
The shop has been a number of years within the making and mixes the model’s manufacturing heritage with a contemporary color scheme to create a light-weight vivid and welcoming surroundings.
The structure eschews typical product classes, as a substitute being organised by clearly outlined, but altering model traits and themes, corresponding to ‘Getting Hitched’ and ‘Prepared for the Races’ and consists of a big becoming space, to accommodate a full marriage ceremony get together.
Like different Skopes shops, the White Rose location may also offer ‘fast turnaround’ alterations for patrons, making certain everybody will get the right match.
Skopes has a wealthy historical past, courting again 76 years to when it was based by Sydney Cope. At this time, the model is led by the third era of the household, CEO Simon Cope, and has continued to increase its attain throughout the UK.
The nationwide chain opened the primary of its subsequent era idea shops in Westfield, London in 2018, since including Meadowhall, Sheffield and the Metro Centre in Newcastle. The White Rose retailer would be the 20th total, with additional shops deliberate for 2025.
Simon expressed his happiness concerning the retailer’s launch: “We’re so proud to have launched our new flagship retailer in Leeds, proper the place all the things started. I’m delighted that so many individuals confirmed as much as help us, it made the opening really feel like an actual celebratory occasion.
“Opening a retailer in our house metropolis has been on the agenda for just a few years and we’ve been ready for the appropriate location to grow to be obtainable. White Rose Centre has provided us the prospect to showcase our full vary of clothes, footwear and equipment and to attach with our native clients in a particular approach. “I’d wish to say an enormous thanks to everybody who attended, for serving to us to launch our greatest retailer with an excellent get together.
Talking concerning the retailer, Mike Barber, head of retail at Skopes, added: “Since we launched our first idea retailer in Westfield London in 2018, we’ve refined and improved the purchasing expertise we provide our clients. We believed then, and we nonetheless imagine now, that the patron deserves higher. Our intention is to go above and past the same old excessive road expertise, each time a buyer walks by means of the door. A truth borne out by our best-in-class Trustpilot ranking.
“The Leeds retailer has been designed with our buyer at its coronary heart. We’ve added loads of casual dwell areas for our groups to talk with clients and actually get to know their persona so we are able to perceive what they want.
“The function of the go well with in males’s lives has modified dramatically because the pandemic and the five-days-a-week suited and booted search for the workplace is just about a factor of the previous, however that doesn’t imply the go well with is lifeless. We’ve we stated from the outset that we didn’t need a boring ‘fits you, sir’ old school retailer. Our clients now need fits for particular events and occasions, which our retailer lay-out displays.”
