News: Furniture retailer in Rotherham expansion

Plans have been submitted to rearrange the units at a Rotherham retail park so that a Danish retail giant can expand.

Already one of the world's largest retail furniture groups, with more than 3,000 stores in 50 countries, JYSK opened at The Foundry Retail Park in 2014.

New plans show that JYSK wants to move next door to a larger vacant unit on the same retail park.

The application from Rotherham Foundry RP Limited is for a new 3,800 sq ft mezzanine level at Unit 8.

Selling "everything for the home," the brand entered the UK in 2008 and the Rotherham store was the first in South Yorkshire. It sells a range of beds, mattresses, duvets, sofas, dining table sets, housewares, home textiles and garden furniture all at affordable prices, thanks to clever and ethical global purchasing power.

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If plans are approved, JYSK would go from a 8,600 sq ft unit to a 13,000 sq ft unit that has been vacant since Carpetright moved out in 2018.

The plans, drawn up by Montagu Evans, confirms: "The purpose of the application is to allow JYSK to relocate from their existing store in the adjacent Unit 7, to enable them to expand their offer at the site.

"The current store at Unit 7 employs around 7-8 full time members of staff. It is anticipated that this will increase to approximately 12 within the new store."

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News: Home Bargains finds another home in Rotherham

The third unit at a new retail development at Parkgate in Rotherham is under offer to Home Bargains.

Details of the first phase of retail development on the site of a former car showroom on Great Eastern Way have recently been approved.


Land owners, Ron Hull, the Rotherham recycling experts, teamed up with Leeds-based developers, Gregory Projects to secure outline approval for a 16,000 sq ft discount food store together with 30,000 sq ft of additional retail and leisure facilities along with 200 car parking spaces.

The latest application seeks to develop approximately two thirds of the site. Aldi is taking the largest unit at 16,544 sq ft and Iceland taking the adjacent 7,000 sq ft unit. The third unit, of 15,000 sq ft is now under offer to Home Bargains.

TJ Morris, the Merseyside company that operates Home Bargains, has grown organically over the last 30 years to become one of the biggest privately owned companies in the UK. Opening approximately 50 stores a year, Home Bargains is bucking current trends in the industry. In 2013, turnover rose to £1.05 billion with profits of £111m.

The business operates on one key principle: to sell branded goods at the lowest prices possible. Carrying a wide range of high street brands – from health and beauty products to household goods, food and toys - it opened its first Rotherham store in 2012, taking on the former Internacionale store in the town centre. The latest store will join 350 outlets across the UK.

Developers anticipate to start on site in Autumn 2014 with completion in Spring 2015. GVA is agent for the scheme.

At the current Foundry Retail Park over the road, Scandinavian home furnishing retailer, JYSK is taking over a 6,000 sq ft unit and has set a date for opening of October 23.

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News: JYSK to open new Rotherham store

Danish retail giant, JYSK, has confirmed that it is opening a new store in Rotherham, selling "everything for the home" and creating new jobs.

Already one of the world's largest retail furniture groups, with more than 2,100 stores in 36 countries, JYSK will open at The Foundry Retail Park in August, a year and a half before Sweden's proposed IKEA opens in Sheffield.

Taking a 5,840 sq ft unit, vacated when Dreams entered administration in 2013, the new store, the first in South Yorkshire, will sell a range of beds, mattresses, duvets, sofas, dining table sets, housewares, home textiles and garden furniture all at affordable prices, thanks to clever and ethical global purchasing power.

Each week a minimum of two new JYSK stores are opened around the world and the brand entered the UK in 2008. The group is growing in popularity here and the Rotherham store will be the eleventh UK outlet. A spokesperson said that Rotherham was identified as being of particular interest given the rate at which the local economy is growing and the retail park's ability to serve approximately 110,000 households.

Steve Stenhouse, country manager for JYSK, said: "Our stores have always had a following with great value for money shoppers, who are looking to add style to their home and enjoy a quality bargain – perfect for Rotherham."

Buying products in bulk and passing the savings on to customers, JYSK has seen rapid growth and now enjoys a turnover of 2.5 billion Euros. The first store was opened in 1979, in Denmark's second largest city of Aarhus by Lars Larsen, who still owns the company today. In 2011 Larsen was ranked as the 304th richest person in the world, in the American business magazine; Forbes, which calculated his assets to $ 3.6 billion.

When the Rotherham store opens, celebrations will include a free Danish breakfast at the store from 9am, alongside a host of opening weekend offers, with savings of up to 50% off.

The specialist joint venture partnership of Brockton Capital and Pradera bought The Foundry Retail Park for around £22.1m in 2012. Formerly known as the Great Eastern Retail Park at Parkgate, it is home to the likes of DFS, CSL and The Range.

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