Oswaldtwistle Mills border hops for new business venture

Oswaldtwistle Mills is expanding its retail offer by opening a new home furniture and lifestyle store at The Mill Outlet & Garden Centre in Batley, West Yorkshire.

The 8,500 sq ft store will stock an extensive range of contemporary leather & upholstered sofas with a wide choice or styles and fabric coverings, dining tables and occasional furniture and a large selection of modern and traditional rugs. The store will also include an outdoor living section with feature rattan furniture ranges including, bistro and dining sets, corner groups, loungers and accessories.

There will also be a focus on leading British furniture brands including Sherborne who for over 85 years have been manufacturing reclining chairs and settees to the highest of standards in Clayton, Bradford.

The new store will also be home to an exciting new themed Christmas Shop featuring stylish decorations, lights, trees and gifts opening in September 2016

Boyd Hargreaves, managing director at Oswaldtwistle Mills said “There are a lot of synergies with The Mill Outlet at Batley and our main site at Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, We are similar in size of facility, site turnover, concession mix and customer profile.  We hope to deliver an interesting mix of home, furniture and lifestyle ranges to complement the existing retail offer at Batley that has worked well at Oswaldtwistle."

"We will also be working with The Mill Outlet at Batley on a number of new marketing initiatives to help raise the level of visitor numbers."

Brendan Flood, chairman at The Mill Outlet, Batley, said:  “These are exciting times for the Mill Outlet at Batley. Oswaldtwistle Mills have proved to be successful retail operator who have created a strong following on a regional basis.

"I am very happy they have chosen Batley after reviewing a number of sites to set up their first Furniture, Home & Lifestyle Centre outside of Lancashire and we welcome their introduction.

"Further outlet enhancements will be completed with the opening of our new Garden Centre offer due to be open for business during May.

"We have a number of new and exciting initiatives in the pipeline over the next 12 months.” The new store that will open on Saturday the 7th May is open 7 days a week and will be located in the current Poundstetcher store on the ground floor of the mill.