Frozen food retailer plans to create 2,500 new jobs
Iceland snaps up 51 Woolworths stores
Frozen food grocer Iceland has bought 51 former Woolworths stores – and plans to create 2,500 new jobs.
According to the BBC, the announcement comes three days after the final 200 Woolworths stores closed their doors for the last time.
"We are confident we can help to support the local community in these towns who have lost a major High Street retailer in Woolworths," said Iceland.
Iceland and investment group Bagur made an offer to buy all of Woolworths' 815 stores last August, but Woolies rejected the bid.
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Around three quarters of the 51 Woolies stores Iceland has bought are in the south of England, including 10 in London.
Iceland currently has 682 outlets.
The full list of stores are:
Alton, Barnsley, Belper, Bethnal Green, Bexhill On Sea, Bicester, Billericay, Blandford Forum, Bodmin, Boreham Wood, Bow, Braintree, Broadstairs, Devizes, Exmouth, Fraserburgh, Frome, Greenford, Hackney, Hailsham, Harold Hill, Haverhill, Herne Bay, Hexham, Highgate, Honiton, Kilburn High Road, Leyton, Malvern, Matlock, Mill Hill, Minehead, Monmouth, Morpeth, Morriston, Newtownards, Palmers Green, Pinner (Rayner's Lane), Palmers Green, Plumstead, Pontypool, Poplar, Portslade, Ringwood, St Neots, Stoke Newington, Strood, Sudbury, Swaffham, Wakefield, Wallington, Whitstable
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good news
this is good for the areas that stores have been bought, and at least iceland just sell food !! not like supermarkets!
ICELAND BODMIN
Just what the town centre needs welcome from a fellow retailer .
NEW ICELAND STORES
I have a friend in Braintree where you are opening a new store. She does not have access to e-mail. Could you please give a phone number she could ring to register for employment there?
Thank you.
Iceland store
I am very sorry to see Woolworth's go in my home town of Wallington, I was a regular customer for many years the closure of many stores and with the loss of many jobs all across the country, Woolworth was a household name for so long going right back to the early 1900's, I think the store at Croydon was the oldest one left in the world. But our old Woolies in Wallington is now going to open as an Iceland soon I have heard, I have brought food from Iceland before and found that they are good value for money and mostly the quality is good, I think that Iceland will do a good trade in Wallington and we will have more choice besides Sainsbury's, Lidl, and Tesco's where the people of Wallington choose to shop.
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