Bunnings No.10 opens in Harlow

Home improvement and garden retailer Bunnings Warehouse officially opened its tenth store in Harlow today (1 November), creating over 25 full and part time jobs.

The new store, which is on the site of the former Homebase on Edinburgh Way is 78,000 square feet and offers customers more than 30,000 leading home improvement and garden products from a wide range of global market-leading brands. Other services include everything from paint mixing to key cutting, a garden centre, timber cutting and in-store D.I.Y. Workshops.

Download the Harlow store layout map here

Bunnings’ team members have already been busy ahead of today’s store opening, helping with projects in the Harlow area. These included building a new memorial garden for children at the Holy Cross Catholic Primary Academy and giving the Harlow Cricket Club entrance a refresh by adding plants, bark chips and solar lights.

Harlow Complex Manager, Joanne Broadhurst, said: “All our team members have worked really hard to get the store ready for opening and have undertaken many hours of training to make sure we have the expertise to help customers with home or garden projects.”

To celebrate the opening, Wayne Bridge, former England footballer is joining a welcome breakfast for team members.

The store will host two weekends of events on 4/5 and 11/12 November, where customers can enjoy a range of family activities including the famous Bunnings Sausage Sizzle, face- painting, balloon modelling and even join Peppa Pig & George for a Story Time session (see in store for details). 

The ten Bunnings stores now open and trading include the following (click on link for full address and details):-

• St.Albans - Griffiths Way
• St.Albans - Hatfield Way
• Hemel Hempstead - London Road
• Milton Keynes - Snowdon Drive
• Folkestone - Park Farm Road
• Broadstairs - Westwood Gateway Retail Park
• Sittingbourne (Kent)
• Basildon Vange (Essex)
• Weston-super-mare (Avon)
• Harlow (Essex) 

Stores being converted and yet to open:-

• Rotherham (South Yorkshire)
• Basingstoke (Hampshire)
• Rochdale (Greater Manchester)
• Chichester (West Sussex)
• Bicester (Oxfordshire)

Check out our Insight DIY map of the UK here, showing all Bunnings locations.

Bunnings, the leading retailer of home improvement and garden products in Australia and New Zealand, acquired Homebase for £340million in February 2016 – and plans to invest a further £500million building a new Bunnings Warehouse business in the UK and Ireland over a five-year plus timeframe.

For more information on Bunnings Warehouse and a full store locator, please visit www.bunnings.co.uk 

Source: Insight DIY Team & Bunnings Press Release

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