Poundland to open new stores in Shrewsbury and Newport
Poundland is to open its new store in the former Wilko unit in Shrewsbury this Saturday and a new store in Newport this December.
The news follows the opening of a new store on the Forge Retail Park in Telford earlier this month.
The popular discount chain says it intends to open or relocate 75 stores over the three months to the end of December - the largest three month growth programme in its history.
The programme covers both its existing pipeline of new stores and the former Wilko stores it has
already opened, or plans to open, as new Poundland stores.
The new Poundland stores will carry the extensive grocery, household and general merchandise ranges customers expect.
They will also feature the very latest Pepco family clothing that has rolled out to 500-plus of Poundland’s existing UK and Ireland stores.
Austin Cooke, Poundland’s managing director said:
“To open 75 stores in the space of a single quarter is nothing short of a super-human effort from
every member of the Poundland team. To each and every one of them I say ‘thank you’.
“But we’re working at this pace because we’re on a mission – ambitious to grow, create jobs and
serve new places by opening shops customers and communities can be proud of.”
