Merrion Centre expands its fashion offering

Thu 28 May, 2015

Leeds’ Merrion Centre has expanded its fashion offering with the opening of the popular women’s clothing store, Select, creating 10 jobs.

The new lease between Merrion Centre owners Town Centre Securities PLC (TCS) and Select, improves the Merrion Centre’s fashion offering which already includes the popular Peacocks and Shoezone.

The 3,500 sq ft Select store opened at the end of April and is already exceeding trade targets with its catwalk styles at affordable prices being snapped up by the hundreds of thousands of shoppers visiting the Merrion Centre every day.

Helen Green, associate director for TCS explains: “We were delighted to work with Select in finding a store which matches their requirements and are really pleased to be able to offer our customers an improved fashion line up, which will be strengthened once more when the extension to the Morrsions store opens incorporating the children’s Nutmeg clothing range.

“As well as maintaining all of our founding stores it is important for us to continue to develop our portfolio in line with our core demographic shopper. We are keen to continue to offer our customers variety.”

The Merrion Centre store is the 162nd site for Select, and bolsters its Yorkshire presence with nine stores across Sheffield, Dewsbury, Wakefield and Shipley.

Cafer Mahiroglu, managing director at Select comments “Select is on an exciting re-branding journey. Our overall aim is to offer effortless fashion, yet with surprising prices relative to our competitors. The Merrion Centre is the ideal location for our Leeds city centre store, the centre’s high footfall and mixed demographic really works for us. We have already seen a strong sales performance since opening our doors less than a month ago.”

The Morrisons store at the Merrion Centre is currently undergoing a multi-million pound refurbishment and significant expansion. The store will increase in size by circa 10,000 sq ft. Other recent development at the Centre include the opening of My Thai Restaurant on Wade Lane, rapidly expanding Yorkshire business Crawshaws butchers have opened on Arena Way Mall and Caffe Nero opened on Merrion Street.