Tag: retail

Buy Leeds campaign

Leeds unites to buy local this Christmas

People across Leeds are being urged to buy from local independent businesses and makers for their Christmas shopping this year, as part of a new citizen-led campaign called #BuyLeeds – and the coordinators are especially asking south Leeds businesses to get involved. Independent businesses have been hit hard by the

Asda Middleton store to be the retailer’s first sustainability trial store

Shoppers in Middleton are to be at the forefront of Yorkshire supermarket Asda’s research into new packaging technology, as the local store becomes the retailer’s national test-bed for innovation to reduce plastic. From May, the store will become the first Asda store in the UK where shoppers can fill up

St. Luke’s CARES calls for new retail course recruits

St. Luke’s CARES charity shop are looking to recruit more participants to join their new free accredited course in January 2017. The new three (3) month YEP (Your Enterprise Project) is a certified Level One qualification in Skills for Further Learning and Employment Level One. Combined with in house training

Hat-trick of retailers create 40 jobs at White Rose

  Land Securities, owner of White Rose Shopping Centre, has confirmed three deals have been secured, creating an additional 40 job opportunities within the scheme. Simply Be, Jacamo and Quiz have opened in the centre for the first time and Bank has doubled the size of its store, with a

New owners plan new lease of life for Clarence Dock

Plans to revitalise a Hunslet waterside development have been unveiled by developers. As reported by South Leeds Life earlier this month, a new strategy for the ‘Brigadoon’ that is Clarence Dock in Hunslet is aiming to turn the area into a home for independent traders, restaurants and digital businesses Property