Released on: August 26, 2008, 4:20 pm

Press Release Author: Louise Barlow

Industry: Retail

Press Release Summary: ONE of the country's largest and 'favourite' soft furnishings
retailers is to open a new store in Huddersfield, creating around 100 new jobs for
the area.

Press Release Body: It will also be the company's 90th store to be opened since the
Adderley family founded the business in 1979.

Dunelm Mill which has stores all over England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
now employs more than 6,000 staff and offers a massive range of items for the home
while providing customers with department store quality at 'Simply Value for Money'
prices.

The new 33,000 square foot Huddersfield store is due to open in September in the
former Tradex Cash & Carry building, Beck Road, Ringway Industrial Estate,
Huddersfield.

Construction work is now beginning, which when finished will see a modern, air
conditioned store on two floors, with around 20,000 different products across a
broad spectrum of categories including bedding, curtains, gifts, fabrics, linen,
cushions, bathroom and kitchen accessories, quilts, pillows, rugs and lighting.

The company also specialises in fabrics for curtains and upholstery plus offers a
Custom Made curtains, blinds and accessories service all of which are produced in
the Dunelm's own Manufacturing Centre in Leicester.

The store will be open seven days a week, with plenty of free parking and a coffee
shop.

Recently Dunelm Mill was voted the UK's third favourite retailer in a poll of more
than 6,000 shoppers. Shoppers were asked to rate the stores in terms of range,
prices, convenience, quality, service, ambience, facilities and layout.

Bill and Jean Adderley founded the Dunelm Mill in 1979 as a market stall business in
Leicester selling ready-made curtains. The first store opened in 1984 and over the
years the business has developed into a successful nationwide chain. The Leicester
based company was listed on the London Stock Exchange in October 2006.

As well as the stores the company also operates an on-line store at
www.dunelm-mill.com where more than 11,000 products can be viewed.

Chief Executive Will Adderley said: "We are really looking forward to opening this
store in Huddersfield and bringing our 'Simply Value for Money' prices to the area".


Web Site: http://www.dunelm-mill.com

Contact Details: address:
Dunelm Direct
Green Street
Radcliffe
Manchester
United Kingdom
M26 3ED
0845 1 65 65 65

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