{"id":2639,"date":"2019-08-05T06:59:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessmole.com\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2023-11-22T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T07:28:09","slug":"wren-kitchens-invests-1m-to-open-store-in-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessmole.com\/wren-kitchens-invests-1m-to-open-store-in-sunderland\/","title":{"rendered":"WREN KITCHENS INVESTS \u00a31M TO OPEN STORE IN SUNDERLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wren Kitchens has invested over \u00a31 million in transforming its state-of-the-art kitchen showroom at Trimdon Street retail park in Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s number one kitchen retailer has created 25 new jobs in the local area including managers, designers, surveyors and advisors to ensure a first-class service at the new 15,000 sq. ft showroom.<\/p>\n<p>The new showroom opened to the <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">public on Friday,<\/span> 9<sup>th<\/sup> <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">August at 9am<\/span> and an hour later the ribbon was officially cut by legendry former Sunderland FC goalkeeper Jim Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p>The newly divided B&amp;Q building now encompasses the UK\u2019s largest range of kitchens with more than 40 individual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offodisplay.com\/custom-acrylic-box\/\">kitchen displays<\/a> including traditional, country, industrial and ultra-modern styles with over 10 million possible combinations to create a completely unique space.<\/p>\n<p>The showroom also has the UK\u2019s largest range of storage solutions including magic corners, spice racks, wine racks, larder units, pantries, cooks\u2019 tables and integrated pet beds.<br \/>\n<strong>Wren Kitchens General Showroom Manager, Marc Winter,<\/strong> is preparing to take the reins at the brand-new showroom in Sunderland. He said: <em>\u201cIt\u2019s taken three months to completely transform the building to Wren\u2019s famously high standards and the substantial amount we\u2019ve invested demonstrates our commitment to the local area.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our friendly team is looking forward to welcoming the community to the official <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">launch on Friday,<\/span> where they\u2019ll be treated with celebratory nibbles and drinks whilst being inspired with our amazing array of kitchen displays and ideas.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><strong>The Mayor of Sunderland, Councillor David Snowdon said<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI am delighted to have been invited to the official opening of this exciting new retail development in our city.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As Mayor, it is important to provide civic support to the business community, who play such a vital role in our economic future.\u00a0This investment by Wren Kitchens is great news bringing new jobs and more shoppers into the local area, and I hope the new showroom is a huge success.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An all-new concept, Wren\u2019s interior design studio, can be pre-booked at the showroom by local interior designers. It has a large range of samples, design books, and inspirational mood boards to assist in the design of a dream kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Wren offers the latest technology to help bring kitchen designs to life, and the interactive <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">3D<\/span> virtual reality headsets will be available at the showroom to try, as well as the latest smart kitchen technology such as Alexa connected home kitchen lighting and appliances.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the 81<sup>st<\/sup> showroom opened by Wren Kitchens since launching 10 years ago, with recent openings in Exeter and Tamworth. Wren manufactures more than 2,000 kitchens a week at three production facilities in North Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>The opening hours for the new Sunderland Wren Kitchens showroom will be <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">Monday<\/span> to Fridays <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">9am<\/span> to <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">8pm,<\/span> Saturdays <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">9am<\/span> to <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">6pm<\/span> and Sundays <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">10:30am<\/span> to <span class=\"__postbox-detected-content __postbox-detected-date\">5pm.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wren Kitchens has invested over \u00a31 million in transforming its state-of-the-art kitchen showroom at Trimdon Street retail park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_masonry":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessmole.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessmole.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessmole.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessmole.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessmole.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessmole.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4935,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessmole.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/4935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessmole.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessmole.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessmole.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessmole.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}