One of the UK’s fastest-growing retailers has opened a new store in Swansea’s busy Quadrant Centre, creating nine new jobs.
Card Factory was only launched in 1997 but already the Wakefield company has over 600 stores nationwide and their newest is in the Quadrant Centre.
James Flower, Area Manager for the specialist retailer of greetings cards, said: “We have been looking for opportunities to extend our trade in Swansea and the Quadrant Centre is an excellent location with great footfall and we wanted to be part of that.
“We expect that the opening will create nine new jobs with at least another seven temporary staff for the Christmas period.
“We will also be retaining our existing and successful Oxford Street store in Swansea so these are new jobs.”
The opening of the 1700 square foot store in the former Early Learning Centre premises means that the Quadrant Centre is again up to 100 per cent occupancy.
The arrival of Card Factory has been welcomed by Quadrant Centre Manager Alan Wallace who said: “We’re delighted to welcome Card Factory here. They are a very successful brand.
“It means that once again all our units are full which shows that the Quadrant continues to be a much sought after venue for major retailers and one which plays an integral part in Swansea’s overall retail offer.
“We’re ideally placed at the heart of the city centre, we’re very accessible with good parking and the renovated bus station connecting to the centre and we’re under cover which makes us pretty much weather-proof as well.”
The new manager of the Card Factory store is Samantha Bray, originally from Worksop, in Nottinghamshire, who moved to Swansea five years ago and has worked for Poundstretcher and Wilkinson.
She said: “I am really looking forward to the challenge. Card Factory is one of the UK’s retail success stories which started from a car boot sale business which aimed to open ten stores in ten years and hugely exceeded that.
It is a great fit with the Quadrant Centre which is a very busy place with a great range of stores which attracts plenty of shoppers.”
