New Boohoo warehousing operation will create 1,000 jobs and safeguard 500 more

Up to 1,000 jobs will be created at a new warehousing site for Manchester-based online fashion retailer Boohoo, as well as helping to secure around 500 existing jobs.

The group today revealed it has agreed a long-term lease for a new warehouse in Daventry, near Northampton, following an exchange of contracts.

It said this new warehouse is scalable and it expects to invest more than £50m over the coming years to increase capacity, thereby offering Boohoo operational flexibility as it grows.

Up to 1,000 jobs will be created at the site as capacity increases.

Boohoo said the Daventry operation is due to become operational in the second quarter of its financial year.

It will support the group’s expansion, and it will add capacity in addition to its existing warehousing facilities in Burnley, Sheffield and Wellingborough.

It said, in aggregate, these sites will give the group net sales capacity in excess of £4bn.

Last month Boohoo revealed it was expanding its distribution operations in Burnley, where it currently employs around 3,500 staff.

It is planning to renovate older buildings on its current estate to enable further expansion.

And it is working with several local businesses to upgrade some of the older industrial units on Widow Hill Road, where it is based on the Heasandford Industrial Estate.

Paul Corrigan, Boohoo head of logistics, said last month: “Boohoo is a major UK success story, having been founded in 2006 and growing into the business it is today.

“We needed to expand and relocate our global distribution centre, and Burnley was the perfect location for that.”