Pets retailer creates Cheshire jobs with new superstore opening

National pets retailer, Jollyes, is opening its first Chester store next Friday (August 16), creating 12 jobs.

The superstore, at 2B Chester Retail Park, Old Seals Way, is situated in a unit vacated by Poundland earlier this year.

The highlight promises to be the opening ceremony featuring retired Border Force detector dog, Sully, which will bite through a string of sausages, alongside Lord Mayor Cllr Razia Daniels.

Over the next 12 months, all Jollyes’ stores will be raising money for NFRSA (National Federation of Retired Service Dogs) with collections matched by Jollyes up to £20,000 that will help NFRSA support retired service animals and their owners.

Experienced Jollyes store manager, Stephen Williams who has been promoted to the role after 11 years working for Jollyes in Runcorn, will head the new outlet.

Joining the Chester team are deputy manager, Charlie Davis, who has been promoted from his role as supervisor at Jollyes’ Flint store, and new supervisor, Holly Williams.

The new store will provide ‘pet parents’ in Chester access to the chain’s raw food frozen ‘shop-in-shop’ and a community pet clinic which will open later this year.

Stephen Williams said: “Over the next week we’ll be working hard to get the store ready to welcome our special guests and customers for the first time.

“My whole team is looking forward to delivering the service, expertise – and above all prices – that Jollyes is becoming famous for right across the country.”

Jollyes has grown its store estate by 50% in three years.

The Chester store will be its 105th in the UK, joining other stores in and around Cheshire in Congleton, Ellesmere Port, Widnes, Runcorn and Warrington.

Jollyes’ main national distribution centre is also in Middlewich, Cheshire.