£24m-turnover retail firm opens York outlet

A £24m-turnover flooring retail group has opened up its latest store in York.

The £100,000, 3,000sq ft Flooring Superstore has opened at the Monks Cross Shopping Park – the fifth store to open in the UK in 2018.

Operated by Connection Retail, which has a £24m-turnover and ambitions to reach £35m by 2019, Flooring Superstore started life as a purely online business in 2012. Connection Retail  said it chose to open ‘bricks and mortar’ stores as part of its growth plan.

Established in 2012 as an online business, it now also has ten stores nationwide and plans to open more later in 2018.

Store Manager Mark Clayton said: “We are delighted to have been able to bring Flooring Superstore to York. It’s a unique concept in that we can offer a one-stop-shop for flooring while maintaining online pricing.”

A year ago, Connection Retail opened a similar sized store for its Direct Wood Flooring brand on Layerthorpe, York.

Clayton added: “The success of our Direct Wood Flooring store was key in us choosing York to open a Flooring Superstore in the city.

“People are now much more selective when it comes to choosing flooring and increasingly you will find they will have a much wider range of flooring options in their homes, so for example they may have wooden flooring in the living room, vinyl in their bathroom and carpet in their bedroom.

“And flooring now doesn’t end in the house; that’s why we have 25 different ranges of artificial grass.”