Newport Marks and Spencer store to create 62 jobs

1:10pm Friday 4th January 2013 in News

Newport Marks and Spencer store to create 62 jobs Newport Marks and Spencer store to create 62 jobs

A TOTAL of 62 new jobs will be brought to the area when the new Marks and Spencer store opens at Newport Retail Park later this month.

More than a third of the new jobs will come through the Marks and Spencer work programme ‘Marks & Start’.

Working with charities Remploy and Gingerbread, Marks & Start will provide 26 jobs at the Newport store for those who have previously been out of work for a long period of time.

The Argus previously reported how the old store at Commercial Street, Newport, will close on January 16 with the new store opening in Spytty the following day.

The new staff will join staff moving from the old store with 152 workers being based at the new store in total.

The new 39,000 sq ft store will include a 120-seat café and will bring womenswear fashion range Per Una to the area for the first time.

The store will also have a modern food hall and free car parking.

Store manager, Pradeep Patel, said: “We are starting to see howthe store is going to look and it is fantastic.

“We know our customers will benefit greatly from the more spacious store and all that it has to offer.”

Comments(9)

areyour4real says...
1:38pm Fri 4 Jan 13

I spoke to the staff in town and they can't wait to move there.

62 new jobs is great news!

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ScoobyD00 says...
1:43pm Fri 4 Jan 13

Fantastic news about the jobs but another nail in the coffin for Newport City center.

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portforever says...
3:09pm Fri 4 Jan 13

seems to me its newport retail park that people want ,and not the city center any more. people are voting with there hard earned cash and the shops know it. hard to see the city high street going on much longer, and more jobs its a win win except for the few hanging on in there shops in the high st, get out before its too late . what happens to the high st is hard to know but it cant stay as it is,cant see debenhams really coming they be better of following us to the retail park if you ask me,bhs be coming over with us soon as well more good news and more jobs,,,

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mer8071 says...
4:35pm Fri 4 Jan 13

portforever wrote:
seems to me its newport retail park that people want ,and not the city center any more. people are voting with there hard earned cash and the shops know it. hard to see the city high street going on much longer, and more jobs its a win win except for the few hanging on in there shops in the high st, get out before its too late . what happens to the high st is hard to know but it cant stay as it is,cant see debenhams really coming they be better of following us to the retail park if you ask me,bhs be coming over with us soon as well more good news and more jobs,,,
Retail parks are fine for those who have cars but not all people want out of town shopping. Even some of the staff who could walk or catch a bus into town now have to drive or catch two busses as well as the customers. Parking is free but will Tesco be happy with the overspill from the retail park flooding into its car park? Most of the shops are not hanging on in town, Primark and Iceland are doing exceptionally well, Boots are always busy & shops do come & go. After shopping at retail parks for as long as we could remember we have started to shop in town on a more frequent basis, this was to see for ourselves if it was as bad as some of the quotes posted on here. We would like to thank those moaners for I was pleasantly surprised & now we prefer to shop in town rather than the bland out of town retail centres. Also the town centre needs our support so why are we always so negative about it, moving shops out of town is a negative not a positive. Obviously everyone to their own but there are more shops in town than @ Spytty Retail Park.

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portforever says...
5:17pm Fri 4 Jan 13

not been to city center for ages have no need to go there . cant imagine why anyone would want to go there, but everyone to there own. cant say i know anyone without a car but there you go.iceland and boots are also at the retail park, wonder how long untill they pull out of the center, fancy boots may stay,not sure about iceland...

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D Taylor says...
12:03am Sat 5 Jan 13

Iceland have only just opened their new shop in Commercial street and it appears to be doing well to me. Anyone who has to rely on buses must find this new shop handy.

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Magor says...
12:41pm Sat 5 Jan 13

It is open till 8 so I will be going in the evening so should be able to park nearby,but it is going to get hard to park at peak times at spytty.

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Slider02 says...
5:53pm Sat 5 Jan 13

umm reality check here - Newport and it`s city centre is run down dirty and clostrophobic as well as univiting at best.

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Rose2497 says...
8:41pm Sat 5 Jan 13

It's great to hear new jobs being created and I look forward to visiting the new store. As for Newport town centre, hopefully the new development will happen and as a result might Newport might be a better place to visit. At present I am put off from going into town due to the number of pigeons, and this makes the centre appear dirty. I am forever dodging them either flying by or walking around me which isn't helped by the number of people feeding them - why aren't these people being issued with fixed penalties for littering?

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