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Since opening its first store in 1909, Woolworths has become a familiar feature on the UK’s high streets. Over four million people shop in our stores each week. There are today 801 Mainchain stores located in small towns and city suburbs, targeted at meeting basic everyday shopping requirements, as well as larger stores located on prime shopping streets in major regional shopping centres. The product offer covers Toys, Children’s Clothing, Events, Confectionery, Home and Entertainment. In Woolworths’ out-of-town stores, a wider selection of Toys, Outdoor goods, kids’ bedroom ranges and Entertainment products can be found. With its rich and well-loved heritage, Woolworths continues to refresh its store formats and the shopping environment to meet its customers’ requirements. |
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50,763 |
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Through its website and catalogue, The Big Red Book, Woolworths offers customers a multichannel shopping solution across a broad range of products. Orders can be placed at home or in-store with delivery to either the customer’s home or for collection in-store. |
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The quality of Woolworths’ colleagues, in-store, in our distribution centres and at Head Office is vital to the Group’s success. Employing around 30,000 people, we place an emphasis on high standards of customer care and service, so our colleagues’ development and training is a priority. We encourage and enable our people to develop their knowledge, skills and career options across all facets of our business. We offer high quality business education and practical training in specific skills. |
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Woolworths offers a leadership programme for graduates (Woolworths Group Leadership Programme). WGLP is a development framework for people with potential to become future business leaders. It develops people within chosen functional areas, including Business Development, Marketing, Commercial, Retail, Supply Chain and Distribution, Finance, Human Resources or IT.
For more information on a career at Woolworths, go to www.woolworthscareers.co.uk. |
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Ladybird – Dating back to the 1950s, Ladybird-branded Children’s clothing is now synonymous with Woolworths, which secured exclusive rights to the brand in 1984. Ladybird clothes are popular, modern and continue to appeal to today’s parents and their children. |
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Chad Valley – the Chad Valley brand first appeared on toys in around 1920 and was acquired by Woolworths in 1988. Today it comprises an extensive range of high quality, value-for-money toys and games suitable for all children. |
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Worthit! – A range of entry price items, under consistent Worthit! livery, launched in the early part of 2007. The range currently includes over 1,000 products spread across every category in store and includes seasonal items. The Worthit! brand presents a very clear statement about the competitiveness of Woolworths’ prices. |
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Licences
Through our focus on ‘Kids and Celebrations’, Woolworths strives to be the natural partner of choice for leading Children’s brands from around the world. By developing bespoke strategies with licensors, Woolworths has created exclusive branded promotions and products which offer a clear point of difference to customers. |
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Before products can reach our stores, they must be sourced, purchased, transported and stored. As a general merchandise retailer, this is a complex business involving buying and logistics teams located at Head Office and at Woolworths Group Asia Limited, our Hong Kong based sourcing facility. Separate buying teams are in place for each product category and include category planners, buyers, merchandisers, marketeers and supply chain specialists. Our strategy is to reduce costs by buying directly from suppliers or from low cost manufacturers in Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In addition, this means that new product innovation can be delivered more quickly through closer cooperation with manufacturers. Woolworths’ distribution network principally consists of three core distribution centres through which merchandise is distributed to the individual stores.
1. Castleton Warehouse
2. Swindon Warehouse
3. Bedford Warehouse |
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Since opening its first store in 1909 Woolworths has become a familiar feature on the UK’s high streets. Over 4 million people shop in our stores each week. |
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Woolworths offers its customers value-for-money on an extended range of products. |
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The product offer includes Toys, Children’s Clothing, Events, Confectionery, Home and Entertainment. |
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Ladybird is one of the best selling childrenswear brands in the UK. Focusing on clothing for children age 1-10 years, the brand offers fun, fashionable clothing at affordable prices. |
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