Iceland wants more Food Warehouse stores across North Wales – with plans already in for one shop

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Iceland wants to open more Food Warehouse stores in North Wales – with plans already submitted for one supermarket.

The Deeside based brand currently has the Food Warehouse brand in Wrexham, Mold and Flint – part of a 144 strong UK portfolio.

But they want to increase this number.

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It has seen plans submitted for a new store at the Menai Retail Park in Bangor, where they would replace Carpetright.

This would create 20 to 25 jobs.

Ryan Parsonage, from Iceland Foods, said: “The business has 144 Food Warehouse stores trading across the United Kingdom including 13 in Wales.

“We are keen to increase our representation in North Wales expanding on our existing Food Warehouse locations in Wrexham, Mold and Flint.

“We are continuing to roll out our Food Warehouse trading format on a UK basis to sit alongside our existing network of High Street stores.

“The business has been actively searching for potential premises in North Wales and the premises at Menai Retail Park, subject to these proposals, meets our requirements.

“Iceland and Food Warehouse is a Welsh company based out of our head office in Deeside Flintshire. We are committed to investment in Wales, growing our business in the country and creating jobs for Welsh people.

“We, as a business, are keen to expand our Food Warehouse brand and make Menai Retail Park our 14th Welsh Food Warehouse store.

“We will be making a significant capital investment in this project in excess of a million pounds creating in the region of 20-25 new jobs across a range of roles. The majority, if not all of these roles, will be filled by local residents as is the case with our other stores across the country.”

The plans have been submitted with Gwynedd council.