LONDON-The locally based supermarket chain Sainsbury has agreed to lease about 134,000 square feet at the former Ericsson buildings in Ansty Business Park for its general merchandise and clothing Store Support Centre. About 530 employees will move from the existing center at Walsgrave Triangle.
The company has said its goal is to grow its non-food business to $1.3 billion, and this move will help achieve that vision, said managing director Roger Burnley in a statement. “The general merchandise and clothing teams have expanded considerably,” he said. The new building is bigger, brighter and more modern, he says.
A company spokeswoman tells GlobeSt.com that DHL is moving the clothing distribution to a Bedford depot. “This will help us to support the significant increase in clothing volumes that we have forecast for the future,” she says.
The government’s Homes and Communities Agency owns the business park, which Stockholm-based Ericsson vacated after the technology firm had to move out its research and development staff in 2009. Margaret Allen, executive director for the agency, said the Ansty site is becoming one the best located business pars in the country, sided with a recently completed Manufacturing Technology Centre.
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