Poundland Jobs

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Brief Introduction to Poundland 

Poundland are a discount store chain operating across the UK and one of the first retail stores to sell all items in there store for £1. The company are also recognised for being among the first to bring this type of retailing to Europe which was first invented in the USA in the 1870’s.

Poundland are currently the largest “single price” discount chain in Europe with revenue of £396 million and a profit of £11.8 million. 

The company claims there Croydon pound store is the busiest in the world with around 30,000 customers walking through their doors each week, which generates over £9 million per year in revenue for the single priced discount chain. 

The History and Founder of Poundland 

Poundland was first founded by Dave Dodd and Stephen Smith in April 1990, they opened there first store in Octagon Centre in Burton upon Trent.  By 1991 Poundland operated six stores and continued to rapidly expand across many cities in the UK. 

The company opened a new 130,000 square feet warehouse to cope with new demand the company was facing and because the old warehouse had exceeded its capacity. The company operate in excess of 150 Poundland stores across the UK with targets of opening at least 30 new stores per year. 

The company invested around £25 million in constructing a new 300,000 square feet distribution centre to improve product distribution across the network of stores. The company envisage building the chain into operating over 400 stores in the UK and operate a list of schemes including recycling old mobiles and supports many charities. Once the new distribution centres was built and running hundreds of new Poundland Jobs were created. 

Did You Know? 

When Dave Dodd and Stephen Smith founded Poundland they only had a starting capital of £50,000 and were finding it difficult to rent a store as many landlords believed there business would destroy other local business by undercutting them. 

Poundland have continued their expansion and are one of the very few retail businesses still doing well in economic downturn, the company even reported increased sales since the start of the recession as more and more consumers become price wary and look for cheaper options. Poundland’s competitors haven’t ignored this report with supermarket chain Asda announcing they were too going to reduce their prices of well known brands that were being offered by Poundland to just a pound most notably Colgate Toothpaste and shower gels. 

The company went through a management buy-out by Advent International in 2002 led by Dave Dodd, this allowed the company to rapidly expand creating new jobs across the United Kingdom. James McCarthy was taken over as the chief executive of Poundland from Dave Dodd, James came from being the chief executive of Sainsburys PLC. 

Did You Know? 

The majority of product sold on the shelves of Poundland comes from China? 

The simplicity of the retail chains pricing has made it a real attractions for consumers who love the “one price” concept, which goes for the company’s catch phrase: “everything’s a pound”. 

The company stock over 10,000 different products each year with around 3000 being stocked at one time in the stores.  

The best selling Poundland Products include: 

Ø  AA Kodak Batteries x 10 Pack 

Ø  Sweets 

Ø  Toys 

Ø  Toiletry Items 

 Did You Know? 

Currently Poundland are supporting the Macmillan Cancer Support charity and have run 2 fundraisers (time of writing) one of which was named “c’mon England” in support of the football World Cup and the other fundraiser which was called “Summer of Love” which was to celebrate the season of summer.  

The retail chain is also a member of Sedex (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange) and has been awarded the fourth spot in Europe’s 500 Award which was for the year of 2010, the company created hundreds of new jobs at their Poundland stores and distribution centre which helped gain this award. Poundland also came 11^th in the Sunday Times Top Track 250.  

Current Poundland Directors (2011) 

Ø  Colin Smith, Chairman 

Ø  Jim McCarthy, Chief Executive 

Ø  Nick Hateley, Finance Director 

Ø  David Coxon, Trading Director 

Ø  Tim McDonnell, Retail Operations Director 

Ø  Craig Bales, Property Director 

Ø  Andy Monk, Distribution Director 

Key Facts on Poundland 

Working life at Poundland 

Withier you are working in store or at their Willenhall headquarters Poundland offer some of the best working environments where staff progression is at the heart of the companies values. A structured training plan is implemented for all new recruits working at Poundland with the first being the induction program where a brief overview of the company is provided and health and safety “best practices” are given to the new staff. 

Did You Know? 

Currently (at the time of writing this article) Poundland employee in excess of 7000 people across the country from their Headquarters in the West Midlands to their 150+ stores across UK as well as in their new 300,000 square foot distribution centre. – That’s a lot of Poundland Jobs!

Search Local Jobs – Basic Guide to Applying For Jobs at Poundland 

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