FHP IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TOTALLY LOCALLY

Retail News

FHP Living are delighted to have partnered up with Totally Locally as part of its parent company’s (FHP) strategy to support new and small businesses.

FHP as a group works with all sizes of retailers, from supermarkets through to small independents and has not only provided a free shop for Totally Locally on Central Avenue, West Bridgford, but also instigated the “Inspiring Retail” competition which saw 49 entrants and 2 winners chosen after a “Dragon’s Den” style of competition at the end of November, with those winners going on to open shops in the city centre.

David Hargreaves who heads the Retail Team at FHP and FHP Living said:

“We are thrilled with the success of the Totally Locally store on Central Avenue over Christmas – it created a real buzz.   Quite a large proportion of our 60 staff live in West Bridgford and the surrounding areas and all thought the store was “brilliant”.

We also as a company purchased 15 Christmas hampers that Karina put together sourcing all the products from the Totally Locally partners, for our key clients over Christmas and this went down particularly well.

What we were particularly pleased to see through the Pop Up Christmas shop was not only the new friendships which were created between some 40+ retailers in the store, but also the new markets which were opened up for those retailers through trade amongst each other.”

The Local Data Company, who track vacancy rates, announced recently that for the first time in 5 years the shop vacancy rate around the country fell, which should continue as a result of a variety of new businesses starting up off the back of the improved availability of finance and an improvement in confidence in cities and suburbs alike.

“There is a real ground swell in the retail sector at the moment led by small independent and local retailers and organisations such as Totally Locally which provide a network and a support system are certainly playing their part, and FHP and FHP Living will continue to support such organisations” said Hargreaves.

 

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