Wren Kitchens
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Manufacturer, Retail |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | , England |
Number of locations | 33 |
Key people | Armando Sanchez (MD) |
| Products | Assembled kitchen and bedroom furniture |
Number of employees | 1200 |
| Website | http://www.wrenkitchens.com/ |
Wren Kitchens is a privately owned British designer, manufacturer and retailer of fully assembled kitchen cabinets and bedroom furniture. The company has 32 showrooms across the UK, and its headquarters in Howden, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
History
Wren Kitchens was founded in 2009 and is a sister company of Ebuyer.com which was founded in November 2000. The management team behind Wren has 35 years' experience within the kitchen market in both the UK and USA. The team traded for 10 years in the US, becoming one of the top kitchen manufacturers. The US business was later sold and the team moved back to the UK, where they built a £250 million internet retailing business. Wren Kitchens was established in 2009, offering customers fully assembled kitchen units as opposed to the traditional flat pack. Wren later launched a bedroom range in July 2012.
Production plant
Wren manufactures their kitchens and newly introduced bedroom furniture, to the highest standards and have invested £20m in its own production plant in Scunthorpe,[1] North Lincolnshire, where it created 300 jobs.[2] A growing demand in 2013 has led Wren to invest an additional £5 million into the production plant and its machinery. This will be creating a further 100 jobs within the Scunthorpe area.[3]
Showrooms
Wren products are sold exclusively through its own retail outlets, a growing network of out-of-town showrooms. Between 2009 and 2013, Wren opened showrooms in Aberdeen, Ashton, Basildon, Beckton, Bolton, Bristol, Cardiff, Chester, Darlington, Doncaster, Dundee, Erdington, Glasgow, Hamilton, Hayes, Howden, Huddersfield, Hull, Ipswich, Lincoln, Liverpool, Norwich, Orpington, Poole, Reading, Rotherham, Scunthorpe, Sheffield, Southampton, Staples Corner, Stevenage, Stirling and Thurrock. Up to 20 further showrooms are planned to be in operation by the end of 2013.[3]
Delivery and fitting
Deliveries to customers are organised so that all items – assembled cabinets, worktops, accessories and appliances – are delivered at the same time, by Wren’s own fleet[4] direct from the factory.
Wren offers a free home measure service and each installation is carried out by local teams of professional fitters. The company offers up to four years interest free credit provided by Hitachi Finance
Related companies
Wren Kitchens is a subsidiary of Ebuyer.com, one of the UK’s largest independent online retailer of computer and electrical goods.
Consumer confidence
In 2011, Wren launched a bid to protect consumer confidence in UK companies in the kitchen and bedroom sector following the demise of the HomeForm Group.[5] The company offered to honour quotes given by Moben Kitchens and Sharps Bedrooms to ensure anyone who had paid up to a 50% deposit would not be left out of pocket.[6] In an article in The Times[7] the aggressive expansion of Wren Kitchens and Bedrooms was cited as the reason for HomeForm Group, (parent company of Moben Kitchens and Sharps Bedrooms) being put into administration. Wren subsequently offered to protect the deposits of customers affected by the collapse of the group.[8]
References
- ^ "£20m Foxhills Furniture Factory Open Doors".
- ^ "Kitchen Maker Cooks 320 Jobs".
- ^ a b "Wren Kitchens & Bedrooms Expansion".
- ^ "Wren Kitchens Adds 16 Montracons to Fleet".
- ^ "Customers told protect deposits credit cards collapse big stores".
- ^ "Wren Kitchens fly rescue Moben sinks".
- ^ "Aggressive Expansion of Wren Kitchens brings downfall for HomeForm Group".
- ^ "Wren Kitchens helps rival's customers".