Manchester Arndale
Manchester Arndale is the UK’s biggest inner-city shopping centre with 240 retailers and associated brands offering an extensive fashion mix, which is current and affordable high-street fashion. It is the number one shopping experience in the city centre, with over a mile of shops all under one roof.
The centre offers a free style advisory service which can be booked by contacting Debs Hatfield at styleadvisor@manchesterarndale.com. Debs is on hand to help with any style or fashion dilemma customers may have.
The centre boasts the largest Next department store in Europe (150,000sq ft) and around 18 mobile phone stores, including an Apple store. Manchester Arndale has over 60 fashion retailers, 16 health and beauty boutiques and 30 eateries. The Foodcourt is one of the largest in the UK with an array of mouth-watering outlets as well as numerous cafes, restaurants and take-away store on the mall.
The centre operates a queueless Santa’s Grotto at Christmas time and is now taking bookings online from now at www.manchesterarndale/grotto. In addition, there is a Gift Wrap kiosk and Manchester Arndale’s angels are on hand to help those with present-buying dilemmas once the Grotto is in place from 24th November.
The shopping centre attracts around 39 million customers every year which makes it one of the top three UK shopping centres for highest footfall figures. Manchester has the third largest UK shopping population after London West End and Glasgow and research shows that 88% of all tourists to city will visit Manchester Arndale as part of their visit.
Fast facts:
Manchester Arndale denim retailers sell over 270,000 pairs of denim jeans on average per year! That’s enough bums on seats at Old Trafford and Etihad Stadium for a whole weekend!
Manchester Arndale recently became the venue for a Guinness World Record attempt a shaving the most faces in eight hours, and subject to approval, can claim the new record of 268 men for the Big Shave Off charity event in aid of Orchid men’s cancer charity.
Manchester Arndale’s Facebook page www.facebook.com/manchesterarndale now has nearly a total of 16,000 fans.
The recently launched Twitter @manarndale now has 364 followers.
Visit www.manchesterarndale.com