BRITAIN’s greatest sunbed chain has launched its newest salon at a brand new Scots retail park.
The high-spec salon was among the many first retailers to start out welcoming prospects to the advanced in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, following a £350,000 funding by Indigo Solar.
Previously the positioning of a pet meals manufacturing unit, the Barrhead Retail Park website had lain vacant for 15 years previous to its transformation – and is now set to see a bunch of massive identify retail and meals retailers open within the coming weeks.
Frank Taylor, founder and CEO of the household agency, which now operates greater than 100 salons throughout the UK, stated the £15m new website was ideally suited for Indigo Solar’s ongoing enlargement ambitions.
He stated: “The Barrhead website is ideal for us. It serves a big catchment space, provide intensive parking and the number of companies primarily based right here ensures that it will likely be a massively widespread vacation spot constructed round buyer comfort.
“Every little thing now could be about location. We’re searching for retail websites in cities which might be on most important arterial routes, provide free parking and have entry to a various vary of different retailers – Barrhead Retail Park ticks all the containers.
“We’re thrilled to be a part of this rejuvenation of such an vital website for the city. It provides us a very large presence on this a part of Scotland and we intend to construct on that.”
The brand new salon, fitted out with 13 hi-tech sunbeds, turns into the fourth in a cluster inside a 10-mile radius together with Paisley, Linwood and Glasgow.
Indigo Solar’s ongoing enlargement has been fuelled by investments in comparable websites throughout the UK, with its salons including to the variety of places that usually embrace big-name supermarkets, pharmacies and gymnasiums.
The reinvention of the Barrhead website – a former Nestle Purina manufacturing unit which lay derelict for 15 years – is a significant boon for the realm.
It features a new Lidl, B&M, Starbucks, Gateway Well being and the primary Scottish department of famend US meals outlet, Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen.
Earlier this 12 months, Indigo Solar reported its most profitable 12 months ever, recording a turnover of greater than £26m and nearly £5.6m revenue in its newest monetary 12 months.
Throughout lockdown Frank and his senior staff drew up formidable enlargement plans to make sure Indigo Solar emerged from the pandemic on the very best footing.
Because the nation returned to regular, the tanning enterprise was serving as much as 140,000 individuals every week at peak time and figures confirmed typical prospects have been investing £500 per 12 months into tanning.
Frank added: “We’ve confirmed that after we put our salons into handy places, near a wide selection of different retailers and with simple parking, the British individuals love treating themselves to a secure and wholesome tan.
“One more reason our salons are rising in reputation is due to the price and complexity of the tools.
“Fashionable sunbeds now have options comparable to Bluetooth in order that prospects can join their telephones and play their very own alternative of music.
“In addition they have subtle aircon programs and sensitivity settings for particular pores and skin varieties.
“Our salons even have extra sunbeds put in to scale back ready instances and devoted workers with an in-depth data on using sunbeds.”
With its youthful buyer base and enormous foot fall, Indigo Solar is now a first-rate goal for retail developments like Barrhead, that are inside city or metropolis limits, however sit outdoors of conventional city centres.
Throughout the UK the agency, which is headquartered in Stirling, is concentrating on its enlargement on cities or populations centres of a minimum of 100,000 individuals.
