Crawshaws to create 18 jobs with new £250k Blackburn store

Rotherham-headquartered Crawshaws, the fresh meat and food-to-go retailer, will create more than a dozen jobs next week with the launch of its first shop in Blackburn.

The butchery chain has created 18 new jobs and invested £250k at the 1,000 sq ft Blackburn site, which will be its 16th North West store and 41st overall.

The opening, which follows expansion into the Birchwood area at the beginning of February, forms part of a wider £200m plan to open 200 new stores and create as many as 2,500 jobs across the UK.

Crawshaws CEO Noel Collett, the driving force behind the firm’s ambitious growth strategy, commented: “Blackburn is a key opening for us and will help cement our expanding position in Lancashire, we’ve invested over £1m in the region already.

“Our store is in an area of regeneration, right around the corner from the new bus station which is due to open at Easter, we’re opposite Morrisons and near the King William Street Mall, so we’re in a great footfall location.”

The new store, located on Railway Road, will open its doors on Wednesday (March 16).