In the run up to Christmas, the Merrion Centre in Leeds city centre experienced increased visitor numbers compared to 2010.

Visitor numbers since October have shown an encouraging increase on last year with over 900,000 shoppers visiting the centre during December, an increase of 7.6% per cent on the previous year.
 
Andrew Stringer, Centre Manager at the Merrion Centre said:  "We are really pleased with how we performed last month. This in part was due to a great deal of festive activity and entertainment in the centre including a free Santa’s grotto which was visited by thousands of children and the i-pad competition which attracted two thousand entrants.  This year we have an even busier and varied calendar of events and promotions for our customers to enjoy. ”
 
Store manager Mike Green from Yorkshire Linen, a local family based company founded in 1993, said:  “Trade was extremely encouraging over Christmas and it was certainly an improvement on the previous year.”
 
Store Manager, Sarah Holmes from Superdrug said: “Trade was good and we experienced like for like sales over the Christmas period, which was encouraging in the current economic climate.”

For more information on the Merrion Centre visit www.merrioncentre.co.uk and for more information on TCS visit www.tcs-plc.com.

<< Back to News