Firm supplies display units

HOT snack provider Greggs will be keeping the steak bakes warm at its new Burbage shop thanks to a Hinckley business.

The new store features a Flexeserve hot display unit provided by The Alan Nuttall Partnership, which has a base in the town.

The bakery chain is the first to open an outlet in a seven-unit retail complex on Rugby Road, near the railway line.

Nuttall’s supply of kit to Greggs has helped show- case its products to grow- ing export market, while its other customers in the UK include Marks and Spencer, and Pret A Manger.

Greggs already has two branches nearby in Hinckley town centre, one in Castle Street and the other in the Britannia Centre.

Next to open, this week, in the Rugby Road complex are Toolstation and Johnsons Cleaners.

Johnsons was based at the location before the development, and the business has continued to operate there while the building works took place.

Heart of England Cooperative Society is running the complex and is setting up a convenience store in one of the spaces.

The store will open on January 16, 2020, with an official opening event on January 18.

Chief executive Ali Kurji said: “We have had a presence in Hinckley for many years and are delighted to be returning with the opening of our new food store on the 18th January 2020.

“It is an incredibly exciting project and one which will mark a new chapter for the Heart of England Society in the region.”

Goody bags with scratch cards, premier foods and other items will be available for the first 100 customers at the Co-op opening event.

A prize draw and balloon animals for children will also be going on.

The other groups moving in, which are yet to confirm an opening date, are Topps Tiles, The Salvation Army, which is creating a donation centre in one of the larger units, and tanning group Consol, which is setting up a salon.

Mr Kurji said previously that they expect a lot of shoppers will come from the residential areas nearby as well as motorists passing through.

He said: “We will get a lot of footfall from the houses across the road and people going back in the evening.

“There’s a reasonable amount of parking.

“It’s a question of you pop in and get what you want, pick it up and go home.

“You don’t have to spend a lot of time in a convenience store.”