UK kitchen and bedroom retailer, Wren Kitchens, is to invest £20 million and create around 169 new jobs as it opens 15 new showrooms this year.
Southport, Leamington Spa and Newport on the Isle of Wight are the latest locations to be signed up as the business accelerates its UK expansion plans. Work will commence on fitting out the Southport and Leamington Spa sites almost immediately. The showroom on the Isle of Wight is a new build site that should be open before the end of the year.
Wren currently has 124 showrooms across the UK, approximately half the number of some of its competitors and this announcement reflects the retailer’s long-term strategy of sustained nationwide expansion, backed by major investment in showroom development, innovative design technology, and customer experience.
Wren’s showroom experience is creative and hands-on. Customers will be able to explore full-size kitchen and bedroom displays, experiment with colour and style combinations, and step into their design using Wren’s virtual reality planning suites. Every showroom will also have expert designers on hand to turn ideas into a 3D plan, talk through layout options and provide clear pricing from the start.
Mark Pullan, CEO of Wren, said: “This £20m investment is the latest chapter in a sustained reinvestment programme, further strengthening our regional presence and bringing our growing product range to more customers, right on their doorstep.
“There is demand in the market for high-quality kitchen and bedrooms at affordable prices and alongside our investment in new showrooms we will be launching new categories later this year including offices, boot rooms, media walls, and utility rooms.
“It’s been a strong start to 2026 and encouragingly the double-digit market growth we saw last year has continued into the first quarter of this year.”
Wren employs more than 7,500 people in the UK and delivers over 3,000 kitchens and bedrooms every week to UK homes. Every Wren kitchen and bedroom sold in the UK is designed, manufactured and delivered from its own purpose built, state-of-the-art UK manufacturing facilities.
