{"id":19104,"date":"2025-04-14T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/19104\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:44:13","slug":"the-range-confirm-latest-new-northern-ireland-site-in-list-of-store-openings-planned-for-may-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/19104\/","title":{"rendered":"The Range confirm latest new Northern Ireland site in list of store openings planned for May \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Range has announced its first superstore in Co Tyrone will open in Cookstown next month.<\/p>\n

The move follows the retailer\u2019s acquisition of dozens of former Homebase sites after the DIY giant\u2019s latest collapse into administration<\/a>. <\/p>\n

CDS (Superstores International), which trades as The Range, took just two former Homebase sites in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

One of the sites in Bangor\u2019s Balloo Park reopened as The Range on April 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The second site, located in Cookstown\u2019s Orritor Road, is set to reopen in May.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Co Tyrone store was included in the latest list of former Homebase stores reopening as The Range across the UK and Ireland next month.<\/p>\n

The precise opening date has not yet been released.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understood all employees have been retained from the Cookstown site, with The Range also launching a recruitment drive last month for additional staff. <\/p>\n

The Range\u2019s parent entity, CDS (Superstores International), has kept the failed retail brand alive with new garden centres by Homebase included in each of the DIY sites it has reopened. <\/p>\n

CDS has already reopened former Homebase sites in Drogheda, Sligo, and Dublin\u2019s Santry.<\/p>\n

The next new Irish store is due to open in Portlaoise on Friday, with Cookstown following next month.<\/p>\n

It marks The Range\u2019s first store in Co Tyrone and brings the fast-growing discount retailer\u2019s Northern Ireland portfolio to 11.<\/p>\n

It comes nine years after Chris Dawson\u2019s discount department chain opened its first store in Northern Ireland in 2016.<\/p>\n

The Range has also been linked to a new store in Enniskillen.<\/p>\n

Four former Homebase sites in Antrim, Craigavon or Belfast\u2019s Galwally and Boucher Road, which were not included in the CDS deal, have already closed. <\/p>\n

\"TheThe former Homebase store in Cookstown. (Google) <\/p>\n

The south Belfast site next to Forestside has since been bought by Lidl for \u00a37.5 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two other sites in Omagh and Derry were acquired by Sainsbury\u2019s last summer<\/a>, three months before the DIY retailer\u2019s collapse into administration.<\/p>\n

They are currently being repurposed as new Sainsbury\u2019s branded supermarkets, expected to open later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Range has announced its first superstore in Co Tyrone will open in Cookstown next month. The move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[5116,12570,1144,363,12569,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-19104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-cookstown","9":"tag-homebase","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-retail","12":"tag-the-range","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114336148011787367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}