Trafford Centre<\/a>. It will become the 13th standalone Haribo store in the UK and first in the Greater Manchester region.<\/p>\nBosses have also announced a special guest will greet the first shoppers through the door from 10am on Friday December 5.<\/p>\n
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Goldbear, the Haribo mascot, will make a guest appearance at the new Trafford Centre store(Image: Haribo)<\/p>\n
For none other than Goldbear, Haribo’s iconic cartoon bear mascot, will be appearing at the store opening in life-sized form. Goldbear will be doing the official ribbon-cutting ceremony as well as hanging around for photos with fans.<\/p>\n
There will also be a sweet treat in store for the first 75 customers who purchase something on the opening day. They can expect a free goody bag alongside their purchase if they make it to the front of the queue.<\/p>\n
Throughout the shop’s first week, lucky Haribo fans will also be selected to receive random goodies to celebrate the store opening.<\/p>\n
The new store will feature classics like Starmix and Tangfastics, plus new favourites like Nostalgix.<\/p>\n
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The new store will feature colourful displays(Image: Haribo)<\/p>\n
The store also offers a wide array of Haribo’s halal, vegan, and reduced-sugar products, as well as exciting international varieties.<\/p>\n
Interactive features include a ‘Pick your Mix’ station with over 40 different products to choose from. On top of this, shoppers can browse exclusive gifts and merchandise.<\/p>\n
For the festive season, popular Christmas treats like Merry Mix and Elf Surprises will be available, along with other stocking fillers.<\/p>\n
It will become Haribo\u2019s third retail opening this year, with bosses saying it “marks another exciting milestone in its ever-expanding retail presence across the UK”.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Fox, Head of Retail at HARIBO UK, said: “We can\u2019t wait to welcome Trafford Centre shoppers to our latest HARIBO store just in time for the festive period. T he Christmas season brings a feeling of magic and excitement, that we want to share with both local fans and those travelling to this world renowned location.<\/p>\n
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Haribo is set to open in December at the Trafford Centre – amid a raft of new openings at the giant mall(Image: MEN)<\/p>\n
“We want anyone walking into this new store to be taken back to the nostalgic feeling of stepping into a sweets shop for the first time and to enjoy some moments of childlike happiness together with each other and our team throughout this festive season and beyond!”<\/p>\n
Simon Layton, Centre Director at Trafford Centre, added: \u201cWe\u2019re excited to welcome HARIBO to Trafford Centre, just in time for Christmas. The new store promises to deliver a super-sweet experience for all ages, and we\u2019re confident that our visitors will love it!”<\/p>\n
HARIBO is UK\u2019s leading sweets manufacturer and one of Yorkshire’s largest employers. They employ a team of over 600 skilled sweet-makers across two Yorkshire manufacturing facilities in Pontefract and Castleford.<\/p>\n
They have been producing the much-loved treats for over 50 years \u2013 including Haribo’s top selling products Tangfastics, Starmix, Supermix, and Giant Strawbs, as well as our traditional Pontefract Cakes.<\/p>\n
HARIBO was founded by Hans Riegel Senior in Bonn, Germany back in 1920 \u2013 and the name reflects his name – HA (Hans) RI (Riegel) BO (Bonn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s the first standalone store from the sweet-maker in Greater Manchester – and will offer a very special…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,12232,393,4884,22137,2465,485,8880,1289,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-584151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-days-out","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-happy-news","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-manchester-family","15":"tag-the-trafford-centre","16":"tag-trafford","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115586296298479338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584151","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=584151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Haribo will open its first Trafford Centre store on December 5 – and it will include a pick ‘n’ mix(Image: Haribo)<\/p>\n