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(Image: Bruntwood SciTech)<\/p>\nPuma have announced the huge news(Image: Bruntwood SciTech)<\/p>\n
A major sport and fashion brand is moving its UK headquarters from London to Manchester, it\u2019s been confirmed.<\/p>\n
International sportswear giant Puma is set to make the move north after signing a lease for a new office block on Oxford Road<\/a> in the city centre. It will occupy No 3 Circle Square, an \u00a387m development recently confirmed as the new home for online car marketplace Auto Trader.<\/p>\n Puma will be well-known to the blue half of the city, as the company has manufactured Manchester City\u2019s kits since 2019, producing the sky blue shirt Pep Guardiola<\/a>\u2019s team won their iconic 2023 treble in.<\/p>\n Its arrival is the latest Manc fashion success story. The city hosted Chanel\u2019s Metiers d\u2019Art show in December 2023, with up-and-coming sportswear label Adanola also moving its head office to NOMA in 2024.<\/p>\n Council leader Bev Craig welcomed the move, saying it \u2018illustrates Manchester\u2019s international impact\u2019.<\/p>\n She added: \u201cManchester is a city of innovation and a city of style and we’re pleased that Puma has decided our existing ecosystem \u2014 the talent pool available and links with like-minded businesses and institutions \u2014 make it the perfect fit for them.<\/p>\n “We look forward to welcoming Puma to Circle Square and seeing what interesting new opportunities their presence here will open up both for them and for Manchester people.”<\/p>\n Executives at the German company, founded in 1948 by Rudolf Dassler whose brother Adi formed Adidas, said they made the decision to relocate because of the city\u2019s \u2018creative talent\u2019 and established academic prowess in the fashion industry.<\/p>\n Lucynda Davies, UK managing director at Puma, said: \u201cBeing surrounded by such a strong line up of industry was an important factor, and to find somewhere in the heart of Manchester\u2019s thriving tech community is exactly what we hoped for.<\/p>\n \u201cBeing based at Circle Square will also open up a host of opportunities to tap into the city\u2019s creative talent pool and strengthen our existing links with academic partners like Manchester Metropolitan University \u2013 of which we get the added benefit of Bruntwood SciTech being a partner.\u201d<\/p>\n Puma will move its sales, marketing, merchandising, finance, people & operations and direct to consumer departments to Manchester.<\/p>\n Staff will enjoy the building\u2019s shared roof terrace with expansive views across the city from No 3 Circle Square, part of a wider \u00a3243m programme of office redevelopment across Manchester from Bruntwood SciTech.<\/p>\n Alongside Circle Square, the company\u2019s spending big on the Sister project, which includes renovating former university buildings between Oxford Road and Piccadilly station.<\/p>\n Its investment comes at a time when some fear Manchester may run out of new office developments<\/a> in 2027, something Andy Burnham<\/a> said was \u2018quite sobering\u2019 in December.<\/p>\n One expert explained how that can become \u2018a barrier for how we grow the city\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you haven’t got those new buildings for [major international firms], it’s not to say absolutely they wouldn’t come to Manchester, but it obviously changes the nature of the \u2018sell story\u2019 you’ve got for them, because now you’re not taking them to a brand new address,\u201d Colin Thomasson, executive director of commercial real estate giants CBRE, said in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Puma have announced the huge news(Image: Bruntwood SciTech) A major sport and fashion brand is moving its UK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,8086,8828,31074,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-64133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-manchester-city-centre","13":"tag-manchester-council","14":"tag-oxford-road","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114429448302699080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64133","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=64133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_Britain-Soccer-FA-Cup.jpg\")
City have worn Puma since 2019(Image: AP)<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_LR-No3-Circle-Square-Symphony-Gardens-CGI_Bruntwood-SciTech.jpg\")
(Image: Bruntwood SciTech)<\/p>\n