Dune Group steps onto Whittle Estate
Footwear retailer Dune Group has taken a 43,000 sq ft unit at Highcross’s Whittle Estate near Leicester. The Dune Group, which includes the Dune, Bertie and Chelsea Cobbler brands, said it will be using the premises for storage and dispatch for its e-commerce business.
The move comes as the company revealed plans to expand the e-commerce side of the business, as well as introducing opening shop-in-shop concessions within major department stores.
Roger Crooks, head of distribution at The Dune Group, said: “We now have more than 40 shops in the UK, plus around 150 concessions in key department stores throughout the UK and Europe, and this has created a need for further warehouse facilities. The size of the unit at the Whittle Estate and its proximity to our core operations were key elements in our decision to take the premises.”
Highcross has let the unit to The Dune Group on a three-year lease.
