Outside the new TK Maxx store in Fairgreen Shopping Centre are shopping centre manager Peter Thompson with Julia Jegorenkova, one of the 40 to be employed at the store in Mullingar, plus Katherine Jegorenkova and Anna Kovalcuka.

Tk maxx to open next week

The new TK Maxx store is to open at Fairgreen Shopping Centre at 10am on Thursday September 3, with a VIP guest lined up to perform the launch, and finger food to welcome new customers.

The famous discount retailer will create more than 40 new jobs for Mullingar, and offer designer labels and big brand styles for up to 60% less than the RRP.

Taking the space formerly occupied by Marks and Spencer in Fairgreen Shopping Centre, the new TK Maxx is the first of a number of positives for the complex in the next year.

“For the centre and for Mullingar, the opening of this new TK Maxx store is everything,” says Peter Thompson, manager of Fairgreen Shopping Centre.

“Our objective is, one – to have full units; and two – for the town to do well.”

“There’s 40 odd jobs going into the unit between management and staff. The way I look at that is it’s 40 extra pay packets that will be spent in Mullingar.

“Even with myself here, 90% of what I purchase for the centre is spent in the town. We employ local and we buy local,” said Peter, “and by bringing these shops to people’s doors, we expect the people to come in and shop local.”

As well as creating employment locally, businesses throughout Mullingar have already benefited from the arrival of the retail giant.

“Mullingar is a busy town. All the work that went on in the TK Maxx unit, from us gutting it out after Marks and Spencer left, to the TK Maxx fit-out, there was about 20 people a night staying in local hotels.

“The town got great support out of it,” Peter said.

“There’s a bypass at nearly every town in Ireland now and Mullingar is still holding its own. If anything the people of the town are striving to bring more and more business into it, and the town is looking well.

Mr Thompson also hinted at more additions to the centre during the course of the next 12 months.

“A town that is known to be a good town for shopping always attracts more business. There will definitely be more additions so there will be full occupancy within the next 12 months.”