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Sept
Harrogate shop moves to new town-centre premises after 100% increase in trade
One of Harrogate’s best-known shops is moving across town to new premises after doubling its trade over the last 18 months.
Rhodes Wood, the menswear retailer that has traded from the bottom of Parliament Street since 1997, is to move to a larger unit on Station Parade’s Prince Albert Row.
The parade of shops opposite the Everyman cinema is best known for high-end names, including Rigby and Peller, Woods of Harrogate, Stephen Neall Interiors, and Bang & Olufsen.
Jeremy Beaumont.
Jeremy Beaumont, the man who founded and still runs Rhodes Wood, told the Stray Ferret:
Our business has doubled in the last 18 months and we need more space with onsite stockrooms.
Also, there is more synergy with new neighbours on Prince Albert Row, with more high-profile businesses.
There will be more space, with two sales floors, housing casual wear and objects of virtue. The upper floor will be used exclusively for ready to wear and custom tailoring.
We’ve been renovating the new premises for seven weeks, and we hope to open there in early October.
Mr Beaumont has been renovating the premises for the last seven weeks.
Although it has been located in a prominent position in Harrogate town centre for nearly 30 years, Rhodes Wood is not universally known in the town. But in recent years it has developed a strong presence on social media and now has more than 400,000 followers on Instagram and over half a million on Tiktok, where Mr Beaumont’s videos routinely clock up more than 30,000 views. One (‘How to tie a full Windsor knot’) has been viewed over 12 million times.
In large part as a result of this publicity, the company now takes orders from the US and Canada, Australia and mainland Europe.
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