Magnet Locations Near You

This retailer is foremost in designing and building trendy, highly functional, innovative kitchens. Despite the company’s well-known status, there may still be things you didn’t know. We have included our five favourite facts about this kitchen retailer below.

1. The company and Samsung joined forces to create an intelligent kitchen that incorporated Samsung’s connected home appliances with their innovative kitchen furniture range.
2. They align themselves with the National Autistic Society and help to raise money and awareness for the charity organisation.
3. In 2018, the brand launched a campaign to celebrate the treasured family moments in kitchens.
4. In 2000, it was the first kitchen retailer in the country to achieve the TrustMark accreditation.
5. The retailer’s Sutton showroom introduced the UK’s first 3D virtual reality kitchen modeller.

As the country’s most experienced and biggest specialist kitchen retailer, they offer the broadest range of kitchens. They sell everything needed to design and build a kitchen virtually from scratch. Their stock range includes washers, dryers, fridges, wine coolers, range cookers, ovens, hoods, microwave ovens, hobs, dishwashers, and coffee machines. The retailer also sells a wide range of accessories, including lighting solutions, intelligent kitchen products, worktops, taps, sinks, knobs, handles, and flooring.

In addition to the actual products, the company offers a full range of services to help customers design and build their kitchens. This includes their unique Full Circle Service, which covers everything from the Home Survey to Installation and eventually the Smart Care Check they carry out after one year.

Magnet was first established in 1918 in the West Yorkshire town of Bingley by Tom Duxbury. The legend is that Duxbury had traded a horse he owned for a fire-lighting company and named the subsequent business after the horse. Through the ’20s, the company pioneered the world of mass-produced window, door, and joinery products. It started supplying components for large building projects. They opened new operations in Knaresborough, Grays, and Keighley. Its first branch opened in 1960 in Bingley, and 1970 kitchen products were added. A new factory was built soon after in Darlington to manufacture kitchen furniture.

Then, in 1975, the company became the biggest joinery product manufacturer in the country, with 115 branches. It then merged with Southern Evans to create Magnet & Southern. It expanded throughout the ’80s, with more manufacturing operations being added in Deeside, Burnley, Penrith, Thornton, and Rotherham. They also, in time, bought Thomas Easthams. After noting the growth in the DIY sector, the company repositioned itself in the retail kitchen sector, and its first showroom was opened in 1980. It sold Southern Evans, and in 1990, separate Trade and Retail divisions were formed for the business to maximise the customer service they offered to consumers in both sectors. In the 2000s, Nobia bought Magnet.