page_title: Boyes (retailer)
section_title: Further expansion
hierarchical_section_title: Boyes (retailer) / History / Further expansion
caption_attribution_description: English: Boyes, Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
context_page_description: Boyes is a chain of department stores in England. William Boyes founded the firm in 1881 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire and it has been run by generations of the Boyes family ever since.
  The company's slogan is "for good value" and the stores specialise in the discount retail sector, stocking a mixture of regular lines, one off special purchases and clearance items. Boyes stores stock over 30,000 products over a large range including household products, fashion and footwear.
  Its full trading name is W Boyes and Co. Ltd, however the stores trade as "Boyes". It is still owned and family run with Andrew Boyes and his son Richard as joint managing directors. Richard represents the fifth generation of the family.
  The company is based at its head office at Havers Hill in Eastfield. It expanded this site with the purchase of the former Polestar Greaves factory in 2011. It also has a warehouse site at nearby Hopper Hill.
  The stores serve around 250,000 customers a week. They run a twice yearly sale and hold other promotional events.
context_section_description: Boyes opened stores in Billingham in 1967, Darlington in 1970 and Louth in 1976. The tenth store in Northallerton opened in 1977.
  The company then developed a chain of stores throughout Northern England in the following decades.
  A store was opened in Bridlington in 1998 which has a museum with artefacts from the firm's history as well as a recreation of a till point from the start of the 20th century.
  The company's first store in West Yorkshire, in Bradford, opened in 2003. Boyes took over the former Christopher Pratts store in North Parade after Pratts relocated to Leeds. At the time the company invested more than £500,000 to refurbish the store before opening and the store was one of the biggest in the chain. The company opened a small section of the store earlier in 2003 before a full opening in September. In 2019 the store relocated from North Parade to the Kirkgate Centre. The North Parade site had become unviable with the company citing factors including the closure of the city centre Morrisons store and the planned relocation of the market in the area. Boyes took over the former Argos unit in the centre.
  Boyes has expanded its reach further by opening several stores in the East Midlands and as far south as Cambridgeshire. The company reached its landmark 50th store with the opening of the Coalville store in 2014.
  The company has increased store numbers in many cases by moving into units vacated by other retailers. They have taken over ex-Woolworths stores in Cleethorpes, Bishop Auckland and Coalville. Former Co-op department stores in Brighouse, Ilkley, March and Ripley have been taken over, and a couple of vacated Marks and Spencer stores in Grantham and South Shields.
  In recent years the company has relocated some of its branches to new locations in the same town. As well as the Bradford relocation, in 2017 the Gainsborough store was relocated due to the original one being demolished for the building of a new Lidl supermarket. Boyes now trade from a newly built unit on the site of the former Crown House. In 2018 the Middlesbrough store moved from the Dundas Centre to the Hill Street Centre, moving into a former Argos outlet.
  Store numbers reached 67 in September 2019 with the opening of a store in Barton-upon-Humber, the first to be adorned with the new company logo.
caption: Boyes, King Street, Bridlington
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