Central Co-op opens new store at Botany Bay Business Park with golden ticket excitement

Posted by lauryn mellor | Published: 06/05/2025

Central Co-op has officially opened the doors to its brand-new store at Botany Bay Business Park in Chorley, bringing a fresh, community-focused shopping experience to the area.

The store was opened on the 1st of May with a special ribbon-cutting ceremony led by children from St Peter’s Primary School and Botany Bay owner, Tim Knowles. Each child who attended was gifted a fruit plush toy as a thank you for helping to mark the occasion in style.

To celebrate the launch, Central Co-op treated early visitors to a Golden Ticket event. The first 50 customers to queue outside the store at 10am received a golden ticket with a guaranteed prize inside. Prizes ranged from fruit plush toys and Fairtrade chocolate to bottles of prosecco - and one lucky customer took home the grand prize: six bottles of award-winning Co-op Les Pioneers Champagne.

The new store has created 16 local jobs and features a host of modern amenities to meet the needs of today’s shoppers, including:

• A customer toilet
• EV charging (coming soon)
• Bike station
• InPost lockers
• In-store bakery
• Food-to-Go station including a Tango Ice Blast machine, hot food and Insomnia coffee machine

This launch also coincides with Central Co-op’s exciting new competition running throughout May - “Go Premium. Win Big.” - where one lucky Member and one colleague will win free lunch for an entire year.

Running from 1st to 31st of May, every premium meal deal purchased counts as one entry into the prize draw - just scan your Central Co-op Membership card at the till. The premium range includes delicious options like YO! poke bowls, Global American cheeseburgers, Irresistible salads and sandwiches, as well as sweet and savoury snacks and refreshing drinks.

Kenny Keys, Property Project Delivery Manager for the store at Central Co-op, said: “We’re thrilled to open our newest store in Chorley, it’s fantastic to be part of the vibrant Botany Bay development and to offer local shoppers’ great value, great food and a real sense of co-operative difference. We’re excited to see our new store become a hub for local businesses and the community.”

For more information about Central Co-op, including Membership benefits and store locations, visit www.centralcoop.co.uk. Details on becoming a Member can be found at Members.coop.

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Lauryn Mellor, PR and Media Specialist at Central Co-op
lauryn.mellor@centralcoop.co.uk
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