Boohoo Recruits 50 Full-Time Staff As Global Expansion Heats Up

UPDATE: See our review of the Boohoo.com business, out on Wednesday November 13


Fashion website Boohoo wants to recruit 50 staff over the next few months as it prepares for further expansion into the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The new recruits will take staff numbers to 650 based at its Manchester headquarters - based in the city’s Northern Quarter - in distribution at its Burnley warehouse and as it prepares for global growth.

The positions will include marketing, distribution and ecommerce positions. The business, led by chief executive Mahmud Kamani, has seen ‘exponential growth’ since its international growth drive last year, according to the Manchester Evening News.

Head of human resources Kathy Allison told the newspaper: ‘It is a really exciting time for the company. In 2012, we recruited and inducted over 130 permanent team members to the Boohoo family. We have been in business for six years and started with a mere four employees. Today we employ over 600 permanent and temporary staff.’

The company has shoppers in more than 100 European countries, has plans to launch into other European markets ‘imminently’ and has already launched into menswear this year.