Ash­ley Fur­ni­ture Home­Store re­cent­ly cel­e­brat­ed the grand open­ing of its new 20,000 square foot show­room in Ch­agua­nas.

The in­te­ri­or ar­chi­tec­tur­al de­sign in­cludes cul­tured South­west Ledge stone and com­plete home fur­ni­ture room set­tings down to the fi­nal de­tail of ta­ble lamps and area rugs.

This fa­cil­i­ty will em­ploy ap­prox­i­mate­ly 16 per­sons. It is the first Ash­ley Fur­ni­ture Home­Store owned and op­er­at­ed by Uni­com­er (Trinidad) Lim­it­ed. There are more than 625 lo­ca­tions in 28 coun­tries.

Gen­er­al man­ag­er Re­nee Lewis said: "The re­sponse lead­ing up to this event has been tremen­dous. We're proud to serve the Ch­agua­nas com­mu­ni­ty and by ex­ten­sion the na­tion as the num­ber one fur­ni­ture store brand, and we look for­ward to earn­ing their loy­al­ty and trust."

Mario Guer­rero, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor, Courts Caribbean and USA said: "We are very pleased to add Ash­ley Home­Store to the 30 re­tail brands we rep­re­sent in the re­gion.

Our com­pa­ny's suc­cess has been part­ly due to our part­ner­ships with or­ga­ni­za­tions, like Ash­ley, that share our val­ues and the com­mon goal to im­prove the re­tail ex­pe­ri­ence of our cus­tomers.

"Our re­la­tion­ship with Ash­ley start­ed six years ago with the in­tro­duc­tion of the brand's fur­ni­ture in our Courts stores. This part­ner­ship deep­ened with the open­ing of 13 ex­clu­sive Ash­ley Gal­leries across the re­gion. To­day, our Ash­ley Home­Stores in Ja­maica and Trinidad are tes­ti­mo­ny to our joint com­mit­ment to pro­vid­ing the very best range of fur­ni­ture and ac­ces­sories to the Caribbean peo­ple."

Max­ie Cuffie, speak­ing as act­ing Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, said the open­ing of the Ash­ley show­room in Ch­agua­nas un­der­scored the con­fi­dence which in­vestors, such as the Uni­com­er Group in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Ash­ley In­ter­na­tion­al, have in the econ­o­my of T&T.

The Ch­agua­nas lo­ca­tion, the first in T&T and the sec­ond in the Caribbean, fea­tures bed­room, din­ing room, up­hol­stery, mo­tion up­hol­stery, leather, oc­ca­sion­al ta­bles, en­ter­tain­ment cen­tres, home of­fice, re­clin­ers, mat­tress­es, lamps, ac­cent pil­lows, throws, area rugs and ac­ces­sories. The bed­ding gallery ex­hibits the most pop­u­lar mat­tress brands, in­clud­ing Ash­ley Sleep � one of the fastest grow­ing mat­tress brands in the world.

Uni­com­er, which is present in T&T through the ubiq­ui­tous Courts fur­ni­ture stores, will of­fi­cial­ly open an ex­pan­sive dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­tre in Freeport where its main ad­min­is­tra­tive of­fices will al­so be lo­cat­ed next month.