Metro Bank, Britain's revolutionary retail bank today announces its expansion plans for 2012. The bank plans to double their number of stores to 20 by opening 10 new stores across Greater London and the South East of England including:
- High Wycombe
- Reading
- Ealing
- Chiswick
- Romford
- Hemel Hempstead
- Watford
- Brighton
- Staines
- The City
Each new store will feature Metro Bank’s unique seven day retail service with unrivalled opening hours of 8am till 8pm during the week, 8am - 6pm and 11am - 5pm at the weekends. All stores will continue to be child and dog friendly with balloons and lollies for the kids, customer toilets and baby changing facilities, Magic Money Coin Counting Machines, and dog bowls and dog biscuits for our four legged friends.
Metro Bank will also continue its rapid recruitment programme, with the addition of over 300 new positions through the network in 2012. Metro Bank is committed to giving employment opportunities to young people in the community of their stores, with over 60% of Metro Bank’s existing team members between the ages of 18 - 30. This year Metro Bank will employ almost double their numbers of staff, creating new jobs for hundreds of individuals.
Craig Donaldson, Chief Executive of Metro Bank commented, "2012 is going to be another hugely exciting year for us. We will bring our banking revolution to high streets and towns across London all of which will experience our fun, customer focused and convenient approach to banking. These towns will further benefit from our philosophy of employing local individuals and creating hundreds of new jobs across Greater London. 2011 was an incredibly successful year for Metro Bank, reaching over 45,000 current account holders, and we look forward to another year of revolutionising banking.”