Festive With Love pop-up store opens in Manchester

NOMA, a 20-acre space being created in Manchester city centre around the Amazon and Co-op HQs, has launched a pop-up department store offering only artisan British produce.

This also features an ‘edible’ Christmas tree, which grows seasonal herbs such as rosemary, thyme and sage and sits in Sadler’s Yard, Manchester’s newest public square and home to the Pilcrow, a hand-built community craft pub.

Members of the public can collect herbs and also attend free workshops. After Christmas, the tree will be dismantled and relocated to Patch, NOMA’s neighbourhood kitchen garden currently based in nearby Angel Square.

The With Love pop-up store is temporarily occupying the ground floor of the recently refurbished Dantzic, a Grade II listed building that has been transformed into contemporary workspace.

Available products include: Wasabi vodka made by The Wasabi Company. Walsh Trainers from Britains’ only remaining sports footwear manufacture, made in Bolton since 1961; Hampers and tea plants from Tregothnan tea estate in Cornwall, the UK’s first commercial tea plantation; Low alcohol beer sustainably brewed by the Small Beer Company in Bermondsey, London

Nicky Moore, Brand and Marketing Lead at NOMA, says: “We’re excited to bring such an array of ambitious, passionate businesses together for this pop-up and to invite Manchester to experience their stories in the surroundings of Dantzic, a beautifully refurbished 1930s warehouse which is the perfect location to showcase these high quality brands and products.”