21 Facts About The Warehouse

The Warehouse Group was founded by Stephen Tindall in 1982, and is the largest retail group operating in New Zealand.

In 1994, The Warehouse was added to the New Zealand Exchange, under the symbol TWH.

That same year, the Warehouse brand was relaunched with new lower-case logo, announced its plan to enter the liquor market and that it would end operations in Australia by Christmas.

In 2005, The Warehouse Australia was sold to Catalyst Investment Managers and Castle Harlan Australian Mezzanine Partners for A$92 million .

In 2006, The Warehouse began selling alcoholic beverages in selected stores and launched a new set of stores branded 'The Warehouse Extra' at Sylvia Park, Auckland, which included full grocery as well as a pharmacy, bakery and photo processing.

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In 2010, The Warehouse opened a store in Gisborne, New Zealand, the first large format store since the opening of The Warehouse Sylvia Park in 2006.

Later that year, The Warehouse announced it is buying electronics retailer The Noel Leeming Group for $65 million.

In May 2021, The Warehouse Group announced that fireworks would no longer be sold at The Warehouse stores.

The Warehouse operates discount retail department stores selling a broad range of non-grocery and grocery products.

The Warehouse is publicly traded on the New Zealand Stock Exchange with the security code WHS .

In March 2020, the Warehouse Group drew criticism when its directors prematurely announced that they were an "essential service" during the COVID-19 pandemic without consulting with the Government.

The Warehouse subsequently shut down its brands for the duration of the four-week lockdown with all staff being given full paid leave.

In October 2008 The Warehouse announced that they will be canning "The Warehouse Extra" format with stores reverting to the more traditional style of store coming months.

On Thursday 23 July 2009, The Warehouse Group opened the first of its smaller-concept stores, The Warehouse Local, in Mosgiel.

In 2017, The Warehouse Group unveiled its first "Store within a Store", with Warehouse Stationery moving into The Warehouse Auckland Airport after their lease at their previous Auckland Airport Mall premises ended.

The Warehouse sells items of essential use – sport equipment, gardening equipment, furniture, and so on.

The Warehouse Stationery is a blue coloured, big-box retail store similar to Australia's Officeworks or America's OfficeMax.

The Warehouse Group acquired Noel Leeming Group from Gresham Private Equity for NZ$65 million, effective from 10 December 2012.

TheMarket uses an established an organised network of 'MarketPoint' sites within The Warehouse Groups' existing 242 physical locations throughout New Zealand, including The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming and Torpedo7 stores and Rural MarketPoint sites are operated by FarmSource in partnership with Fonterra.

In July 2017, less than two years following the acquisition from Westpac, The Warehouse Group announced the sale of the financial services division.

In 2014, The Warehouse Group took over the chain and rebranded its stores as Torpedo 7.