AN INDEPENDENT carpet and bed business says it has hard a successful start to trading on new premises.

Carpet Barn & The Bed Store, which opened recently at Nuffield Industrial Estate in Poole, also said it was achieving impressive results for its new-look website, which has been live for four months.

The company relocated to the 14,000sqft premises in May from a smaller unit at Tower Park and said the move had increased footfall.

Carpet Barn director Darren Ironside said: “We took the decision to relocate to bigger premises in Poole as we needed more space and wanted to enhance the flooring and bedding offerings.

“We have now introduced a mezzanine section to the unit, which houses our new bed and furniture showroom. More space has also been devoted to the Karndean range of luxury vinyl flooring options as we are the only Platinum Karndean retailer in the south."

The retailer, which also has stores in Ferndown, Eastleigh and Fareham, is now gearing up an ‘epic’ sale at the end of September.