Quirky Gift Shop Pad Launches New Website

Over 270 of their unusual and quirky products have been uploaded already, with plans to promote over 500 products in total. 

Pad is actively looking to work with home and garden magazines to showcase some of their quirky and unusual products.  If interested in featuring a product please do get in touch.


ABOUT PAD
The world of pad was created by Darren Birch and David Winterton. Having spent several years bringing rundown Victorian and Edwardian terrace houses back to life in the leafy South Manchester suburb of Chorlton, it became increasingly clear that many of the finishing touches for these projects were being bought while they were both on business trips to London, Glasgow and further afield. They soon realised that there was a gap in the market and decided to open their first shop pad-chorlton with the mission of bringing fabulous hard to find items to South Manchester.

In December 2007 (9 months after opening) The Guardian Newspaper named pad-chorlton in their "UK's Best Independent Gift Shops" listings. pad-chorlton was the only gift shop in Greater Manchester (and one of only four shops in the North West) to be included.

The Guardian said of pad-chorlton - "Although it primarily sells homeware, pad's lighting, homeware, kitchenware and other products are designed so well that they could easily be given as gifts."

Fast forward to March 2008 and pad-chorlton was named as a finalist in the Best Gift Shop Newcomer category for the North of England at the annual Gift Retailer of the Year Awards.

During 2011 Pad started producing our own products including a range of greeting cards and some fantastic Chorlton related mugs. The reaction was brilliant with our mugs selling out in record time! They are planning on producing more products moving forward and hope to start selling them to other specially selected independant retailers.