MANCHESTER Arndale, the UK’s largest city centre shopping centre at 1.4m sq ft mall, has beaten its best-ever annual footfall total with over 41 million visitors in 2012.
Every week in December, footfall exceeded a million shoppers which has never happened before
The centre recorded a total of 41,377,255 visitors compared to last year’s total of 40,713,772, a 1.6% increase.
The traditional Boxing Day sales still proved to be a popular pull with 203,692 people visiting the centre compared to 191,733 the year before making it a 6.2% increase – the largest figure for Boxing Day in the Arndale's history.
Footfall figures also achieved record levels for New Year’s Day up 6.5%.
David Allinson, centre director, commented: “Every week in December, footfall exceeded a million shoppers which has never happened before - a real achievement for us. We found more people left their Christmas shopping until later this year, with the week beginning 17 December being the busiest showing an increase of 13.2% visitors on the last year.”
