New GW stores opening in: Warsaw and Shanghai ++ Hiring staff

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**Panic**

yeah,
noticed this in the what's new section...

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=&categoryId=400001a§ion=&aId=15100057a

GW website wrote:Capital City Store Managers for two new stores opening in: Warsaw and Shanghai

We are looking for independent, responsible, inspired and self confident people who can bring our hobby to the cities of Warsaw and Shanghai and is capable of opening and running a large Games Workshop store in a large international city.

This is an excellent opportunity to be involved at the beginning of the concept and shape your team around you. The role includes launching the store and driving it into the top 20 within the world.

The role requires determination and confidence. Working with other Capital City store managers, you would have high levels of responsibility and independence. The support network within Capital City stores is based on regular peer group contact and your fellow Capital City managers visiting you and vice-versa.

The Capital City stores are larger than average and will typically employ 2 full time and 3 part time staff. The manager must be capable of excellent leadership and capable of constantly improving the performance of the team. Coaching skills are essential.

Reporting directly to Head of Emerging Markets and Capita
Cities, you will need to be able to work alone and manage yourself although you will receive regular email and telephone contact.

Speaking English and the local language is essential.

These are unusual jobs and only the best should apply.

There will also be vacancies for Retail Sales Assistants.

For further information or to apply for either position, please contact Paul Dobson, Head of Emerging Markets at paul.dobson@games-workshop.co.uk.

For further information on Shanghai, contact Chris Harbor on telephone: + 86 21 5048 4386 or at chris.harbor@gamesworkshop.co.uk.

For further information on Warsaw, contact Doug Lister on telephone +115 9004442 or at doug.lister@games-workshop.co.uk.

If you would like to apply for either of these positions, please send your CV and covering letter to hr.recruitment@games-workshop.co.uk quoting ref number 205 for Warsaw or 206 for Shanghai by a closing date of 31st May 2011

PAnic...

**Kid_Kyoto**

I speak Chinese.

More or less.

**BrassScorpion**

Cool news! There's also more info available now for the NEW Maryland Battle Bunker. Check out the latest at
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/337787.page

**Alkasyn**

Well, a manager position I wouldnt be able to get probably, but a drone is in my reach. Anyone knows how high the average pay is for a drone over at GW stores?

**akira5665**

My Cantonese / Mandarin is awful...

My Polish is worse...

Lucky I can make "Pew-Pew" noises though...

And rolling a 1 on a 6 sided dice is universal - so no worries there

**His Master's Voice**

First official GW store in Poland. Better late than never I guess, though much will depend on the amount of space they'll offer for games/converting/painting/stuff...

**tokugawa**

Incomings from Chinese warhammer players, could hardly fill the shop's running cost...houserent in Shanghai is extremely high.

**Pacific**

What happened to the stores in Japan, did they tank or are they still there?

I heard years ago that there was talk of opening some stores in Korea, but nothing ever seemed to materialise.

**wildger**

In China and Japan, people pays a very high premium for space. How do you expect people to have a 4' x 6' table at home?

**Tony the guardsman**

Thank you GW!
Gonna have a store in my home town

**Pacific**

wildger wrote:In China and Japan, people pays a very high premium for space. How do you expect people to have a 4' x 6' table at home?

Thats a good point. But in a lot of Northern asia they seem to have 'rooms' for everything (playing PC games, pool etc.) operated like shops, and vertical space is utilised much more effectively than in most parts of the west when you have a shop on the ground floor and that's it. If it took off, I think the potential existed for 'playing' rooms to open, out of a town centre where property rates are far lower than in the west and you still have a massive population density which would increase numbers.

Not that it will happen, as I think GW in particular has got the blinkers on in terms of business expansion, instead choosing to corkscrew into ever tighter circles, but I think think the potential would be there if they chose to do so.

**RatBoy**

Just spoke to Chris in Shanghai.

tokugawa wrote:Incomings from Chinese warhammer players, could hardly fill the shop's running cost...houserent in Shanghai is extremely high.

They're talking with a local agency about opening the SH store in either Lujiazui near the IFC mall or somewhere in Puxi (probably one of the new Huaihai rd developments). There's been a huge number of new shopping malls built (and still more being built) in these districts over the past two years. I'm sure that space + rent won't be too difficult. Shanghai kids are spoiled rotten, they shouldn't have difficulty coughing up money for little metal toys

**JOHIRA**

Pacific wrote:What happened to the stores in Japan, did they tank or are they still there?

My local GW is still up and running. I think. I actually haven't been back there in months since I stopped seeing people actually playing games there.

wildger wrote:In China and Japan, people pays a very high premium for space.

I know this is true of urban Japan and I'd heard this is true of places in Shanghai (with rents like doubling in a couple years) but is this true of China as a whole?

**Lukus83**

Not really. Just the large cities I think. Not sure on how Beijing is doing but I had heard on the news they are putting some really strict controls in place to stop the rich from buying multiple properties and pricing the poor out of the market. Here in Shanghai it's about 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a square metre. Double that for business rentings in a popular area (think LuJiaZui or People Square).

Now running a store in LuJiaZui is something I would love to do...I have experience in all the game systems they have with the exception of BFG but I think the wife would be less than thrilled.

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Ha, and I just checked my wallet and found Chris's card he gave me last year...a telephone inquiry is in order me thinks.

**RiTides**

Also, you don't have to have a "dedicated" 4'x6' table... lots of people use the dinner table, y'know

**Erasoketa**

Poland has great painters and sculptors, it was about time for GW to do something else than printing White Dwarf issues there.

**ceorron**

Pacific wrote:
Thats a good point. But in a lot of Northern asia they seem to have 'rooms' for everything (playing PC games, pool etc.) operated like shops, and vertical space is utilised much more effectively than in most parts of the west when you have a shop on the ground floor and that's it. If it took off, I think the potential existed for 'playing' rooms to open, out of a town centre where property rates are far lower than in the west and you still have a massive population density which would increase numbers.

Not that it will happen, as I think GW in particular has got the blinkers on in terms of business expansion, instead choosing to corkscrew into ever tighter circles, but I think think the potential would be there if they chose to do so.

This

The west I feel must learn how to utilise space more efficiently if they want to make an effective transition, GW included.