Home improvement retailer Kingfisher is on the hunt for 1,200 new colleagues.

The group says it will create 230 jobs at its B&Q stores with additional jobs created at 29 former Focus stores acquired earlier this year, in addition to 570 jobs saved at the time of the purchase with a further 1,000 new jobs at its Screwfix stores.

The retailer is also expanding internationally. Earlier this week it announced plans to invest £115m in nine new Castorama stores in Russia over the next two years.

A Screwfix spokesperson told Recruiter: “Those 1,000 roles will be created in the main as a result of the new branch openings across the country. They will be store branch managers and support staff behind those branch managers. We will use conventional formats to recruit - so our own career site, regional press and direct recruitment.”