Posted on 10 April 2014. Mobalpa, the French kitchen manufacturer and retailer, with 280 stores in France is now offering franchises in Britain after running a pilot unit at Warrington, Lancashire, for the past year. The company plans to open six stores in the UK over the next two years and the Warrington unit is targeted to reach sales of £1.1m this year and £1.3m next year. The store has achieved a 50 per cent conversion-to-sale rate in the past year. Mobalpa can trace its origins back to a cabinet-making workshop opened in 1907 at Thones in the French Alps. It now has three plants in France with more than...