Bombay Stores

Founded by Abdul Kader

In post war Britain there was a desperate need, among some of the less well paid public service areas unable to match wages with booming industries, for semi-skilled staff to fill the jobs that many rejected. In answer to this came Abdul Kader, who arrived in Bradford in 1957 with a float of £50 to keep him going while he sought work.

Undaunted the young Abdul Kader did what go-getters faced with problems do best. He outworked the locals in his desire to succeed, first of all as a bus conductor with responsibility for ticket sales and accounting, driver liaison and passenger safety on the door-less buses of the time. Within six years he had saved sufficient to pay the deposit on an old chip shop going for £1000. He continued to work double shifts while Mrs Maryam Kader put in similar hours as a dressmaker in their corner drapery shop at 306 Great Horton Road Bradford.

Bradford Textiles Heritage

For sixteen years the man and wife team served the Asian community in their Bradford heartland selling Lancashire cottons to Yorkshire Asians. As the British textile industry entered its sad decline the Kaders automatically turned to their homeland in South East Asia for supplies of fabrics and special embroidered silks for the shop trading as Bombay Stores.

Next generation

In the early 1980's, son Saleem saw the potential of wholesaling to similar outlets serving the Asian communities throughout the north. The family then bought a 15,000 square feet disused garage, which nowadays houses their superstore i.e., Bombay Stores, The Largest Asian Department Store in the Great Britain, which is managed by the daughter Sabra Kader along with grandson Shayaan Saleem Kader.

As seen on TV

Coronation Street: In Summer 2004 The One Stop Wedding Shop of Bombay Stores has supplied wedding furniture including a modern mandap for one of the famous weekly TV serial in the United Kingdom.

Latest fashions & textiles

Bombay Stores has a range of English and Asian fashion in stock. Over the years we have acquired a range of different accessories to complete the Asian woman. We range from designer shoes to complementing bindis. From exemplary, outfits to colourful jewellery.

Where Bombay Stores caters the Asian ethnic minority community in the Northwest and Northeast of England there it also caters a wider community base of Britain and Europeans through its Retail and Wholesale operations as well as ecommerce all across the country and the continental Europe.

Footwear line

In early 2005, Bombay Stores introduced another product line to their business on demand by public in Bradford and from all over Yorkshire.

This new and highly famous footwear brand is called Paposh which offers whole ranges of footwear to women, men and children.

Opening Hours

Sun	09:00	19:30
Mon	09:00	19:30
Tue	09:00	19:30
Wed	09:00	19:30
Thu	09:00	19:30
Fri	09:00	19:30
Sat	09:00	19:30