Oka has returned to the location of its first head office, 16 years after it first arrived.
The move comes five months after the retailer exited its CVA restructuring, which saw stores, distribution and offices closed.
Oka has 12,971sqft of office space on Milton Park, Oxfordshire. It first moved there in 2009, when it outgrew co-founder Annabel Astor’s barn, leaving in 2021.
‘We have been able to curate and design a home of our own here at Milton Park, one which really reflects us as a brand and allows us to realise our future growth ambitions as we look towards our 30th anniversary,’ says Aalish Yorke-Long, Oka co.
The chain has recently moved its outlet store from Didcot to Bicester Village and opened at Redbrick Mill. Distribution is handled by AIT.
InvestIndustrial, the Italian private equity group which owns B&B Italia, Flos and Louis Poulsen, bought into Oka in 2018, and backed the CVA and an ‘ambitious new phase of growth for the company, with further physical stores and omnichannel developments planned.’
‘The Milton Park team provided us with a real blank canvas and welcoming space that we have been able to transform. It has brought our departments together under one roof in a way we’ve never had before, and into a space which embodies our open, collaborative and design-led brand values,’ says Yorke-Long.
