THE finishing touches are being made to a Pandora jewellery store is set to open in Barrow this weekend.

The Pandora store is being fitted out in Portland Walk with a special event lined up to take place this Saturday.

It will fill the empty premises previously occupied by Jessops until its closure in 2009.

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The franchisees of the shop are Graeme and Helen Hogarth, who already own three Pandora branches in Kendal, Bowness and Workington.

PANDORA: A HISTORY

Pandora is an international Danish jewellery manufacturer and retailer founded in 1982 by Per Enevoldsen;

The company started as a solitary store in Copenhagen before importing jewellery from Thailand and selling to consumers;

Today, Pandora products are sold in more than 90 countries on six continents through approximately 9,500 points of sale;

The company employs over 15,000 people, of whom 10,400 are located in Gemopolis, Thailand, the company's sole manufacturing site since 1989;

In 2011, it was reported that more than one piece of Pandora jewellery was sold every second.