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Bodycare stores to close - here's a list of the 32 locations
High street beauty chain Bodycare has confirmed it will shut 32 shops and cut around 450 jobs.
Sky News' City editor Mark Kleinman reported last week that the health and beauty retailer, founded on a Lancashire market stall more than half a century ago, was facing a fall into administration. No rescue deal came, and the store has announced today that it will need to close stores.
These are: BeverleyCameron TollCannockClydebankCramlingtonCroydonDarwenDumfriesEdinburghErdingtonFalkirkHemel HempsteadKirkcaldyLoughboroughLytham St AnnesMacclesfieldMaidstoneMorecambeNewportNorthfieldPaisleyParkheadPerthPort TalbotRhylRoytonScunthorpeStourbridgeTamworthWest BromwichWood GreenWrexhamBodycare, which until today, had 147 UK stores and a 1,500-strong workforce, said it had come under pressure from rising costs, a delayed transition from its online retail platform and cost-of-living pressures on its shoppers. It also said it suffered a shortfall in funding after aborting a planned stock market listing last year, which also impacted supplier relationships and led to stock shortages.
The company hired administrators from advisory firm Interpath, which is now looking at a potential sale of the business and its assets, on Friday. The insolvency specialists have said they will continue to run the business from the majority of its shops for the time being.
These shops "will remain open and operational as usual.
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