Bodycare to shut a further 30 stores after beauty chain collapse

Pritti MistryBusiness reporterAlamyA additional 30 Bodycare shops are to close following the well being and sweetness chain’s collapse into administration.The retailer fell into administration on 5 September and instantly closed 32 of its 147 outlets with the lack of 450 jobs.The corporate’s directors have now mentioned one other 14 shops will shut on Tuesday whereas 16 extra will shut on Thursday.A spokesperson for the directors mentioned the enterprise was up on the market and there had been “curiosity from numerous events” in relation to a few of the remaining 85 shops, the way forward for which it hoped to safe.”Sadly, nevertheless, given the scarcity of inventory and prices related to working shops, it’s not viable to proceed to commerce all 115 shops retained on appointment,” the spokesperson mentioned.Till it entered administration, the agency employed about 1,500 folks.The directors beforehand mentioned the shops had turn out to be too costly to take care of amidst rising rents, with retailers going through “difficult instances”.Nick Holloway, managing director at Interpath and joint administrator, mentioned: “We would like to specific our honest due to the lots of of devoted Bodycare employees who’ve proven such professionalism since our appointment. “We are going to proceed to commerce the remaining 85 shops whereas we stay in discussions with events with the purpose of preserving as a lot of the enterprise as attainable.”Bodycare was based in Lancashire in 1970. Its retailer layouts are identified for his or her vibrant lighting and window shows that always characteristic piles of bathroom tissue or pyramids of washing up powder.It additionally affords warehouse-style show cabinets filled with items reminiscent of lip balm, fragrance, false nails and foot cream.The shops closing on Tuesday are: Bolton Bromsgrove Castleford Chesterfield Doncaster Greenock Mansfield SalfordSkiptonStevenageSutton-in-AshfieldThornabyUlverstonWhitehavenThe shops closing on Thursday are: Dudley Dunfermline Hanley Hull Hyde Ilford Ipswich Morpeth NewarkNorthallertonOrmskirkRedcarRochdaleShrewsburySt HelensWorkington