Bodycare to shut remaining stores with loss of 444 jobs

All remaining Bodycare shops are to close with the lack of 444 jobs after the well being and sweetness chain’s directors did not discover a purchaser for the retailers.The enterprise, which fell into administration earlier this month, was “not viable to proceed” buying and selling, its directors stated.Consequently, the chain’s remaining 56 shops will shut, with the all closures anticipated to happen by this Saturday.A spokesperson for the directors stated the corporate would “proceed to supply all assist to these impacted”.Nick Holloway, managing director at Interpath and joint administrator, stated they’d “proceed to discover choices for the corporate’s property, together with the Bodycare model, and can present additional updates sooner or later”.Greater than a thousand individuals have misplaced their jobs because the retailer collapsed on 5 September.Bodycare was based in Lancashire in 1970. Its retailer layouts have been identified for his or her brilliant lighting and window shows that always function piles of bathroom tissue or pyramids of washing up powder.It additionally supplied warehouse-style show cabinets filled with items reminiscent of lip balm, fragrance, false nails and foot cream.