The closures will be on Tuesday and Thursday
Bodycare has announced the closure of another 30 shops after the high street beauty chain collapsed into administration earlier this month. The British retailer said the latest set of closures would be on Tuesday and Thursday this week.
A shortage of stock and the cost of running high street shops has meant it is no longer viable to keep all the remaining 115 stores open, administrators said. All staff will be made redundant when the stores close this week, although the number of job losses was not immediately specified.
The latest closures will leave the chain with 85 remaining shops.
Bodycare appointed administrators from Interpath on September 5, saying it had come under pressure from rising costs and a shortfall in funding, which also impacted supplier relationships and led to stock shortages.
At the time, it announced it was shutting 32 stores, resulting in around 450 redundancies.
Nick Holloway, managing director at Interpath and joint administrator, said on Monday: “We’d like to express our sincere thanks to the hundreds of dedicated Bodycare staff who have shown such professionalism since our appointment.
“We will continue to trade the remaining 85 stores while we remain in discussions with interested parties with the aim of preserving as much of the business as possible.”
Interpath is currently pursuing a potential rescue sale of the business and assets.
The company said it had received interest from a number of parties in relation to the stores.
Bodycare was founded in 1970 in Lancashire and sells beauty products, as well as fragrances and other bathroom items.
These are the locations of Bodycare stores closing on Tuesday:
Bolton, Greater Manchester
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Castleford, West Yorkshire
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Greenock, Scotland
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Salford, Greater Manchester
Skipton, North Yorkshire
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
Thornaby, North Yorkshire
Ulverston, Cumbria
Whitehaven, Cumbria
These are the locations of Bodycare stores closing on Thursday:
Dudley, West Midlands
Dunfermline, Scotland
Hanley, Staffordshire
Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
Hyde, Greater Manchester
Ilford, Greater London
Ipswich, Suffolk
Morpeth, Northumberland
Newark, Nottinghamshire
Northallerton, North Yorkshire
Ormskirk, Lancashire
Redcar, North Yorkshire
Rochdale, Greater Manchester
Shrewsbury, Shropshire
St Helens, Merseyside
Workington, Cumbria
