The high street beauty retailer collapsed into administration earlier this month and has not been able to secure a buyer for its chain of stores in the UK
All remaining Bodycare shops will shut this week, after the beauty chain’s administrators failed to secure a buyer to keep it on Britain’s high streets. Bodycare will disappear from Britain’s high streets including its Walthamstow branch, after administrators announced the closure of its remaining 56 shops, resulting in around 450 redundancies.
The high street beauty retailer collapsed into administration earlier this month and has not been able to secure a buyer for its chain of stores in the UK. Administrators at advisory firm Interpath said this meant it had made the difficult decision to close them down.
Bodycare was founded in 1970 in Lancashire and sold beauty products, fragrances and other bathroom items. Its stores were based in shopping centres and high streets in towns and cities across the UK.
The final round of closures is expected to happen by Saturday, and will result in all 444 employees working across the shops being made redundant. It means about 150 shops will have been shut since it went into administration, with more than 1,000 staff losing their jobs.
The final round of closures is expected to happen by Saturday, resulting in 444 job losses. These are the locations of the 56 Bodycare stores that will close this week:
- Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester
- Banbury, Oxfordshire
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire
- Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
- Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Blackburn, Lancashire
- Blackpool, Lancashire
- Braehead, Scotland
- Bridgnorth, Shropshire
- Burnley, Lancashire
- Bury, Greater Manchester
- Chorley, Lancashire
- Clitheroe, Lancashire
- Darlington, Co Durham
- Derby, Derbyshire
- Dundee, Scotland
- Halifax, West Yorkshire
- Hereford, Herefordshire
- Hinckley, Leicestershire
- Irvine, Scotland
- Keighley, West Yorkshire
- Kendal, Cumbria
- Kings Heath, West Midlands
- Lancaster, Lancashire
- Leeds, West Yorkshire
- Leicester, Leicestershire
- Leigh, Greater Manchester
- Liverpool, Merseyside
- Livingston, Scotland
- Luton, Bedfordshire
- Manchester, Greater Manchester
- Merry Hill, West Midlands
- Metrocentre, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
- Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire
- Mold, Wales
- Newcastle, Tyne and Wear
- Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- Oldham, Greater Manchester
- Pontefract, West Yorkshire
- Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire
- Preston, Lancashire
- Rugby, Warwickshire
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire
- Solihull, West Midlands
- Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
- Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
- Swindon, Wiltshire
- Telford, Shropshire
- Thurrock, Essex
- Trowbridge, Wiltshire
- Wakefield, West Yorkshire
- Walthamstow, North East London
- Warrington, Cheshire
- Washington, Tyne and Wear
- Wellingborough, Northamptonshire
- Wolverhampton, West Midlands
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