Yahoo Finance Debenhams reveals closure date for another raft of stores
A number of Debenhams have already closed
(Getty Images)Department store chain Debenhams has confirmed a further 25 shops will permanently close in less than a fortnight.
The retailer is in the middle of a closing down sale after no rescue deal for the struggling business was secured last year.
Online fashion firm Boohoo in January acquired all of the intellectual property assets (including customer data and selected contracts) of Debenhams from its joint administrators, in a £55 million deal. But physical shops were not part of the purchase.
A winding down of the Debenhams shops was announced in December, however the national lockdown came in after, and ‘non essential’ retailers were only allowed to have customers back in stores from April 12.
In total 97 branches reopened in England and Wales on the day that the restrictions eased, as part of a final stock liquidation process.
Closure dates have already been given for a number of sites, such as in Hounslow, Ilford and Sutton.
Today a list of 25 stores that will shut in England and Wales on May 8 was provided.
These are the stores:
Blackpool
Bury St Edmunds
Crawley
Derby
Hemel Hempstead
Leeds City Centre
Lincoln
Luton
Middlesbrough
Northampton
Norwich
Nuneaton
Redditch
Scunthorpe
Southend-on-sea
Stevenage
Stockport
Sunderland
Telford
Torquay
Uxbridge
Wakefield
Westwood Cross
Wigan
Woking
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