Cliff Notes
- Bodycare is set to close its remaining 56 stores, resulting in 444 job losses, as confirmed by administrators.
- The chain’s collapse into administration has led to approximately 150 store closures and over 1,000 total job losses since the process began.
- Founded over 50 years ago from a market stall, Bodycare specialised in beauty products but faced unsustainable operational costs and stock shortages.
High street chain to close all its stores – with hundreds of redundancies
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High Street beauty chain Bodycare is to close its 56 remaining stores, resulting in 444 redundancies, administrators have said.
Last week, it announced the closure of 30 shops, having collapsed into administration earlier this month.
A shortage of stock and the cost of running stores meant it was no longer viable to keep its 115 stores open, administrators said at the time.
Since the appointment of administrators, roughly 150 shops have been shut, and more than 1,000 have lost their jobs.
Bodycare specialised in selling fragrances, toiletries, cosmetics and skincare products and was founded on a Lancashire market stall more than half a century ago.
It employed about 1,500 people.
The news follows Sky News reporting that Bodycare was seeking a buyer in an attempt to avert its collapse.
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