Select Fashion set to close its store on Rhyl's High Street
Select Fashion is offering a 'massive clearance' on its remaining stock, with up to 70 per cent off some of its items.
In the spring, it was reported that Select Fashion had entered liquidation and was due to close all of its remaining stores, with Michael Solomons and Andrew Pear of Moorfields appointed as joint liquidators.
Select, which is owned by Turkish entrepreneur Cafer Mahiroğlu, previously entered into administration in 2019.
It is the latest in number of closures in Rhyl's town centre, with Sports Direct set to shut in October, and noodle bar Chopstix having closed earlier in July.
Meanwhile, GB Games, Timpson and Blossom & Bloom are among those to have vacated their premises at the town's White Rose Shopping Centre so far this year.
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