4 days ago
- Business
- Belfast Telegraph
River Island set to close 33 stores – including two in Northern Ireland
Press Association
River Island is set to push ahead with plans to shut 33 shops – including two in Northern Ireland – after receiving court approval for a major restructuring.
The retailer's branches in Bangor's Lesley Bloomfield Shopping Centre and in Lisburn are set to be impacted.
A high court judge approved the high street fashion chain's restructuring plan on Friday, amid fears that the company could collapse into administration without the overhaul.
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It will also secure reduced rents on 71 other stores as part of the plan.
Lawyers for River Island told the court that the company 'simply has not been able to reverse' a trend of financial difficulty.
Here is the list of locations where the group will now shut shops:
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Bangor Bloomfield, Northern Ireland
Barnstaple, Devon
Beckton, Greater London
Brighton, East Sussex
Burton-Upon-Trent, Derbyshire
Cumbernauld, Scotland
Didcot, Oxfordshire
Edinburgh Princes Street, Scotland
Falkirk, Scotland
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Great Yarmouth
Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Hanley, Staffordshire
Hartlepool, County Durham
Hereford, Herefordshire
Kilmarnock, Scotland
Kirkcaldy, Scotland
Leeds Birstall Park, West Yorkshire
Lisburn, Northern Ireland
Northwich, Cheshire
Norwich, Norfolk
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Perth, Scotland
Poole, Dorset
Rochdale, Greater Manchester
St Helens, Merseyside
Stockton On Tees, County Durham
Surrey Quays, Greater London
Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire
Taunton, Somerset
Workington, Cumbria
Wrexham, Wales