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Poundland to shut 11 extra shops this week – is yours on the listing?

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A Poundland shop front on a high street.
Poundland is going through operating out of cash inside days if its rescue plan just isn’t accredited (Image: PA Wire)

Poundland is ready to axe extra shops inside days following a wave of closures already this month.

The beleaguered low cost chain has been shutting up store on dozens of excessive streets throughout the UK.

To date in August, 38 shops have closed for good up and down the nation.

Poundland’s new proprietor, funding agency Gordon Brothers, desires to chop the variety of shops from round 800 to 650 inside months in a bid to keep away from the retailer collapsing into administration.

The retailer may run out of cash by September 7 if its restructuring plan just isn’t accredited, the retailer’s attorneys informed a Excessive Courtroom listening to right this moment.

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Poundland shops have already closed in Birmingham, Leicester, Tunbridge Wells, Bedford and Whitechapel in London to attempt to save the struggling model.

Additional closures are looming for 11 extra shops by the tip of this week.

Here’s a map exhibiting all of the areas the place Poundland retailers have already shut, and the upcoming closures.

Alongside closures, Gordon Brothers desires to ditch frozen meals and the variety of chilled gadgets offered.

It’ll additionally cease on-line gross sales and focus as a substitute on ladies’s garments and seasonal ranges in-store in a bid to chop prices.

Poundland employs round 15,000 individuals within the UK and Eire, however the modifications have put round 1,000 jobs in danger.

Darren MacDonald, Poundland’s retail director, mentioned: ‘It’s, in fact, sincerely regrettable that our restoration plans embody any retailer closures, however sadly that’s mandatory if we’re to attain our aim of securing the way forward for 1000’s of jobs and tons of of shops.

‘Whereas our anticipated community of round 650-700 shops stays a sizeable one, we solely perceive how disappointing will probably be for purchasers when one close by, closes.

Checklist of extra Poundland closures

These branches are closing for good on Sunday, August 31:

  • Blackburn
  • Cookstown
  • Erdington
  • Kimberley Procuring Centre, Nottingham
  • Horsham
  • Hull Holderness
  • Kettering
  • Omagh
  • Shepherds Bush
  • Southport
  • Taunton

Listed below are the shops which are set to shut later this autumn.

  • Whitby – September 3
  • Wealdstone – September 6
  • Pontypool – September 7
  • Inverclyde – to be introduced

‘Nonetheless, we stay up for persevering with to welcome them to a close-by Poundland.

‘It goes with out saying that we are going to work intently with colleagues by a proper session course of in shops scheduled to shut, exploring any appropriate different roles. That work is underway.’

Tom Smith KC, for Poundland Restricted, mentioned the corporate’s monetary place had ‘considerably deteriorated over the last two years’ and that it had ‘carried out poorly in a troublesome retail and financial surroundings.’

An additional money injection of £60 million on prime of the earlier £30 million may save the retailer from collapse, he mentioned.

The Darton, South Yorkshire, distribution centre can also be set to shut later this yr, whereas the nationwide distribution centre in Bilston, West Midlands, is anticipated to shut early subsequent yr.

Poundland isle with £1 sign.
Poundland’s house owners need to give attention to ladies’s garments and seasonal merchandise sooner or later (Image: Reuters)

Poundland rose to its success by promoting gadgets for £1 at a market stall within the early Nineties, changing into a treasure trove for cut price hunters in search of offers.

Quickly after being listed on the London Inventory Alternate in 2014, the enterprise was purchased by the Polish agency Pepco Group for round £610 million.

Regardless of its upward trajectory after the coronavirus pandemic and new retailer openings, Poundland’s house owners reported losses of about £572 million.

It was offered for £1 to Gordon Brothers this summer season, resulting in the numerous reshaping of Poundland’s presence in British cities.

Throughout the UK, excessive road clients face an exodus of companies, together with banks.

Figures from final December present that greater than 6,200 financial institution branches have shut since January 2015, that means a median of 53 every month.

Santander, NatWest, Halifax and Lloyds have introduced tons of of closures this summer season alone, with extra within the pipeline in coming months.

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