Five Wilko stores are set to close in the South West after the retailer went into administration.
Administrators for the business have been trying to strike deals with potential buyers and yesterday (September 5) announced that B&M had agreed to buy up to 51 Wilko sores in a deal worth up to £13m.
On Wednesday (September 6), the administrators announced the locations of 52 shops that are set to close. In addition, there will be redundancies of 1,016 staff based at these sites, and a further 299 redundancies at the two distribution centres in Worksop and Newport.
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The five stores earmarked for closure in the region are in Falmouth, Weston-super-Mare, Avonmeads in Bristol, St Austell and Truro.
Falmouth and Weston-super-Mare will close on September 12, while Avonmeads, St Austell and Truro will cease to trade on September 14.
The business has around 400 stores and employed 12,500 people when it went under and the closures will take place on Tuesday, September 12, and Thursday, September 14.
Edward Williams, joint administrator, said: “In the absence of viable offers for the whole business, very sadly store closures and redundancies of team members from those stores are now necessary, in addition to the already announced redundancies at the support centre and distribution centres.
“We know this has been a deeply unsettling time for everyone concerned and would like to express our gratitude to all wilko team members for the dedication and support they have continued to give the business in the most trying of circumstances.”
The Wilko stores that are closingThe following Wilko shops will close on Tuesday September 12:
Acton
Aldershot
Barking
Bishop Auckland
Bletchley FF
Brownhills
Camberley
Cardiff Bay Retail Park
Falmouth
Harpurhey
Irvine
Liverpool Edge Lane
Llandudno
Lowestoft
Morley
Nelson
Port Talbot
Putney
Stafford
Tunbridge Wells
Wakefield
Weston-super-Mare
Westwood Cross
Winsford
The following Wilko shops will close on Thursday September 14:
Ashford
Avonmeads
Banbury
Barrow in Furness
Basildon
Belle Vale
Burnley (Relocation)
Clydebank
Cortonwood
Dagenham
Dewsbury
Eccles
Folkestone
Great Yarmouth
Hammersmith
Huddersfield
Morriston
New Malden
North Shields
Queen Street Cardiff
Rhyl
Southampton-West Quay
St Austell
Stockport
Truro
Uttoxeter
Walsall
Woking
The Burnley store will also close on Thursday November 14, as part of a relocation.
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