Struggling retailer Select has already closed 12 of the 35 stores it plans to shut by March 15 – with the remaining 23 set to follow suit by the end of this week
High street retailer Select Fashion is poised to shut 23 stores by the end of this weekend. The beleaguered fashion chain has already shuttered 12 outlets as part of a broader plan to close 35 locations in total by March 15.
This implies that the remaining 23 stores will cease operations by this weekend. Once these closures are completed, Select will be left with 48 stores.
It follows a miserable year for the high street so far, which has seen several big names close stores, let staff go or even go bust altogether. Over the past few years, the brand has been steadily closing sites, including branches in Ipswich, Kent, Cwmbran and the Erith Riverside Shopping Centre in London in 2024.
This follows Select’s fall into administration in 2019 and its subsequent entry into a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) last summer.
A CVA is an agreement between a company and its creditors that allows debts to be repaid over a set period, subject to approval by the creditors. Prior to its administration in 2019, Select boasted a total of 169 stores.
It was later rescued from administration by Genus UK Limited. Having first made its mark on the British fashion landscape in the 1980s, Select is currently under the ownership of Turkish entrepreneur Cafer Mahiroğlu, reports the Mirror.
The full list of stores closing is:
- Accrington
- Ashington
- Ashton-under-Lyne – ALREADY CLOSED
- Birkenhead
- Bletchley
- Bristol Broadmead
- Bristol Broadwalk Shopping Centre
- Chippenham – ALREADY CLOSED
- Coalville
- Cowley
- Crewe – ALREADY CLOSED
- Eastleigh
- Hartlepool
- Hatfield – ALREADY CLOSED
- Hemel Hampstead
- Hull Hessle
- Hull St Stephen’s
- Kidderminster – ALREADY CLOSED
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Middlesbrough
- Newport
- Peterlee
- Port Talbot
- Preston
- Runcorn
- Scarborough
- Scunthorpe
- South Shields
- Southampton – ALREADY CLOSED
- Thornaby – ALREADY CLOSED
- Torquay – ALREADY CLOSED
- Wellingborough – ALREADY CLOSED
- Witham – ALREADY CLOSED
- Wolverhampton – ALREADY CLOSED
- Worksop – ALREADY CLOSED
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