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  • Bodycare: Creditors to lose millions after retailer’s collapse

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    Bodycare owed more than £30m when it collapsed into administration with the loss of around 1,400 jobs, it has been revealed. The high street health and beauty retailer fell over in September with an initial 32 stores closed and around 450 employees being made redundant. That move was followed a few days later when it [...]

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  • Bodycare: Full list of stores to close as 450 jobs lost

    Retail

    High street health and beauty retailer Bodycare has collapsed into administration with the loss of 32 stores and around 450 jobs being made redundant. Nick Holloway, Chris Pole and Mike Leeds from Interpath have been appointed joint administrators to G.R. & M.M. Blackledge plc, which trades as Bodycare. Founded in 1970 on a market stall [...]

    Bodycare started out as a single store in Lancashire. Credit - Getty
  • Bodycare: Reeves creating ‘too much risk and uncertainty’ for us to expand

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    Bodycare has slowed down the pace of opening new stores across the UK as it blamed the government for creating “too much risk and uncertainty”. The Lancashire-headquartered retailer added that “the current climate of increased costs and legislation” is impacting its growth plans. Bodycare has also said that government policy on the winter fuel allowance [...]

    Rachel Reeves' decisions have been criticised by Bodycare. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
  • Bodycare edges toward the black as it reveals huge expansion plans

    June 24, 2024

    Toiletries retailer Bodycare has revealed plans to open 40 new stores in the south of England as it edged closer to returning to the black during its latest financial year, according to new documents.

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