Wilko reveals dates for final store closures following collapse

The hardware and furnishings retailer fell into administration last month (Ben Birchall/PA)
The {hardware} and furnishings retailer fell into administration final month (Ben Birchall/PA) / PA Wire

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ilko is to close the doorways of its final remaining shops on Sunday October 8 because the collapse of the historic retailer involves a detailed.

The {hardware} and furnishings retailer tumbled into administration final month after it got here underneath stress from weak client spending and money owed to suppliers.

The retailer will shut its closing 111 shops in early October as a part of the ultimate part of closures, directors for PwC mentioned.

The Wilko model is not going to disappear completely from the UK excessive road after The Vary agreed to purchase Wilko’s model, web site and mental property, with plans to promote the acquired model in its shops.

Wilko was initially based by James Kemsey Wilkinson in Leicester in 1930 and employed 12,500 staff earlier than its collapse.

– The next shops will shut on Tuesday October 3:

Hounslow, Better LondonSt Albans, HertfordshireDunstable, BedfordshireWeston Favell, NorthamptonBristolLancaster, LancashireLeeds Trinity, West YorkshireReading, BerkshirePoole, DorsetLincoln, LincolnshireHalifax, West YorkshireWashington, Newcastle upon TyneHitchin, HertfordshireChatham, KentSouthend, EssexMetro Centre, Gateshead, Tyne and WearEpsom, SurreyCannon Park, Coventry, WarwickshireNorwich, NorfolkPreston, LancashireCanterbury, KentKingston Upon Thames, SurreyCarlisle, CumbriaBarnsley, South YorkshireKingswood, BristolColchester, EssexIlford, Better LondonMaidstone, KentHuntingdon, Cambridgeshire

– The next shops will shut on Thursday October 5:

Bishop Stortford, HertfordshireTottenham Hale, Better LondonWorthing, West SussexRomford, Better LondonSelly Oak, BirminghamWembley, LondonBirstall, West YorkshireUxbridge, Better LondonBurton, StaffordshireLee Circle, Leicester, LeicestershireWest Ealing, LondonBlackburn, LancasterBexleyheath, Better LondonThe Beacon Eastbourne, East SussexWeymouth, DorsetNewcastle-under-Lyme, StaffordshireBeaumont Leys, Leicester, LeicestershireHinckley, LeicestershireLivingston, ScotlandChelmsford, EssexRiverside Purchasing Centre, Northampton, East MidlandsSittingbourne, KentStourbridge, West MidlandsManchester, Better ManchesterHamilton, South LanarkshireDeepdale, Preston, LancashireBasingstoke, HampshireClifton Moor, York, North YorkshireBurgess Hill, West SussexCastle Douglas, Dumfries and GallowayHarrow, LondonTooting, LondonTelford, ShropshireIpswich, SuffolkSt James Retail Park, Sheffield, South YorkshireNottingham, MidlandsCheltenham, GloucestershireBulwell, NottinghamshireAbergavenny, MonmouthshireFrenchgate Purchasing Centre, Doncaster, South YorkshireClifton, Bristol

– The next shops will shut on Sunday October 8:

Neath, Neath Port TalbotBromley, LondonCarmarthen, CarmarthenshireCardiff, South GlamorganSelby, North YorkshireArnold, NottinghamshirePortsmouth, HampshireOswestry, ShropshireChester, CheshireHucknall, NottinghamshireAyr, South AyrshireWidnes, CheshireHorsham, West SussexBirkenhead, MerseysideKingston Centre, Milton Keynes, BuckinghamshireParkgate, Rotherham, South YorkshirePerry Barr, Birmingham, West MidlandsCastleford, West YorkshirePorthmadog, CaernarfonshireBrighouse, West YorkshireChelmsley Wooden, West MidlandsSwansea, WalesSunderland, Tyne and WearMiddlesbrough, North YorkshireSilverlink, Newcastle, Tyne and WearChesterfield, DerbyshireSutton, SurreyDerby, DerbyshireScarborough, North YorkshireCrystal Peaks, Sheffield, South YorkshirePlymouth, DevonEly, CambridgeshireLoughborough, LeicestershireLiverpool, MerseysideStratford, LondonNewcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and WearCoventry, West MidlandsSheffield, South YorkshireExeter, DevonLuton, BedfordshireWood Inexperienced, London