The struggling high street retailer has already closed 12 stores, as part of wider plans to shut 35 sites in total by March 15 – this means the remaining 23 stores will close by this weekend
Select Fashion is set to close 23 high street stores by this weekend.
The struggling high street retailer has already closed 12 stores, as part of wider plans to shut 35 sites in total by March 15. This means the remaining 23 stores will close by this weekend. Select will have 48 stores left once these latest closures have taken place. The fashion chain has been closing sites over the past few years, including branches in Ipswich, Kent, Cwmbran and the Erith Riverside Shopping in London in 2024.
It comes after Select collapsed into administration in 2019 and entered into a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) last summer. This is an agreement between a business and its creditors, which allows debts to be paid off over a fixed period of time. The creditors need to approve the CVA first before it can be implemented.
Before its administration in 2019, the fashion chain had a total of 169 stores. It was later bought out of administration by Genus UK Limited. Select first entered the British fashion scene in the 1980s and is currently owned by Turkish entrepreneur Cafer Mahiroğlu. But the fashion chain isn’t the only retailer to have announced store closures in recent months.
Yours Clothing is pulling down the shutters on its branch in the Birmingham Bullring shopping centre on March 15. The next nearest store is located around 7.6 miles away in West Bromwich, or there is the Merry Hill branch which is 13.5 miles away. A notice in the store reads: “Sorry, we’re closing down. Our last day is Saturday 15th March. Your nearest stores are West Bromwich and Merry Hill but we’re always open at yoursclothing.co.uk.”
Homebase collapsed into administration in November 2024, with retail group CDS, owner of The Range, later agreeing a deal to snap up around 70 stores. Some stores were also taken over by Sainsbury’s and B&Q, but others have sadly closed for good. Most recently, Homebase announced it was closing 33 in February. Meanwhile, gardening chain Dobbies announced more store closures in February, taking the total number of stores it has closed since last October to 24.
Select store closures
- 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
