Full list of 56 UK beauty shops shutting this WEEK as chain disappears from high street

A POPULAR beauty brand is shutting all of it’s remaining 56 shops for good this week, in another blow to the high street.

The iconic brand, appointed administrators earlier this month, and immediately shut 32 stores.

A further 30 stores were closed a week later, and now Bodycare has confirmed its final 56 stores will close this week.

 The beauty store, which started as a market stall in Lancashire in the 1970s, has failed to attract a buyer, and a shortage of stock and high operating costs have made trading impossible.

All remaining Bodycare stores will shut their doors for the final time on September 27th.

A total of 444 staff will be made redundant due to the closures, with administrators from Interpath Advistory assuring they will help employees with claims to the Redundancy Payments Service.

Nick Holloway, managing director at Interpath and joint administrator, said: “We understand this has been a difficult period and so we want to further express our sincere thanks to Bodycare’s staff who, since day one of the administration, have maintained the strong standards of presentation and customer service that Bodycare was renowned for.”

He added: “We will continue to explore options for the company’s assets, including the Bodycare brand, and will provide further updates in due course.”

Bodycare was once a booming high street business, stocking popular brands such as Nivea and L’Oreal.

However, since the pandemic, the beauty brand has been struggling financially.

Bodycare spent months working with advisers from Interpath and its owners Baaj Capital in an attempt to save the business.

Baaj Capital recently obtained a £7million loan against the company’s stock to buy time, but efforts to stabilise the business failed.

More store closures

This comes as JD Sports closed 13 stores, after reporting a drop in sales over the last six months.

The high street retailer, which is known for selling branded footwear and sports clothes, said in its annual results today that it had closed a net total of 13 stores in the six months to August.

A total of 23 JD Sports stores in the UK shut in that time, while a further 10 were opened.

Its Dagenham branch, located in the Heathway Shopping Centre, also shut on September 6.

And yesterday, Amazon announced it is closing all 19 of it’s UK Fresh stores, just four years after they first launched.

Amazon has launched a consultation process proposing to shut all the stores, just four years after they first launched.

Amazon Fresh shops had been touted as offering customers a “new convenience grocery format”.

Rather than paying at tills, customers simply exit the shop and the “Just Walk Out” technology bills them automatically.

But plans for a bigger expansion with hundreds of stores had already been shelved after the concept didn’t prove as successful as hoped.