The latest closures come on top of the 32 announced a few weeks ago and include locations such as Bolton, Salford, Skipton, Shrewsbury and Hull.
It comes as the retailer appointed administrators from Interpath on September 5, saying it had come under pressure from rising costs and a shortfall in funding, which also impacted supplier relationships and led to stock shortages.
Administrators said it was no longer viable to keep all the stores open due to stock shortages and operating costs.
At the time, Bodycare announced it was shutting 32 stores, resulting in around 450 redundancies.
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But now it has said the newest set of closures would be on Tuesday (September 16) and Thursday (September 18) this week.
The retailer has also confirmed 235 staff working at the stores will be made redundant when they close.
These are the 14 Bodycare locations shutting down on Tuesday:
- Bolton, Greater Manchester
- Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
- Castleford, West Yorkshire
- Chesterfield, Derbyshire
- Doncaster, South Yorkshire
- Greenock, Scotland
- Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
- Salford, Greater Manchester
- Skipton, North Yorkshire
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
- Thornaby, North Yorkshire
- Ulverston, Cumbria
- Whitehaven, Cumbria
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These are the 16 Bodycare stores closing on Thursday:
- Dudley, West Midlands
- Dunfermline, Scotland
- Hanley, Staffordshire
- Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
- Hyde, Greater Manchester
- Ilford, Greater London
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- Morpeth, Northumberland
- Newark, Nottinghamshire
- Northallerton, North Yorkshire
- Ormskirk, Lancashire
- Redcar, North Yorkshire
- Rochdale, Greater Manchester
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- St Helens, Merseyside
- Workington, Cumbria
A total of 85 stores will remain open while administrators pursue a possible buyer for the business.
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The company said it had received interest from a number of parties in relation to the stores.
Nick Holloway, managing director at Interpath and joint administrator, commented on Monday (September 15): “We’d like to express our sincere thanks to the hundreds of dedicated Bodycare staff who have shown such professionalism since our appointment.
“We will continue to trade the remaining 85 stores while we remain in discussions with interested parties with the aim of preserving as much of the business as possible.”
