Clothes retailer River Island will minimize an extra 110 roles and shut 33 shops below its restructuring plan.
That’s on prime of greater than 100 redundancies made in January this yr, bringing the whole to over 200 jobs misplaced.
It’s unclear which departments are affected thus far within the present spherical of layoffs, however the earlier spherical was felt throughout the shopping for, merchandising and HR departments.
In addition to job cuts, River Island secured Excessive Court docket approval to shut 33 UK shops and make hire cuts for an additional 71 within the restructuring plan.
This comes after the corporate has been experiencing extended monetary issue, which the retailer says stemmed from the affect of on-line procuring and low footfall on UK excessive streets, as reported by My London.
38 shops will see hire reductions of between 25 per cent and 75 per cent for 36 months, and switching to zero hire on one other 24. Simply 9 shops would require full hire.
A number of the shops going through hire cuts are based mostly in and round London, together with Bexleyheath, Bracknell, Park Home (Oxford Avenue), Thurrock, and Watford.
London-based shops Bromley, Walthamstow, and Wandsworth will see their rents minimize to zero.
Full record of River Island shops closing
We’ve damaged down each River Island retailer that’s closing as a part of the restructuring, bolding the 2 which can be based mostly in and round London.
- Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
- Bangor Bloomfield, Northern Eire
- Barnstaple, Devon
- Beckton, Larger London
- Brighton, East Sussex
- Burton-Upon-Trent, Derbyshire
- Cumbernauld, Scotland
- Didcot, Oxfordshire
- Edinburgh Princes Avenue, Scotland
- Falkirk, Scotland
- Gloucester, Gloucestershire
- Nice Yarmouth
- Grimsby, Lincolnshire
- Hanley, Staffordshire
- Hartlepool, County Durham
- Hereford, Herefordshire
- Kilmarnock, Scotland
- Kirkcaldy, Scotland
- Leeds Birstall Park, West Yorkshire
- Lisburn, Northern Eire
- Northwich, Cheshire
- Norwich, Norfolk
- Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Perth, Scotland
- Poole, Dorset
- Rochdale, Larger Manchester
- St Helens, Merseyside
- Stockton On Tees, County Durham
- Surrey Quays, Larger London
- Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire
- Taunton, Somerset
- Workington, Cumbria
- Wrexham, Wales
