The Body Shop is set to close half of its stores and cut 300 Head Office jobs after administrators are appointed to oversee its future.
Thanks to squeezed incomes and overcrowding, the UK's high street is slowly declining leaving shoppers wondering which Wilko stores are closing down and asking questions about the plans for Boots store closures too. Following the additional closing of Iceland stores and Argos shops closing down, The Body Shop is the latest high street store drafting in FRP Advisory administrators – a national business advisory firm which specialises in providing solutions that many businesses face today, such as store closures debt recovery.
If you're wondering which Body Shop stores are closing, here's what we know so far...
Which Body Shop stores are closing and when?
- Ashford Town Centre, Kent
- Canary Wharf, London
- Cheapside, London
- Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- Oxford Street, London
- Queens Road, Bristol
- Surrey Quays, Greater London
The Body Shop has announced that the seven stores listed above are closing immediately, but more are expected to shut down in the coming months. It's also understood that almost half of its 198 stores in the UK could close for good and, following the latest administration announcement, The Body Shop at Home service (a scheme that sees consultants demonstrate new products from their ethically sourced and naturally-based ingredient range in customer's homes or among friends and communities via Body Shop parties) will also close on February 23, affecting thousands of people.
The chain of bath, shower and beauty products was founded by Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon in Brighton in 1976. It currently employs 2,000 people in the UK and FRP Advisory said that by placing the firm into the hands of administrators, it “provides the stability, flexibility and security to find the best means of securing the future” of the chain. In a statement, the UK and FRP Advisory said: “The joint administrators will now consider all options to find a way forward for the business and will update creditors and employees in due course.”
All The Body Shop stores in the UK
- 374 Oxford Street, London
- 66 Oxford Street, London
- Ashford
- Ashford Outlet
- Aylesbury
- Banbury
- Barnstaple
- Basildon
- Basilton
- Basingstoke
- Bath
- Battersea
- Bedford
- Beverley
- Bexleyheath
- Birmingham Bullring
- Birmingham New Street
- Blackburn
- Blackpool
- Bluewater
- Bluewater, Greenhithe
- Bolton Market Place
- Bournemouth Commercial Road
- Bracknell Lexicon
- Bradford Broadway
- Braintree Outlet
- Brent Cross Shopping Centre
- Bridgend Outet
- Brighton
- Bristol Cabot Circus
- Bristol Queens Road
- Brixton
- Broughton Park
- Bury
- Bury St Edmunds
- Caledonia Park Outlet
- Camarthen
- Camberley
- Cambridge
- Cambridge Station
- Cannock Outlet
- Cardiff St Davids
- Carlisle
- Carmarthen
- Castleford Outlet
- Chelmsford
- Cheltenham
- Cheshire Oaks Outlet
- Chester Foregate Street
- Chesterfield
- Chichester
- Chippenham
- Cirencester
- Clarks Village Outlet, Somerset
- Colchester
- Commercial Arcade, St Peter Port, Gurnsey
- Coventry
- Crawley County Mall
- Cribbs Causeway
- Dalton Park Outlet, Seaham
- Derby Intu
- Didcot
- Doncaster Lakeside Outlet
- Dudley
- Dundee
- Dunfermline
- Durham
- Ealing
- East Kilbride
- East Midlands Outlet
- Eastbourne
- Edinburgh Gyle
- Edinburgh St James Quarter
- Edinburgh Waverley Market
- Enfield
- Epsom
- Exeter
- Fareham
- Farnborough
- Fleetwood Outlet
- Foyleside, Derry
- Glasgow Braehead
- Glasgow Fort
- Glasgow Silverburn
- Glasgow St Enoch
- Glasgow Station
- Gloucester
- Grimsby
- Guildford High Street
- Gunwharf Outlet, Portsmouth
- Halifax
- Harlow
- Harrogate
- Harrow
- Hastings
- Hatfield Outlet
- Hempstead Valley
- Hereford Commercial Street
- High Wycombe
- Horsham
- Hounslow Treaty Centre
- Hove
- Hull
- Huddersfield
- Ilford
- Isle of Wight
- Islington
- Kendal
- Kings Lynn
- Kings Street, St Helier, Jersey
- Kingston-Upon-Thames
- Lancaster
- Leamington Spa
- Leeds Briggate
- Leeds White Rose
- Leicester High Cross
- Lichfield
- Lincoln Waterside
- Liverpool One
- Liverpool Street Station
- Livingston Outlet
- London Bridge
- Loughborough
- Luton
- Macclesfield
- Maidstone
- Manchester Arndale
- Manchester Royal Exchange
- Meadowhall High Street
- MediaCity UK, Manchester
- Middlesborough
- Milton Keynes
- Morpeth
- Newcastle Eldon Square
- Newton Abbott
- Northampton
- Norwich
- Nottingham Bridlesmith Gate
- Nuneaton
- Oldham
- One New Change Shopping Centre, London
- Oxford Westgate
- Perth
- Peterborough Queensgate
- Petty Curry, Cambridge
- Platinum Mall, Gateshead
- Plymouth
- Poole
- Portsmouth
- Preson
- Preston
- Reading
- Regent Street, London
- Romford
- Rushen Lakes
- Sailsbury
- Sheffield
- Shrewsbury
- Solihull
- Southampton
- Southend
- Spalding Outlet
- St Albans
- Stafford
- Staines
- Standstead Airside
- Stockport
- Stratford Upon Avon
- Sunderland
- Surrey Quays Shopping Centre
- Sutton
- Swansea
- Swindon Outlet
- Talke Hanley Outlet, Stoke-on-rent
- Taunton
- Telford
- Thurrock
- Trafford Park
- Trowbridge
- Truro
- Tunbridge Wells
- Uxbridge Market Square
- Victoria Square Shopping Centre, Belfast
- Wakefield Trinity Walk
- Walthamstow
- Warrington
- Watford
- Wembley Outlet
- Whiteley Village Shopping Centre, Fareham
- Wigan
- Wimbledon
- Winchester
- Windsor
- Woking
- Wolverhampton
- Worcester
- Worthing
- York Coppergate
- York Outlet
In other family news, it's not all doom and gloom, Wilko stores reopening: The full list of shops returning to the high street and which Shoezone stores are closing down? Full list and update.
