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Email required Address never made public. Name required. In August , the Canterbury branch opened Wallis and Evans concessions within the store. In , BHS changed its logo, resurrecting the uppercase form of the abbreviation that had not been used since the Storehouse rebrand and the later rebrand in the s. A new e-commerce website was launched, and a new store design that has gradually been introduced across the estate.
In January , Green confirmed that he was considering selling the company following sustained losses, and that he had received a number of approaches. A branch with post branding seen in Lincoln in A programme of modernising stores with the new branding was announced, while plans to roll out food halls were to continue.
By early , periodic store closures had seen the company withdraw entirely from several city centres, including Bath, [30] Cardiff, Carlisle, [31] Oxford, [30] Reading [32] and Southampton. In March , the company sought a company voluntary arrangement CVA to allow it to restructure the business. On 24 April , Dominic Chappell owner of Retail Acquisitions , announced that administrators would be appointed the next day. However the talks to buy the company have since failed resulting in the subsequent closure of BHS stores.
Head office staff were made redundant straight away from the announcement that no buyer had been found, with stores expected to last up to 8 weeks selling the remaining stock. Template:Fix On 23 July , the administrators Duff and Phelps shut down 20 stores, and the next week another The insolvent part of the company finally went into liquidation on 2 December , with the remainder of winding up proceedings commencing on that date.
The Qatari Al Mana Group purchased the company's international franchise stores and online operations in June It launched a new website, bhs. Within its stores, BHS primarily sold clothing and household items. In recent years, the company had begun to expand into furniture, electronics, entertainment, convenience groceries and, most recently, fragrance and beauty products. In December , New Zealand-based childrenswear brand Pumpkin Patch was introduced into larger stores and online.
With the takeover of a number of Allders stores in , BHS began to open stores using the company's original name of British Home Stores. These stores sold a full range of BHS homeware products, accompanied by a new furniture business. A branch in Chichester was the first of the former Allders sites to be refurbished, and by the success of the Home Stores rollout was extended to the larger high street stores, such as those in Bromley, the Metro Centre, Watford and the Merry Hill Centre in the West Midlands.
By October , the success of the Home Stores format had rolled out to 16 dedicated Home Stores and by , the company had launched its independent furniture website bhsfurniture. The stores and website now sell a number of leading brands including Italsofa , G-Plan , Relyon and Silentnight. Larger homes stores, such as the one at Barton Square branch in the Trafford Centre, Greater Manchester also sell the Welle cabinet range and have Sharps showrooms.
In its stores, BHS sold a mixture of basic electricals based primarily on kitchen products such as kettles and toasters. Recently this range has begun to increase, particularly in the designated Home stores and larger high street branches. The service is run through a third party company Buy it Direct and is not directly controlled by BHS. In January , it was announced that the chain would sell branded food products, the service to be trialed in 50 stores with the intention of making this a permanent addition in up to stores.
It was primarily known for clothing and home furnishings, but also sold electronics, entertainment and beauty products. It was founded in by a group of American entrepreneurs.
After a series of loss-making years, BHS tumbled into administration in Building Our Past. Skip to content. Whitefriargate, Hull. Whitefriargate, Hull, Former BHS, Nottingham. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Bookmark the permalink.
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