Overview

• ‘Closing down’ signs with at least 20% off have appeared at the Hereford store, even though a Press Association list of 32 closures did not include that branch.
• Swindon’s Regent Street shop is among locations set to shut, with the website having gone offline earlier as uncertainty grew over the business.
• Joint administrators Nick Holloway, Chris Pole, and Michael Leeds of Interpath Advisory were appointed on September 5 and are managing the company’s affairs.
• Shoppers in Kendal and Swindon voiced concern about further gaps on high streets as local Bodycare stores displayed ‘store closing’ posters.
• Bodycare, founded in 1970 and operating about 147 UK stores with roughly 1,500 employees, cited rising costs, a delayed online transition, and cost-of-living pressures for its collapse.