Overview

• Closing-down signage has appeared at Middlesbrough’s Hillstreet and Bolton’s Market Place branches despite neither being on the initial list of 32 closures.
• Interpath was appointed joint administrator on September 5, immediately shutting 32 stores with about 450 job losses while keeping around 115 outlets open.
• The administrators say remaining stores are trading to realise stock as they assess a potential sale of the business or its assets.
• Bodycare operated about 147 stores and employed roughly 1,500 people before entering administration.
• A local report in Oxfordshire claims a rescue sale collapsed and that all remaining stores will close, a point not confirmed by the administrators.