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Beales pursues Robbs takeover, while The Range owner eyes other stores

Graham Soult May 31, 2010 Department Stores, Property 5 Comments

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Closing down sale at Robbs in Hexham (30 May 2010). Photograph by Graham Soult

Closing down sale at Robbs in Hexham (30 May 2010)

As the uncertainty over the future of the Vergo Retail store empire continues, potential suitors for some of the stores are starting to emerge. Here are the latest happenings…

In Liverpool’s Ranelagh Street, Lewis’s department store … Continue Reading

Lost in (Ethel) Austin?

Graham Soult February 05, 2010 Fashion Stores, Property 1 Comment

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Ethel Austin, Bishop Auckland. Photograph by Graham Soult

Ethel Austin, Bishop Auckland

Reports that value fashion retailer Ethel Austin and its sister homewares business, Au Naturale, are poised to enter administration – less than two years after both chains were rescued from previous administrations - is sad and disappointing news, as well as being quite surprising in its timing. 

True, there has been talk of an impending refinancing deal for … Continue Reading