Major fashion retailer set to shut 35 stores across UK within days

Select Fashion has announced 35 of its stores will close by mid-March, with the affordable fashion brand set to dramatically reduce its physical presence in the UK by half.

A big UK fashion brand is set to shut 35 stores within days in a huge blow to high streets. Select Fashion has announced 35 of its stores will close by mid-March, with the affordable fashion brand set to dramatically reduce its physical presence in the UK by half.

Initially, 12 stores were facing the axe, in locations like Southshields, Peterlee, Thornaby, Hartlepool Scarborough Hull Hessle Hull, St Stephens, Ashington and Scunthorpe. But now the full list of locations where Select Fashion stores are closing has been revealed – revealing 35.

Experts say the cull is a significant one for Select Fashion, which will downsize its current trading portfolio by just under a half with these latest closures. It comes after the fashion brand fell into administration in 2019, with the retailer blaming tough economic conditions on the high street.

Select Fashion, owned by Turkish entrepreneur Cafer Mahiroğlu, was later bought out of administration by Genus UK Limited. The chain entered into a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) last summer, according to recent filings on Companies House.

Full list of 35 Select fashion stores set to shut

Accrington

Ashington

Ashton-under-Lyne

Birkenhead

Bletchley

Bristol Broadmead

Bristol Broadwalk Shopping Centre

Chippenham

Coalville

Cowley

Crewe

Eastleigh

Hartlepool

Hatfield

Hemel Hampstead

Hull Hessle

Hull St Stephen’s

Kidderminster

Merthyr Tydfil

Middlesbrough

Newport

Peterlee

Port Talbot

Preston

Runcorn

Scarborough

Scunthorpe

South Shields

Southampton

Thornby

Torquay

Wellingborough

Witham

Wolverhampton

Worksop

New documents seen by The Sun reveal just 48 Select stores will remain trading after the closures have taken place. At its peak, Select operated 169 stores before it went into administration.

One shopper wrote on social media: “It will be a shame to see you go as I have always been and got my clothes from your shop over the years. Worksop is going to be a ghost town.”