A high-street retailer is set to close a number of its stores across Britain after narrowly avoiding collapse.
Poundland received court approval for a major restructuring plan on Tuesday after the company told a judge that the plan would save it from entering administration.
Had the scheme had not been sanctioned, the company would have run out of money by September 7, barristers told the court.
In June, the discount retail chain said it planned to permanently shut 68 shops after being sold by Pepco Group to Peach Bidco, a subsidiary of private equity firm Gordon Brothers, for £1.
Poundland said it will shut down a total of 16 more stores but has not yet identified their locations.
It is understood that the closure dates for these are likely to be announced later in the year, when store workers will be informed.
These are the stores set to close on Sunday, August 31:
- Blackburn, Lancashire
- Cookstown, Northern Ireland
- Erdington, West Midlands
- Kimberley Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Horsham, West Sussex
- Hull Kingston retail park, East Yorkshire
- Kettering, Northamptonshire
- Omagh, Northern Ireland
- Shepherd’s Bush, Greater London
- Southport, Merseyside
- Taunton, Somerset
This store will shut on September 14:
- Irvine, Scotland
The following stores have already closed:
- Ammanford, Wales
- Birmingham Fort Shopping Park, West Midlands
- Cardiff, Wales
- Cramlington, Northumberland
- Leicester, Leicestershire
- Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire
- Port Glasgow, Scotland
- Seaham, County Durham
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- Tunbridge Wells, Kent
- Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Bidston Moss, Merseyside
- Broxburn, Scotland
- Craigavon, Northern Ireland
- Dartmouth, Devon
- East Dulwich, Greater London
- Falmouth, Cornwall
- Hull St Andrew retail park, East Yorkshire
- Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
- Perth, Scotland
- Poole, Dorset
- Sunderland Pallion retail park, Tyne and Wear
- Stafford, Staffordshire
- Thornaby, North Yorkshire
- Worcester, Worcestershire
- Brigg, North Lincolnshire
- Canterbury, Kent
- Coventry Hertford Street, West Midlands
- Newcastle Killingworth Centre, Tyne and Wear
- Kings Heath, West Midlands
- Peterborough Orton Gate shopping centre, Cambridgeshire
- Peterlee, County Durham
- Rainham, Kent
- Salford, Greater Manchester
- Sheldon, West Midlands
- Wells, Somerset
- Whitechapel, Greater London
- Swiss Cottage, Greater London
- Southampton West Quay, Hampshire
- Chiswick, Greater London
