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Pete wrote:Do any of the Arcadia concessions remain in BHS?

Meadowhall certainly has the signage for them still...

Walthamstow still has a Dorothy Perkins in it, despite the nearest store being two doors away in The Mall.

bizarrely in Southampton Dorothy Perkins and Burtons will be reopening in part of the old BHS unit! With Sports Direct moving to the remainder of the unit from West Quay!

Everything going okay with B&M?

The store in Stretford Mall (in a former Woolies unit) is closing down.

Neil DG wrote:Everything going okay with B&M?

The store in Stretford Mall (in a former Woolies unit) is closing down.

It could be that they're moving to a bigger unit nearby. I think Terry Leahy's trying to expand the furniture range into sofas, dining tables, etc, which the Woolies units are too small for. This is what happened in Macclesfield; they moved their existing store to the much larger unit left empty by TJ Hughes, which was a former Sainsbury's.

B&M are notoriously ruthless with landlords if they don't get their way. When they were refused permission to sell more food at Kingsway West retail park they just shut the shop and opened a replacement in the old virgin megastore in the city centre. They then rented the old B&Q at Kingsway East

Pete wrote:B&M are notoriously ruthless with landlords if they don't get their way. When they were refused permission to sell more food at Kingsway West retail park they just shut the shop and opened a replacement in the old virgin megastore in the city centre. They then rented the old B&Q at Kingsway East

Entirely true. At one point a good number of their leases were rent-free I believe.

Pete wrote:B&M are notoriously ruthless with landlords if they don't get their way. When they were refused permission to sell more food at Kingsway West retail park they just shut the shop and opened a replacement in the old virgin megastore in the city centre. They then rented the old B&Q at Kingsway East

Ah, and I believe the owners of Stretford Mall are notorious for not being reasonable about rent.

Discount shoe retailer Brantano has gone into administration, about four months after the chain was bought by an investment firm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35377799

Not a good investment then was it?

JAS84 wrote:Not a good investment then was it?

They'll be fine with it. Presumably they've stripped away some assets and made themselves a mint.