British Home Stores closes down after 88 years

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London/ 29 August 2016. The British Home Stores branches closed their doors for the final time yesterday ending an 88-year presence on the High Street.

                                          
The St Enoch's Centre branch in Glasgow was the final Scottish store to close its doors after the company went into insolvency earlier this year, with 22 in total across the UK shutting up shop by the end of yesterday.

Administrators had already made 141 store closures over recent weeks.

The store at St Enoch Centre employed 50 people when news of the company’s collapse broke out, with 11,000 jobs across the UK lost when BHS went into administration.

The company was owned by billionaire Sir Philip Green up until last year when he sold the business for just one pound, with Green now promising to help sort out the pension’s blackhole at BHS.

British Homes Stores, a name that was a fixture on most UK High Streets, has disappeared nearly a century after first opening in Brixton, south London.