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Peacocks

January 2021

  • The Edinburgh Woollen Mill shop in Shrewsbury advertising its closing-down sale in December.

    Edinburgh Woollen Mill rescue deal saves 2,500 jobs and 300 stores

    Purepay acquires all of chains’ remaining stock, head office site and distribution centre in Carlisle

November 2020

  • A woman wearing a face covering walks past a Peacocks store in Cardiff last month.

    Peacocks and Jaeger businesses collapse into administration

  • Edinburgh Woollen Mill with signs saying "closing down sale"

    Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home enter administration with loss of 860 jobs

October 2020

  • Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, the owner of Jaeger, Peacocks and Austin Reed

    Up to 21,500 jobs at risk as Jaeger and Austin Reed owner prepares to appoint administrators

    Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, which also owns Peacocks, blames the ‘harsh trading conditions’ from Covid-19 pandemic

May 2020

  • Bangladesh Garments and Manufacturing Association claims Philip Day’s firm and agents are taking ‘undue advantage of the Covid-19 situation’.

    Bangladesh clothing makers say Philip Day owes them £27m

    Manufacturers say they will halt production unless Edinburgh Woollen Mill pays up

December 2019

  • Consumers make their Christmas shopping at Regent Street, London.

    Retailers slash prices in hope of bumper Super Saturday

    Move comes after lacklustre sales as shoppers hold out for last-minute bargains

November 2019

  • The administrators hope to complete a deal before Christmas that would reunite Bonmarché with its former sister chain Peacocks.

    Peacocks chain set to rescue Bonmarché from collapse

    At least 30 Bonmarché stores to close with loss of 240 jobs

December 2014

  • Jane Norman, Oxford Street, London

    Edinburgh Woollen Mill to open 100 new stores after profit rise

    Group, which owns Jane Norman and Peacocks, experiences £71m increase despite fall in sales

December 2012

  • Retailers Hope For A Good Christmas Despite The Current Economic Gloom

    Observer business agenda
    Miners, investors and retailers hope for a seasonal windfall

    Business agenda: As ENRC looks for shareholder approval under the tree and the City hopes for a Santa rally, the rent collector comes calling

November 2012

  • JJB Sports

    UK retailers in administration: timeline

    Comet is the latest in a series of chilling failings to come out of Britain's retail sector this year

October 2012

  • Closed shop in Rotherham

    More than 30 chain stores closing a day

    Extent of high street woe revealed as falling disposable incomes and online shopping take their toll on over-extended retailers

May 2012

  • Market Forces blog
    British Land suffers from closure of Clinton Cards but London office rents continue to rise

    City rents up 2.5% as company's portfolio rises to £15.8bn
    Around 1% of British Land's retail space now with administrators after Clinton's collapse

February 2012

  • British entrepreneur Philip Day

    Knight in a comfy cardie who rescued Peacocks shows he has style

    Philip Day, the private owner of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, rescued more than half of the fashion chain from collapse
  • Peacocks

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Peacocks piqued by PIKs

    Peacocks' total debts at the point of administration last month are thought to have been about £750m, of which the PIKs may be roughly £400m
    • Peacocks sold to Edinburgh Woollen Mill

    • Peacocks staff face more uncertainty as interest in salvaging firm dwindles

    • Peacocks takeover takes new turn as Edinburgh Woollen Mill quits talks

January 2012

  • A Peacocks clothing store

    Bonmarché sale and store closures will cost 1,400 jobs

    Womenswear chain of collapsed retailer Peacocks Group has been sold in a pre-pack administration that will lead to 1,400 job losses
  • Peacocks stores

    Peacocks collapse rocks retailers as creditors blame each other

    After demise of Peacocks, ailing retailers, HMV and Thomas Cook could get a knock from lender Royal Bank of Scotland
  • Peacocks head office in Cardiff

    Peacocks' plight ruffles feathers in Wales

    Staff, shoppers and politicians alike fear for Welsh jobs after Cardiff-based retailer's collapse into administration
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