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Wilko

March 2024

  • Man walks past closed Wilko store.

    Nearly 5,000 UK chain stores closed last year at rate of 14 a day

    Pharmacies, banks and pubs retreat from town and city centres knocked by failure of Wilko last year

30 November 2023

  • A Wilko store advertising an administration sale

    Wilko collapse: regulators urged to try to claw back millions in dividends

    Commons committee says money should be recovered from founding family ‘so pensioners are not short-changed’

28 November 2023

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Morally, the Wilko family should look at themselves in the mirror

    Nils Pratley
    Why should a holding company be able to insulate itself when employees’ pensions are being hit?
  • Former Wilko chair Lisa Wilkinson appearing before the business and trade select committee in the House of Commons

    Wilko’s former chair tells MPs she was devastated by collapse of retailer

    Lisa Wilkinson says her family’s multimillion-pound fortune was not enough to save the chain

    • Business live
      Lisa Wilkinson ‘devastated’ and ‘sorry’ over collapse of Wilko, as MPs hear ‘weak leadership’ to blame – as it happened

    • ‘Really horrendous’: former worker describes impact of Wilko’s demise

    • Wilko rescue failed because ‘everyone got a little bit greedy’, says HMV owner

3 November 2023

  • A woman walks past closed Wilko branch in Walthamstow, London.

    Former Wilko staff urge MPs to question owners over collapse

    Wilkinson family reportedly took £77m in dividends in decade before retailer’s closure, including £9m since 2019

October 2023

  • Wilko staff Myesha Maynard and Garisha outside a branch in Wembley

    ‘Customers are coming to us crying’: staff mourn as Wilko exits high street

    With the hardware and homeware retailer’s last stores closing, devoted regulars say they will miss it dearly

September 2023

  • A Wilko branch in Walthamstow

    Wilko owed £625m when it collapsed, leaving pension fund £50m short

  • Barbara Ellen

    We shed crocodile tears over our high streets then click online and finish them off

    Barbara Ellen
  • Discount signs and empty shelves inside a Wilko store

    The Range buys Wilko brand in multimillion-pound deal

  • A man passes the closed Wilko store in Barking, east London.

    ‘I feel anger; it never needed to have happened’ – Wilko workers lament closures

  • ‘You could get everything here’: Wilko customers make final shopping trip as closures begin

  • Poundland moves to buy 71 Wilko sites with possible jobs guarantee for staff

  • All 400 Wilko shops to close with loss of more than 12,000 jobs

  • Business live
    Jeremy Hunt says he mustn’t pump extra money into people’s pockets; BoE’s Mann says better to over-tighten interest rates – as it happened

  • John Lewis boss calls for royal commission to save UK high streets

  • Wilko administrators reveal locations of 52 stores to close next week

  • More than 1,300 jobs to go as 52 Wilko stores shut down

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