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Pavers acquires Jones Bootmaker as Endless withdraws

London - Fellow footwear retailer Pavers has finally acquired Jones Bootmaker through a pre-pack administration deal, leading to 86 redundancies. The move comes close to a year after Pavers first made a bid for Jones Bootmaker, but lost its bid to private equity firm Endless. It marks the second time in a year that Jones Bootmaker has seen a...

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Fashion retailers who struggled to stay afloat in 2017

London - 2017 was not an easy year for most businesses - especially not for UK retailers. Economical and political uncertainty following the Brexit vote put even more pressure on consumer spending habits and retailers who were unable to execute a winning strategy found themselves in hot water. 42 major retailers went bust over the course of...

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These are the 9 Jones Bootmaker stores which have shut down

London - Jones Bootmaker closed down 9 of its stores this weekend, following a strategic review carried out by the footwear retailer's new owner, Endless. FashionUnited has gathered the 9 stores which closed on the map below. The store closures have been linked to a wider business review, conducted in order to help stabilize the business,...

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UPDATE: Jones Bootmaker closes down nine more stores

London - Jones Bootmakerhas closed down nine additional stores, following a business review carried out by its new owners, private equity firm Endless. The move, first announced by Drapers, sees the struggling footwear retailer further cut down its store portfolio. The decision to close nine more stores was made by Jones Bootmaker new CEO Koray...

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Brantano pulls the plug on online trading

London - Brantano has ceased trading online as of March 27, less than a week after the value footwear retailer was placed into administration. The move sees the retailer's administrators, PricewaterhouseCoopers, pulling Brantano's e-commerce platform offline and replacing its former transactional website with a temporary holding page. The...

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Jones Bootmaker sold in pre-pack administration deal to Endless

London - Jones Bootmaker has been saved from collapsing into administration as the high street chain has been sold through a pre-pack administration deal to Endless. Jones Bootmaker was teetering on the edge of falling into administration last week when the private equity firm came through on the 11th hour and agreed to take over the footwear...

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​Jones Bootmaker poised for administration

London - Now that Brantano has been placed into administration, sister footwear chain Jones Bootmaker is expected to enter administration on Friday as owner Alteri has failed to find a suitable buyer for the footwear retailer. The move would see over 1,100 jobs at risk as the footwear retailer currently employs 1,145 people in close to 100...

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1,086 jobs at risk as Brantano enters administration

Over one thousand jobs are now at risk as Brantano Retail Limited has entered into administration for the second time. Tony Barrell and Mike Jervis from PricewaterhouseCooper were officially appointed as joint administrators of Brantano Wednesday, following reports that Brantano was up for sale. At the point of entering administration Brantano...

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Shoe Zone sets its sights on Brantano

London -Shoe Zone is said to have placed a bid for rival ailing footwear chain Brantano, a week after the retailer's owners, Alteri Investors, filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators. Shoe Zone is one of the final bidders for Brantano and is reportedly up against Edinburgh Woollen Mill in its battle to acquire the ailing footwear...

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Jones Bootmaker and Brantano CEO to step down

UK footwear retailers Jones Bootmaker and Brantano have confirmed that chief executive David Short intends to step down this autumn. In a statement the footwear group said that Short was stepping down in October after completing his task of overseeing the restructuring of the group and creating a “solid platform for growth” following the...

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Macintosh sells off Fashion UK amidst sales decline

Macintosh Retail Group has confirmed the long awaited sale of its Fashion UK division, which includes iconic footwear chains Jones Bootmaker and Brantano. The footwear retailers were sold to British investment company Alteri Partners, a Mayfair based firm established last year aiming to invest "stressed and distressed" retailers. Backed by US...

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High street footwear label Shoon up for sale once more

Footwear label Shoon is reportedly up for sale again, less than one year after the business was sold off to the former directors of Jones Bootmaker. Last January saw industry veterans Ken Bartle and Peter Philipps agree to takeover Shoon from turnaround firm GA Europe. Now news has emerged that the duo, who previously backed shoe retailers Stead...

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