Select Fashion is set to close 35 high street stores over the next few weeks.

The struggling retailer collapsed into administration in 2019 and entered into a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) last summer. This is an agreement between a business and its creditors, which allows debts to be paid off over a fixed period of time. The creditors need to approve the CVA first before it can be implemented.

Select has been quietly closing sites over the past few years. This includes branches in Ipswich, Kent, Cwmbran and the Erith Riverside Shopping in London in 2024, and more recently, its shops in Kidderminster and Thornaby were permanently shut earlier this year.

But now, The Sun reports that 35 more locations will pull down the shutters for good by March 15. It is understood Select will have just 48 stores left after the closures have taken place. Before its administration in 2019, the fashion chain had a total of 169 stores. It was later bought out of administration by Genus UK Limited.

Select first entered the British fashion scene in the 1980s and is currently owned by Turkish entrepreneur Cafer Mahiroğlu. But the fashion chain is just one in a long list of retailers that have announced store closures in recent months.

Analysis from the Centre for Retail Research shows 13,479 stores, the equivalent of 37 each day, shut for good in 2024. Homebase confirmed 33 closures for February, after the DIY chain collapsed into administration in November 2024. It was later announced that retail group CDS, owner of The Range, had agreed a deal to snap up around 70 stores. Some stores were also taken over by Sainsbury’s and B&Q, but others will sadly close for good.

Meanwhile, gardening chain Dobbies has announced it will close another shop in February, with its Aylesbury site set to shut for food. Its branch in Northampton will follow on March 2. It comes after Dobbies in Leicester closed on February 14. By the start on next month, Dobbies will have closed 24 branches since last October. WHSmith axed four stores on February 15, while New Look is shutting one branch on February 22 and two more will follow in March. Hollister is also pulling down the shutters to one store on February 28.

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