Oddbins
This coverage focuses on Oddbins’ operations and performance within the UK retail landscape. Reporting includes updates on store openings and closures, financial developments, ownership changes, and strategic shifts affecting its position in the wine and spirits sector. Designed for retail professionals, the analysis offers insight into challenges and opportunities relevant to managing specialist and independent retail businesses.
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Jun- 2020 -3 JuneHigh Street
28 Oddbins stores saved from administration by unnamed buyer
Off-license retail chain Oddbins has seen 28 of its stores saved from administration by an unnamed buyer. It comes as Philip Duffy and Matthew Ingram, both of Duff and Phelps, announced the sale of a “substantial part” of the business and assets of Whittalls Wine Merchants and associated companies which…
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Nov- 2019 -18 NovemberComment
Mothercare: what was its formula for failure?
Last week it was announced that Mothercare, a constant of the British high street for over 50 years, had become the latest retail casualty — with all of its 79 stores set to close. But what went wrong for the maternity and baby brand? Mothercare is one of many brands…
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May- 2019 -16 MayAnalysis
The state of the UK high street in 2019
We may only be in the first half of the 2019 but there has already been a continuation of 2018’s disastrous year for the UK high street. In recent weeks we’ve seen Debenhams slide into administration with other household names like fashion retailer Select and off-license group Oddbins both close…
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Feb- 2019 -11 FebruaryHigh Street
18,722 retail jobs lost or at risk since Christmas day
Some 18,722 retail staff, 400 every single day, have either been made redundant or have had their jobs threatened since Christmas day, according to new data from real estate data service Altus. Oddbins, Patisserie Valerie, Greenwoods, Chapelle, tReds and HMV have all entered administration, with the music and film retailer…
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1 FebruaryHigh Street
Oddbins falls into administration
Off licence chain Oddbins has fallen into administration with parent company European Food Brokers (EFB) blaming the deterioration of the high street, Brexit and “economic uncertainty”. Duff & Phelps has been appointed to run the business and help it to find a buyer. Oddbins has 45 outlets across the UK…
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