Fri, 05 Sep 2025

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 Troubled beauty chain Bodycare to close 32 stores

About 450 jobs will also go after the value chain said it was making losses as costs continue to rise.

* Bodycare, a health and beauty chain with 147 stores across the UK, has gone into administration.
* 32 stores will close immediately, resulting in 450 redundancies among its 1,500 employees.
* The company's administrators cited "challenging times" for high street retailers due to rising costs and fierce competition for consumer spending.
* Bodycare is exploring options, including finding a buyer, while continuing to trade from the majority of its stores.
* Some of the stores set to close include those in Croydon, Edinburgh, Hemel Hempstead, Scunthorpe, and Wrexham.
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