Administrators have been appointed to UK convenience chain Haldanes Stores, with 23 stores closed and some 600 staff made redundant.
Brendan Guilfoyle and Chris White of The P&A Partnership have been appointed as joint administrators of the chain, and have set up online support for the staff made redundant.
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“Our priority is to provide support for former employees. This new website will give them guidance and advice on entitlements, including how to make claims to the Redundancy Payments Office,” said Guilfoyle today (23 June).
P&A’s website to help staff is www.insolvency4employees.co.uk.
The three of the 26 stores remain open and trading. They are based in Tattershall, Wigton and Crieff.
The administration covers the following stores: Ellon, Crieff, Wick, Kelso, Buckie, Larkhall, Forfar, Tranent, Prestonpans, Carluke, Broxburn, Shawlands, Fraserburgh, Arbroath, Dunbar, Belper, Tattershall, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Royton, Biddulph, Dovercourt, Carterton, Wigton, Ramsey, Pontefract and Pwhlheli.
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By GlobalDataThe CEO of Haldanes, Arthur Harris, has prevoiusly blamed the Co-operative Group for its financial problems, attributing its issues to the Co-op’s unwillingness to renegotiate contracts on the stores, which Haldanes acquired in 2009.
The Co-op responded by saying that that it had “carefully considered a proposal” from Haldanes that “we provide further financial support to help them through their current difficulties. We regrettably decided, however, that given what appeared to be the levels of the issues facing Haldanes, we could not proceed.”
