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Richard Gosney

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Anyone know what's happening with Karrimor? The shop in
Manchester has had a clearance sale on now for the last
three weeks or so and no sign of it stopping. I get the
impression that the new owners are just clearing the shelves
of the Karrimor gear to make room for something else and
don't plan to continue the Karrimor label.

Regards, Richard G.
 
Field and Trek have taken over a number of the shops in the South.
John.
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> Anyone know what's happening with Karrimor? The shop in
> Manchester has had a clearance sale on now for the last
> three weeks or so and no sign of it stopping. I get the
> impression that the new owners are just clearing the
> shelves of the Karrimor gear to make room for something
> else and don't plan to continue the Karrimor label.
>
> Regards, Richard G.
 
Richard Gosney <[email protected]> wrote:

>Anyone know what's happening with Karrimor? The shop in
>Manchester has had a clearance sale on now for the last
>three weeks or so and no sign of it stopping. I get the
>impression that the new owners are just clearing the
>shelves of the Karrimor gear to make room for something
>else and don't plan to continue the Karrimor label.
>
Apparently they have gone bust. The Manchester shop is due
to close in the next 7-10 days.
 
In message <[email protected]>,
Chris <proteus1@gmxDOTnet.?.invalid> writes
> Richard Gosney <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Anyone know what's happening with Karrimor? The shop in
>>Manchester has had a clearance sale on now for the last
>>three weeks or so and no sign of it stopping. I get the
>>impression that the new owners are just clearing the
>>shelves of the Karrimor gear to make room for something
>>else and don't plan to continue the Karrimor label.
>>
>Apparently they have gone bust. The Manchester shop is due
>to close in the next 7-10 days.

Technically, they are in receivership so might survive in
some form. The receivers were appointed on 20 February this
year. The source is the Companies House website:

http://ws2info.companieshouse.gov.uk/info/

so may be taken as fairly authoritative.

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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:55:27 +0000, Richard Gosney
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Anyone know what's happening with Karrimor? The shop in
>Manchester has had a clearance sale on now for the last
>three weeks or so and no sign of it stopping. I get the
>impression that the new owners are just clearing the
>shelves of the Karrimor gear to make room for something
>else and don't plan to continue the Karrimor label.

Is that the YHA shop ? Someone advised me they were having a
closing down sale and I needed some bits and pieces so
trotted in one recent Sunday morning, thinking I could
always try one of the other (numerous) outdoor shops in the
vicinity should they be sold out.

Couldn't get parked anywhere nearby for love nor
(reasonable) money, so gave up and bought locally. It's
hardly surprising the world flocks to the Trafford Centre...

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"Chris" <proteus1@gmxDOTnet> wrote in message
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> Richard Gosney <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Anyone know what's happening with Karrimor? The shop in
> >Manchester has had a clearance sale on now for the last
> >three weeks or so and no sign of it stopping. I get the
> >impression that the new owners are just clearing the
> >shelves of the Karrimor gear to make room
for
> >something else and don't plan to continue the
> >Karrimor label.
> >
> Apparently they have gone bust. The Manchester shop is due
> to close in the next 7-10 days.

The YHA Adventure Shop on Maid Marian Way in Nottingham
(which I believe exclusively sells Karrimor gear) is having
a closing down sale too.

My wife and I have picked up some incredible bargains over
the last few days. This is one of the few genuine sales I've
ever come across, with huge reductions on most things,
including boots, rucksacks, Gore-Tex, Paclite, etc. Some of
the more popular sizes are disappearing quickly though.

Pete
 
These are the old YHA stores which were taken over by
Karrimor. Field and Trek have now taken on three of the
stores, including Birmingham and Bristol I think - it will
be quite nice to have a Field & Trek in Brum. The Birmingham
store still has a lot of bargains, particularly Karrimor
rucksacks. The store now seems to be carrying other excess
stock from the group, including a lot of Mountain Equipment
and Craghoppers stuff. Apparently the stores will begin to
carry to usual F&T range within about 4-6 weeks, so the
bargains might carry on for a while yet!
 
> Is that the YHA shop ? Someone advised me they were having
> a closing down sale and I needed some bits and pieces so
> trotted in one recent Sunday morning, thinking I could
> always try one of the other (numerous) outdoor shops in
> the vicinity should they be sold out.

Its rather annoying for me, who supported that shop, I went
in to see what was available and it was the busiest it had
ever been in my knowledge, I felt sickened by these vultures
who had come to take its pickings from the dead shop.

And alas, I couldnt find anything :(

Dave
 
Michael Farthing wrote:
> In message
> <[email protected]>, Chris

>
> Technically, they are in receivership so might survive in
> some form. The receivers were appointed on 20 February
> this year. The source is the Companies House website:
>
> http://ws2info.companieshouse.gov.uk/info/
>
> so may be taken as fairly authoritative.

They have been bought over by Londsdale Sports, the same
company who took over YHA shops last March.

http://www.outdoorsmagic.com/news/article.asp?UAN=2539

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