Full list of River Island closures

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High thoroughfare retailer River Island has announced the locations of the 33 shops it is to shut.

It confirms Sky News reporting that the covering chain, which trades from astir 230 stores, is to adjacent 33 shops successful a restructuring program which volition beryllium enactment to creditors successful August.

The destiny of different 70 shops depends connected reaching agreements with landlords to slash rents.

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Confirmation of the locations comes aft Sky News revealed the company, which was founded successful 1948 by Bernard Lewis, was moving with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) connected a restructuring plan.

A restructuring program is simply a court-supervised process enabling companies successful fiscal trouble to compromise with creditors, similar landlords, to debar insolvency.

It's unclear however galore jobs are nether menace from a ceremonial rescue deal, though the concern antecedently said: "We regret immoderate occupation losses arsenic a effect of store closures, and we volition effort to support these to a minimum."

Hundreds of jobs could beryllium astatine risk. In total, River Island employs astir 5,500 people.

Closing successful January 2026 are River Island stores in:

Beckton
Bangor Bloomfield
Wrexham
Edinburgh Princes Street
Hereford
Surrey Quays
Didcot
Sutton Coldfield
Aylesbury
Burton-Upon-Trent
Northwich
Taunton
Workington
Falkirk
Cumbernauld
Kirkcaldy
Gloucester
Hartlepool
Brighton
Lisburn
Norwich
Oxford
Poole
Kilmarnock
Hanley
Barnstaple
Grimsby
Leeds Birstall Park
Rochdale