{"id":716988,"date":"2026-01-24T06:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/716988\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:31:11","slug":"clothing-giant-with-over-100-uk-stores-to-close-branch-in-blow-to-high-street-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/716988\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothing giant with over 100 UK stores to close branch in blow to high street | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major retailer with 100 stores across the country has announced it will be shutting a branch, in a blow to the high street. The Edinburgh Woollen Mill is closing its doors in Dereham, Norfolk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The store now has large signs in the windows alerting customers that it is \u201cclosing down<\/a>\u201d and that \u201call stock must go\u201d. The signs also reveal why the Dereham branch is closing, with smaller writing reading: \u201cSubject to landlord negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The branch opened in 2005 as one of the first stores in the town\u2019s shopping centre. The nearest branches are in Thetford, King\u2019s Lynn, and Great Yarmouth. It follows other brands closing stores in Dereham, including Wilko, CarpetRight, HomeBase, and WHSmith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This closure follows The Edinburgh Woollen Mill’s opening of new stores in Stratford-upon-Avon, Wrexham, Chirk, Perth, Wimbourne, Skipton, Woodbridge, and Ayr in 2025.<\/p>\n

The Edinburgh Woollen Mill is a British clothing retailer founded in 1946, based in Carlisle. The brand claims to be a \u201ccashmere and knitwear specialist\u201d offering men’s and women\u2019s clothing.<\/p>\n

The retailer bought Ponden Homes in 2008, Jane Norman in 2011, Peacocks in 2012, Austin Reed in 2016, and Bonmarche in 2019.<\/p>\n

The company went into administration in 2020 and was bought by an international consortium of investors, alongside Bonmarche and Ponden Homes.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Peacocks was brought out of administration by a senior executive backed by an international consortium of investors, removing it from The Edinburgh Woollen Mill to a sister company.<\/p>\n

As of 2026, The Edinburgh Woollen Mill operates approximately 100 retail stores across the UK and Ireland, focusing on high street locations, tourist spots, and garden centre concessions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major retailer with 100 stores across the country has announced it will be shutting a branch, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,214289,131115,13465,363,214290,4706,16,70455,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-716988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dereham-store-closure","10":"tag-edinburgh-woollen-mill","11":"tag-high-street","12":"tag-retail","13":"tag-retail-administration","14":"tag-store-closures","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-uk-high-street","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115948675969172754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}