Allders

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Allders

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legal form Limited (corporation)
founding 1862
Seat Croydon , UK
Branch retail trade
Website www.allders.com

Allders was the third largest department store in Great Britain, based in Croydon , Great Britain , founded by Joshua Allder in 1862. Until the first bankruptcy in 2005, Allders operated a full-range department store chain with 50 branches.

history

The department store in Croydon, which existed until September 2012, was the founding branch, and later the flagship store (main store ). The Allders department store group, which had grown over many years through its own expansion and acquisitions of other department stores, operated 50 department stores throughout Great Britain, the majority of them as classic department stores in the shopping streets of the inner cities, but also several branches in shopping centers in the outskirts.

Allders was the fourth largest of the British department store chains. The Allders department store group went bankrupt in 2005 and was subsequently dissolved and sold piece by piece.

In the course of the bankruptcy proceedings, 35 of the Allders department stores were taken over and continued to operate by competing companies such as Debenhams , Primark , British Home Stores (BHS) and House of Fraser . The remaining houses that could not find a buyer began clearance sales in February 2005 and were closed until May of the same year, including the large branch on London's Oxford Street , which was later also acquired by Primark. By May 2005, with the exception of Croydon, all Allders properties had been closed or taken over, with the Leeds branch being the last to close.

Allders in 1983

The main house in Croydon was acquired by Harold Tillman, owner of the Jaeger clothing stores, and continued to operate under the Allders name until it closed on September 22, 2012. In terms of sales area (46,000 m²), it was the third largest department store in Great Britain (after Harrods and Selfridges ), and for years had the largest carpet department in Europe. As of June 15, 2012, the company operated under bankruptcy protection under British bankruptcy proceedings. As a result, there was a total evacuation sale. The bankruptcy trustees were unable to find a new investor for the historic but outdated department store and it was closed on September 22, 2012, with the loss of nearly 1,000 jobs.

Locations of former Allders department stores

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