Homebase issues update as 13 UK stores set to close - full list

Homebase has relaunched its new-look website up of the closure of 13 UK stores this month.

The DIY and plot retailer fell into administration past November, citing weaker user assurance and spending post-pandemic, and the cost of surviving crisis, arsenic the reasons for its losses.

Homebase main enforcement Damian McGloughlin said the past 3 years had been "incredibly challenging" and efforts to rescue its trading show had not been successful.

The retailer made the "difficult decision" to name administrators towards the extremity of 2024, with the illness coming amid reports that banking elephantine Wells Fargo had opted not to widen its lending installation owed to fiscal concerns.

The concatenation aboriginal struck a woody with retail radical CDS Superstores - which owns The Range - for up to 70 of its stores, helping to prevention astir 1,600 jobs.

B&Q besides agreed to instrumentality power of 5 branches arsenic portion of the woody earlier this month, taking implicit sites successful Altrincham successful Greater Manchester, Basingstoke successful Hampshire, Biggleswade successful Bedfordshire, Leamington Spa successful Warwickshire, and Worcester successful Worcestershire.

These stores are expected to beryllium converted into B&Q sites successful the spring, but the aboriginal of astir 49 Homebase stores inactive remains undecided.

New owners CDS person present acceptable its marque caller website unrecorded up of the closure of 13 stores this month, welcoming customers to "the caller chapter" with a immense 40% disconnected sale.

In an update to customers connected its Facebook page, Homebase said: "Homebase.co.uk is NOW LIVE. Explore 1000's of location betterment essentials astatine your fingertips—from decorating and plot supplies to our fashionable kitchens and bathrooms.

"Featuring apical brands similar Dulux, Harris, Crown, Westland and more. Stay tuned for adjacent much breathtaking Homebase updates coming your mode soon."

CDS has said customers buying items connected the Homebase website volition besides beryllium capable to click and cod them astatine much than 200 The Range and Wilko stores crossed the UK.

The website motorboat comes arsenic the pursuing 13 Homebase stores are owed to unopen their doors for bully this month, though the nonstop dates for each are yet to beryllium announced:

• Bradford

• Broadstairs

• Cheltenham

• Colchester Stanway

• Coventry

• Derby Chaddesden

• Gloucester

• Hull Hessle

• London Streatham Vale

• Oban

• Oldbury

• Romford

• Wolverhampton

Closing down income person besides been launched astatine respective UK stores and Homebase workers are being consulted and supported arsenic negotiations continue. CDS has confirmed 9 Homecase sites volition beryllium turned into The Range stores and it plans to unfastened astatine slightest 50 shops successful the adjacent 4 months.

Alex Simpkin, CDS Superstores main executive, said astatine the time: “We've stepped successful pursuing the bittersweet demise of the much-loved Homebase brand, which has had a agelong and antecedently palmy past of helping UK households with their DIY projects and gardening needs, for implicit 45 years.”