Anyone know what happened to Henderson Jewellers? Was in the Gyle centre yesterday and noticed the shop was completely empty and locked up and the website is showing as "Site closed" with no content.

Looks like they've gone into liquidation

http://www.business7.co.uk/business-...6408-24046729/

Thanks for that link.

I think he had actually said it as a joke a few times before without comment, then it suddenly became a big story, a bit like the Russell Brand-Jonathan Ross radio show which received very few complaints before the Daily Mail story about it nearly a week later.

Another one

http://m.retail-week.com/5057702.article

subscriber only site

Gerald Rather was not even talking about Ratners which although the shops were very tacky sold good quality products, he was making fun of HSamual who Ratners Group had just taken over and indeed at the time sold total crap. Mr Rather was a victim of a vindictive British press who like to knock success. They selectively edited the transcript of the speach and printed joke remarks out of context making it sound like he was taking the piss out of his customers. Ironically after the joke and following hatchet job people were returning perfectly good products to Ratners then buying the same thing across the street at HSamual. Ratners Group was forced to change its name to Signet group and to this day is still the worlds largest jewellery retailer with dozens of different brands around the world.

We have/had an Internacionale in Grays (Thurrock) Essex Have they gone bust?

They have not gone bust as such, they were in a lot of trouble a couple of years ago and were taken over by a turnaround specialist, who bled the company dry and now he has made his money back with a large proffit has put the company into administration. Very similar situation to what happened to Comet a couple of years ago.

Cheers for that Steve. I'll check out our branch when I am next in town.

Conways (came under the Toymaster umbrella) have gone into administration. I think they were a small chain under the Toymaster brand.

http://www.toynews-online.biz/news/r...strator/041543

Bid TV and Price Drop TV?

Yeah just gone apparently.

I bet the presenter who used to be on there, and has moved to Ideal World, is glad he made the move. I wondered why it suddenly seemed to be off air, thought my freeview was on the blink.

Didn't QVC just buy the brands? Or maybe it was IdealHome?

If you listen to the speech here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj9BZz71yQE he actually says that one of his chains, Zales, represents quality, another, H Samuel, represents choice, and another, Watches of Switzerland, represents prosperity. He then goes on to talk about Ratners, and says it's positioned "very downmarket" and doesn't represent prosperity or quality. He goes on to talk about the products Ratners stocks and that's when he says that their decanter set is "total crap".

So he wasn't quoted out of context. The context was that he was explaining why Ratners was so profitable, and one of the reasons was that it sold very cheaply made products.

La Senza has fallen into administration for the second time in two years. La Senza UK previously went into administration in January 2012, closing more than 80 branches.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28109861

I didn't realise they had carried on trading after. Leamington used to have one and I bought my bras from there regularly, I've struggled since they shut to find ones what fit me!

I would have suggested shopping online at La Senza but.....

Anyway Bravissimo might be worth trying

http://www.bravissimo.com/

And last week Jane Norman too

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...inistration-uk

Yeah I've heard mixed reviews about Bravissimo and it's quite expensive £30 for a bra?! And also I applied for a job there last year, got down to the last 3 then turned down

Yes it isn't cheap. Still getting down to the last 3 is good but annoying none the less. Plus I bet the do staff discounts too!

Gather Fat Baz Cafe could shut as well due to the 99p stores prices of cheap breakfast goods!

Superdrug and Boots, So expensive as there is a chemist in supermarkets now.

While they are too big to go bust as they are part of the Arcadia group, Burton seem to be having constant 'fire sales' every week now. Either their buyers have simply bought too much of the wrong stock, or there is something seriously amiss with their business at the moment.