All Bonmarché articles
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Prospect AnalysisBonmarché (Overview)
Bonmarché is one of the UK’s largest value womenswear retailers, with total sales of £186m in 2017/18. Recent times have proved tough, however, with sales declining and profits under pressure even ahead of the pandemic.
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Bonmarché (Financials)
Bonmarché has been under intense pressure over the past couple of years and overall sales dipped 2.1% to £186.0m over the year to end-March 2018.
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Bonmarché (SWOT)
Bonmarché was placed into administration towards the end of 2020.
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Bonmarché (Strategy)
Bonmarché is one of the UK’s largest value womenswear retailers, targeting the fast-growing over-50s segment of the population.
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Bonmarché (People)
A high level of management churn has accompanied the retailer’s two recent spells in administration.
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Ecommerce at Bonmarché
Bonmarché has gradually been reinventing itself as a multichannel business, but progress has been slow and fraught with problems.
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Supply chain at Bonmarché
Bonmarché was placed into administration towards the end of 2020.
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Customer and marketing at Bonmarché
Bonmarché is a value womenswear chain aimed at the over-50s customer.
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Stores at Bonmarché
Operated 325 stores, comprising 275 or so standalone stores and approaching 50 concessions, in mid-2018.
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Technology strategy at Bonmarché
Bonmarché has had a business change programme in place since the end of 2015 in order to address years of underinvestment in its systems.
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Bonmarché (Outlook)
Value-fashion retailer Bonmarché collapsed into administration for the second time in just over a year in December 2020 as the crisis on the high street continued to escalate.
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Bonmarché collapses into administration in grim week for retail
Fashion retailer Bonmarché has plunged into administration, adding to a grim toll of retail collapses this week.
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Edinburgh Woollen Mill adds pandemic clauses to new Bonmarché leases
Edinburgh Woollen Mill is inserting pandemic clauses into new leases it is signing with landlords on Bonmarche stores after it bought the retailer out of administration.
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Peacocks set to buy Bonmarché out of administration
Peacocks is poised to buy Bonmarché out of administration after being identified as the peferred bidder for the embattled business.
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Bonmarché tumbles into administration placing thousands of jobs at risk
Bonmarché has tumbled into administration, with its boss blaming “a period of historic difficulty” on the high street for its demise.
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Bonmarché set to delist as second-largest shareholder sells up
Bonmarché is on track to be taken private after Philip Day convinced the retailer’s last major investors to sell its stake.
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Bonmarché management sell stakes to Day
Bonmarché’s management have sold their shares in the business to Philip Day, just weeks after telling shareholders to ignore the entrepreneur’s offer.
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Bonmarché shareholder sells stake to Day
One of Bonmarché’s biggest shareholders has sold its stake to Philip Day in a move that increases the retail billionaire’s chances of gaining control of the business.
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Day turns screw on Bonmarché by imposing offer deadline
Philip Day, owner of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, has put a deadline on his his offer to buy Bonmarché over concerns about its ability to operate as a going concern.
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Bonmarché shareholder ‘disgusted’ by Day bid U-turn
One of Bonmarché’s largest shareholders has lashed out over the fashion retailer’s U-turn on a £5.7m takeover bid by billionaire Philip Day.
