2016 Is The End Of The Department Store Industry?

88 year old British department store

The last store was closed this weekend.

The asset manager was introduced in March, but no buyer was found.

BHS has been stagnant since the 80s of last century. In Britain, it has long been defeated by cheaper competitors such as Primark. Analysts say that BHS has been unable to cope with fierce competition in the market for many years because of its poor investment, and from ZARA, H&M and so on.

The impact of brand competition has led to the chronic death of BHS over the past 20 years, which means that BHS, a nearly 90 year old retail brand, will disappear.

The last 22 stores closed by BHS will have a great impact on the related areas, where BHS is considered to be the main department store in the nearby towns.

BHS has closed 141 stores in recent weeks, including flagship stores in Oxford street, West London.

BHS is a brand that appears regularly on most of the high streets in the UK. The first store opened in Brixton, southern London in 1928, and will disappear after nearly a century of operation.

A worker named Simon Prager worked in BHS for 16 years. He said, "no one thought a year ago that it would go to this stage. I think that in the last three months, it was more anger.

Now more sadness. "

Before the closure of BHS Walthamstow store in northern London, scattered clothes, empty clothes hangers and some piles of stock were squeezed into the store. The last day, all products were 70 percent off.

A BHS customer described the collapse of the retail giant as "the end of an era".

The closure of BHS will result in the loss of 11000 jobs and the release of 22000 workers' pensions.

Members of the British Parliament believe that the failure of the group was caused by poor management of Philip Green of Dominic Chappell and Topshop boss, and reprimanded them for their failure to ensure their employees' pension plans. The investigation alleged that Philip Gree had extracted large sums of money from BHS but failed to solve the pension gap of 571 million.

It is reported that Philip Gree spent the summer in his luxury yacht without funding to make up for the huge loopholes in the BHS pension fund.

Fast fashion Topshop parent group Arcardia bought BHS from Storehouse PLC in 2000 at 200 million pounds. In March of this year, PhilipGreen, the chairman of Arcardia group, sold BHS to the investment group Retail Acquisitions at a price of 1 pounds, and was taken over by the Dominic Dominic who had announced bankruptcy and had no experience in managing large retail department stores.

Because of the continued downturn in the UK Department store industry, even though Retail Acquisitions is trying to raise funds to maintain BHS's operation, it can not make it return to profitability. Dominic Chappell earlier told the media that it would sell BHS's stores one by one.

BHS has been losing money for many years, and the net loss in fiscal year 2014 has expanded from 19 million 200 thousand pounds in the previous year to 21 million pounds. Analysts believe that the collapse of BHS has nothing to do with the group management's unreasonable allocation of funds to improve the development of enterprises. In the past twenty years, it has failed to follow the pace of innovation, resulting in a serious decline in competitiveness, and consumers gradually become weary of the department store brand.

In the fierce impact of electricity suppliers and fast fashion, the global department store group is facing severe challenges, including Messi department store and Marsha general store.