Claire’s shuts remaining UK stores, over 1,000 jobs lost – report

Claire’s has closed its remaining UK shops, ending the jewellery and accessories chain’s beingness connected British precocious streets aft astir 30 years and putting much than 1,000 jobs astatine risk.

According to sources cited by The Guardian, unit astatine the retailer were told to wide retired remaining banal and instrumentality arsenic the past outlets stopped trading pursuing earlier rounds of closures.

Administrator Kroll confirmed that the full store portfolio has present unopen and that “all store employees person been advised of redundancy”.

The closures lone use to Claire’s standalone stores. They bash not see its 356 concessions, specified arsenic those located successful Asda, oregon the company’s caput office.

The concern entered medication successful January, erstwhile it inactive operated 154 stores.

In August 2025, Modella Capital bought portion of the cognition successful a woody that safeguarded 1,300 jobs. However, 145 stores near retired of that transaction were aboriginal closed.

Additional closures were announced afterwards. Last month, Kroll said a further 15 stores had ceased trading, with the nonaccomplishment of much than 100 jobs.

Talks implicit a imaginable merchantability of the Claire’s marque successful the UK are continuing, with French entrepreneur Julien Jarjoura named arsenic a imaginable buyer.

Even so, the aboriginal of the concern remains unclear. Claire’s UK website is presently suspended, and online income are unavailable.

The UK limb has been nether unit from falling sales, arsenic online competitors, including Amazon, gained crushed and shoppers progressively turned to societal media platforms specified arsenic TikTok.

Claire’s entered the UK marketplace successful 1996 done the acquisition of accessories retailer Bow Jangles.

Its difficulties person besides been linked to bankruptcy filings by its genitor institution successful the US and Canada.

In a study published successful March, Kroll said it did not expect unsecured creditors, including suppliers, landlords and employees, to person repayment.

Those creditors are owed £10.6m ($14.2m).

The study added that Modella, which is owed £5.5m successful secured debt, is expected to retrieve astatine slightest immoderate of that amount.

Separately, Modella is besides moving connected a restructuring of TG Jones, the erstwhile WH Smith business, with arsenic galore arsenic 100 of its 456 stores facing imaginable closure via a projected “cram down” insolvency process.

That restructuring could statesman earlier the antecedently agreed deadline successful precocious June, amid concerns astir the company’s fiscal health.

The closure of Claire’s remaining UK stores is the latest retail setback involving businesses linked to Modella, pursuing developments astatine The Original Factory Shop and Hobbycraft.