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Heaton Chapel's Littlewoods Butchers has been shortlisted at the Manchester Food and Drink Festival (MFDF) Awards in the Food and Drink Retailer of the Year category. Established in 1964, Littlewoods Butchers supply the public and hospitality trade with local, free range, naturally reared, and … [Read more...]

Stockport’s Will Mellor, Coronation Street bad boy and a star of Strictly’s class of 22, has once again thrown his support behind a campaign to keep Stockport businesses bouncing. A continuation of last year’s successful shop local campaign, One Stockport’s Keep Our Brilliant Businesses … [Read more...]

Pepco Group have agreed a deal with Wilko administrators, PwC, that will see 71 stores reopen as Poundland shops, including the location at Stockport Retail Park. The Wilko store in Stockport was among the first of the retailer's 400 stores announced to close after the chain entered … [Read more...]

Joint administrators, PwC, have announced the closure all Wilko stores still trading by early October 2023, with the decision resulting in the redundancies of over 9,000 staff. Closures had been announced last week for over fifty stores to close, including the Stockport branch, as a buyer … [Read more...]

Stockport's Wilko store will close on Thursday 14th September alongside over 50 other sites nationwide, joint administrators for the retailer, PwC, have announced. Wilko first opened in Stockport in 2017 at Stockport Retail Park (formerly The Peel Centre) in the town centre, and employs around 40 … [Read more...]

Discount retailer B&M has agreed a £13 million deal to take on up to 51 stores from household goods retailer, Wilko, which entered administration last month. Details of the stores B&M is set to take over have not been announced, though they are unlikely to include those in locations where … [Read more...]

Wilko will not be proceeding with redundancies while joint administrators, PwC, consider bids to sell, trade union, GMB, has said. The household goods retailer fell into administration earlier this month after ongoing cash flow challenges. Wilko employs around 12,500 across its 400 stores, head … [Read more...]

Rises in the cost of food have fallen to their lowest since September 2022, according to the latest figures reported by the British Retail Consortium. Overall, Shop Price annual inflation decelerated further to 6.9% in August, down from 7.6% in July and below the 3-month average rate of 7.7% … [Read more...]