Apologies if this is old news but Yeomans apparently went in to administration last Wednesday. I dropped in to my local branch today to fund that they're having a closing down sale. According to the staff, only around 20 stores nationwide are planned to be kept open!
Edited to avoid confusion, and to include corrected information - Yeomans are not closing down, the business has been bought outright now including all 84 stores, and the 435 employees transferred across as part of the deal - full info at http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/yorkshire/70912-/
OMG that's awful. I would have thought in the current climate that companies such as Yeomans would have found it easier to keep going. Aren't more people choosing to go camping and won't they need equipment to take with them?
I hope that rochford6 is right and that the staff just haven't been told yet about the new deal. Yeomans is my nearest camping shop & useful for those bits'n'pieces that tend to be forgotten. They also have a reasonable range of tents out on display every year.
the one in our local shopping mall was already closed. don't think it could put up with having Argos home bargains poundland AND the pine valley outlet store all in the same centre with mountain warehouse within a 5 min walk too.
Our high street branch closed a few months back. I,m sure that they've struggled to compete with the warehouse-style of Go Outdoors (I am really growing to dislike that place) and the plethora of internet sites.
As mentioned above they have done a pre pack deal to save the business and jobs.
The new company was formed on 04/05/2012 and can easily be traced form the details on the web. The old owner company formed 21/10/1939 is shown on Companies House as in a voluntary arrangement.
I think their recent advertising methods caused confusion as the company is definately continuing.