Major outdoor fashion retailer with 170 shops launches ‘everything must go’ sale ahead of closing down busy site --[Reported by Umva mag]

A MAJOR outdoor fashion chain has launched an “everything must go” sale before closing one of its branches. Trespass’ store in the Silverburn shopping centre, in Glasgow, Scotland will be shutting for the final time over the coming weeks. BPMThe Trespass branch in Glasgow’s Silverburn shopping centre will be closing ‘soon’[/caption] The retailer sells ski wear, waterproof jackets, fleeces, festival accessories, walking boots and camping gear. Signs have been put up in the shop window telling passersby that a 60% closing down sale has started. The black and yellow signage reads: “Closing down. Everything must go.” The Sun has contacted Trespass for comment. Other recent closures in the area include Angelique Lamont Bridal and Bridesmaids and popular Glaswegian nightclub The Shed. It is not yet known what will replace the Tresspass store in the Silverburn shopping centre. The Silverburn shopping centre has seen some other major changes in recent months. Prominent brands that have recently opened at the centre, including AllSaints and Polestar. And Mango opened its doors over the summer which further strengthened the fashion offer. Kingpin Bowling is also set to join the line-up later this year, bolstering Silverburn’s leisure offer. We also told how Cinnabon opened a new branch in Silverburn on Friday. David Pierotti, General Manager at Silverburn, said: “We have been working hard to secure brilliant brands that we know people want to see and we’re so pleased that Cinnabon is the latest to join our lineup. “It will complement our existing stores and restaurants, whilst giving people yet another new reason to visit us. “We know that it will prove a massive hit with guests and look forward to the opening.” More Trespass closures Trespass, which runs around 170 UK branches, confirmed last summer it would pull down the shutters on half a dozen branches. Stores shut in Chesterfield and Workington while others in Canterbury and Solihull were also earmarked for closure. In recent weeks, Trespass is closed its store in St Johns Precinct, Liverpool, after signs were placed in the window. It is not the only outdoor clothing retailer to shutter branches across the UK. Go Outdoors closed one of its shops in North Staffordshire in April with locals left gutted. Closing down signs also went up in a Millets store in December last year. It came after the Millets stores in Inverness and Mansfield shut their doors for good. Some retailers have closed a few branches here and there for various reasons, like when a store lease has come to an end. Other examples of one-off rather than widespread closures is when there are changes in the area, like a shopping centre closing. In some cases a shop will shut if there are not enough shoppers in the area, but sometimes it may relocate to another place that’s busier nearby. Some chains have faced tougher conditions though, forcing them to shut dozens of stores, or all of them in the worst case. Why are retailers closing shops? EMPTY shops have become an eyesore on many British high streets and are often symbolic of a town centre’s decline. The Sun’s business editor Ashley Armstrong explains why so many retailers are shutting their doors. In many cases, retailers are shutting stores because they are no longer the money-makers they once were because of the rise of online shopping. Falling store sales and rising staff costs have made it even more expensive for shops to stay open. In some cases, retailers are shutting a store and reopening a new shop at the other end of a high street to reflect how a town has changed. The problem is that when a big shop closes, footfall falls across the local high street, which puts more shops at risk of closing. Retail parks are increasingly popular with shoppers, who want to be able to get easy, free parking at a time when local councils have hiked parking charges in towns. Many retailers including Next and Marks & Spencer have been shutting stores on the high street and taking bigger stores in better-performing retail parks instead. Boss Stuart Machin recently said that when it relocated a tired store in Chesterfield to a new big store in a retail park half a mile away, its sales in the area rose by 103 per cent. In some cases, stores have been shut when a retailer goes bust, as in the case of Wilko, Debenhams Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Paperchase to name a few. What’s increasingly common is when a chain goes bust a rival retailer or private equity firm snaps up the intellectual property rights so they can own the brand and sell it online. They may go on to open a handful of stores if there is customer demand, but there are rarely ever as many stores or in the same places. Do you hav

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Major outdoor fashion retailer with 170 shops launches ‘everything must go’ sale ahead of closing down busy site --[Reported by Umva mag]

A MAJOR outdoor fashion chain has launched an “everything must go” sale before closing one of its branches.

Trespass’ store in the Silverburn shopping centre, in Glasgow, Scotland will be shutting for the final time over the coming weeks.

a trespass store is closing down and everything must go

The Trespass branch in Glasgow’s Silverburn shopping centre will be closing ‘soon’[/caption]

The retailer sells ski wear, waterproof jackets, fleeces, festival accessories, walking boots and camping gear.

Signs have been put up in the shop window telling passersby that a 60% closing down sale has started.

The black and yellow signage reads: “Closing down. Everything must go.”

The Sun has contacted Trespass for comment.

Other recent closures in the area include Angelique Lamont Bridal and Bridesmaids and popular Glaswegian nightclub The Shed.

It is not yet known what will replace the Tresspass store in the Silverburn shopping centre.

The Silverburn shopping centre has seen some other major changes in recent months.

Prominent brands that have recently opened at the centre, including AllSaints and Polestar.

And Mango opened its doors over the summer which further strengthened the fashion offer.

Kingpin Bowling is also set to join the line-up later this year, bolstering Silverburn’s leisure offer.

We also told how Cinnabon opened a new branch in Silverburn on Friday.

David Pierotti, General Manager at Silverburn, said: “We have been working hard to secure brilliant brands that we know people want to see and we’re so pleased that Cinnabon is the latest to join our lineup.

“It will complement our existing stores and restaurants, whilst giving people yet another new reason to visit us.

“We know that it will prove a massive hit with guests and look forward to the opening.”

More Trespass closures

Trespass, which runs around 170 UK branches, confirmed last summer it would pull down the shutters on half a dozen branches.

Stores shut in Chesterfield and Workington while others in Canterbury and Solihull were also earmarked for closure.

In recent weeks, Trespass is closed its store in St Johns Precinct, Liverpool, after signs were placed in the window.

It is not the only outdoor clothing retailer to shutter branches across the UK.

Go Outdoors closed one of its shops in North Staffordshire in April with locals left gutted.

Closing down signs also went up in a Millets store in December last year.

It came after the Millets stores in Inverness and Mansfield shut their doors for good.

Some retailers have closed a few branches here and there for various reasons, like when a store lease has come to an end.

Other examples of one-off rather than widespread closures is when there are changes in the area, like a shopping centre closing.

In some cases a shop will shut if there are not enough shoppers in the area, but sometimes it may relocate to another place that’s busier nearby.

Some chains have faced tougher conditions though, forcing them to shut dozens of stores, or all of them in the worst case.

Why are retailers closing shops?

EMPTY shops have become an eyesore on many British high streets and are often symbolic of a town centre’s decline.

The Sun’s business editor Ashley Armstrong explains why so many retailers are shutting their doors.

In many cases, retailers are shutting stores because they are no longer the money-makers they once were because of the rise of online shopping.

Falling store sales and rising staff costs have made it even more expensive for shops to stay open. In some cases, retailers are shutting a store and reopening a new shop at the other end of a high street to reflect how a town has changed.

The problem is that when a big shop closes, footfall falls across the local high street, which puts more shops at risk of closing.

Retail parks are increasingly popular with shoppers, who want to be able to get easy, free parking at a time when local councils have hiked parking charges in towns.

Many retailers including Next and Marks & Spencer have been shutting stores on the high street and taking bigger stores in better-performing retail parks instead.

Boss Stuart Machin recently said that when it relocated a tired store in Chesterfield to a new big store in a retail park half a mile away, its sales in the area rose by 103 per cent.

In some cases, stores have been shut when a retailer goes bust, as in the case of Wilko, Debenhams Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Paperchase to name a few.

What’s increasingly common is when a chain goes bust a rival retailer or private equity firm snaps up the intellectual property rights so they can own the brand and sell it online.

They may go on to open a handful of stores if there is customer demand, but there are rarely ever as many stores or in the same places.

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