Greenwoods store goes into ‘liquidation’
A MENSWEAR store, which was a fixture of the Huddersfield high street, appears to have closed permanently.
Greenwoods, on King Street, was closed on Saturday following a huge sale before Christmas.
A sign in the shop door said: “All outlets of Versatile International Trading Ltd t/a Greenwoods Menswear have now closed for business permanently.”
The sign said the company had voluntarily gone into liquidation.
Regular Greenwoods customer Jaswinder Singh, 66, of Bradley, bought a coat in the sale last week.
Mr Singh, a retired textile worker, said: “I’m very sorry to hear what’s happened. I have been shopping here for years.”
The Examiner reported that Greenwoods had gone into administration in September 2017.
But the chain was snapped up by Versatile International Trading and 40 stores were saved.
The King Street store held a ‘warehouse clearance’ sale before Christmas with up to 70% off items.
Customers, told that ‘everything must go’, stripped the shop’s rails of jackets, jumpers, trousers, shirts and accessories on Christmas Eve.
Greenwoods, which was founded in Bradford in 1860, had been a fixture of Huddersfield town centre since 1950.
At its peak in the 1990s Greenwoods had 200 stores across the UK.
A company called Versatile International
Trading Limited, of Broadstone Mill, Stockport, was listed as ‘active’ on Companies House today.