A CLOSURE date has now been confirmed for Wilko’s Stourbridge store.
The store in the High Street, which has been operating for more than 25 years, will shut its doors for good on Thursday October 5..
The hardware and furnishings retailer tumbled into administration last month after it came under pressure from weak consumer spending and debts to suppliers.
Its final 111 stores will close in early October as part of the final phase of closures, administrators for PwC said.
The Wilko brand will not disappear entirely from the UK high street after The Range agreed to buy Wilko’s brand, website and intellectual property, with plans to sell the acquired brand in its stores.
Wilko was originally founded by James Kemsey Wilkinson in Leicester in 1930 and employed 12,500 workers before its collapse.
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