Poundland is due to axe over 100 staff members at its head office in Walsall as its restructuring plan continues. The high street retail giant already announced plans to close 68 locations across the UK, as well as stop online sales forn customers, and frozen and chilled food. Its estate is due to fall from around 800 in June to between 650 and 700 by the end of the restructure.
This includes the closure of its chilled and frozen distribution centres in Darton and Bilston. A Poundland spokesperson said: “We’ve made no secret of the fact that we need to create a simpler and more focused business to get us back on strack after a significant period of underperformance.
“Alongside a reduced number of stores, with withdrawl from categories such as frozen food, and the retirement of our transactional website and rewards app at the beginning of August, we also proposed the removal of central roles at our Walsall CSC and the closures of our Darton and Springvale DCs to help us create a sustainable platform for the future.
“This has involved placing a number of roles at risk of redundancy based at or out of the customer service centre in Walsall and at both Darton and Springvale distribution centres.
“It goes without saying that we have consuted formally with individuals affected by these announcements and that work is now almost complete.
“It’s sincerely regrettable that our plan to resotre the busiess to health involves any potential job losses, but it’s necessary if we’re to achieve our goal of securing the future of thousands of jobs and hundreds of stores in the long term.”
- Ammanford, Wales
- Birmingham Fort Shopping Park, West Midlands
- Cardiff, Wales
- Cramlington, Northumberland
- Leicester, Leicestershire
- Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire
- Port Glasgow, Scotland
- Seaham, County Durham
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- Tunbridge Wells, Kent
- Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Bidston Moss, Merseyside
- Broxburn, Scotland
- Craigavon, Northern Ireland
- Dartmouth, Devon
- East Dulwich, Greater London
- Falmouth, Cornwall
- Hull St Andrew retail park, East Yorkshire
- Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
- Perth, Scotland
- Poole, Dorset
- Sunderland Pallion retail park, Tyne and Wear
- Stafford, Staffordshire
- Thornaby, North Yorkshire
- Worcester, Worcestershire
- Brigg, North Lincolnshire
- Canterbury, Kent
- Coventry Hertford Street, West Midlands
- Newcastle Killingworth Centre, Tyne and Wear
- Kings Heath, West Midlands
- Peterborough Orton Gate shopping centre, Cambridgeshire
- Peterlee, County Durham
- Rainham, Kent
- Salford, Greater Manchester
- Sheldon, West Midlands
- Wells, Somerset
- Whitechapel, Greater London
- Swiss Cottage, Greater London
- Southampton West Quay, Hampshire
- Chiswick, Greater London
- Blackburn, Lancashire
- Cookstown, Northern Ireland
- Erdington, West Midlands
- Kimberley Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Horsham, West Sussex
- Hull Kingston retail park, East Yorkshire
- Kettering, Northamptonshire
- Omagh, Northern Ireland
- Shepherd’s Bush, Greater London
- Southport, Merseyside
- Taunton, Somerset
- Irvine, Scotland
- Trevenson Road, Cornwall
- Portsmouth North End
- Abergavenny
- Havant
- Newport, Shropshire
- Ripley, Derbyshire
- Swanley
- Uttoxeter
- Partick, Glasgow
- Liscard
- Lowestoft
Five more are expected to close, but their locations have not been announced yet.
