Discount retailer Poundland has revealed another wave of store closures over the winter as part of turnaround efforts by the new owners.
A further 14 stores will close down by early February, on top of the 19 already set to shut down over the coming months.
By early next year, the budget chain will have shut more than 100 stores after it kicked off a restructuring programme.
In those stores set to close, clearance sales with reductions of up to 40% have been launched on a wide range of stock.
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Poundland has previously announced another 40 shops that were clearing out goods ahead of closure.
This was in addition to the 57 that had already shut by the end of September as a result of Poundland targeting its least profitable shops.
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It expects the UK chain to have reduced from around 800 shops at the start of the restructuring programme, to between 650 and 700 once the process is complete.
Poundland was sold for £1 to investment firm Gordon Brothers in June.
The company avoided entering administration after a restructuring plan was approved in the High Court in August – days before the company was due to run out of money.
Recovery efforts have since focused on simplifying the business, including cutting stores and by returning to a £1, £2 and £3 grocery pricing structure across all UK shops.
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Darren MacDonald, Poundland’s UK country manager, said the company knows “how disappointing it is when we leave a store, but before we close our doors for a final time, we’re determined to say goodbye by offering even more amazing value to customers”.
“The special reductions, on top of the value we provide in every store, will help us leave locations we’re leaving with pride,” he added.
“And when we close our doors, we look forward to welcoming customers to one of the hundreds of Poundland stores we’ll continue to operate right across the UK.”
List of latest Poundland store closures, and when:
• Lancaster, Lancashire – 19 December
• Northampton Sixfields, Northamptonshire – 31 December
• Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset – 24 December
• Hammersmith, Greater London – 24 December
• Prestatyn, Denbighshire – 31 December
• Faversham, Kent – 6 January
• Liverpool, Merseyside – 15 January
• Yeovil, Somerset – 16 January
• Nottingham Eastpoint, Nottinghamshire – 22 January
• Lymington, Hampshire – 23 January
• Christchurch (47 High Street), Dorset – 23 January
• Bristol Avon Meads, Bristol – 29 January
• Winton, Dorset – 6 February
• Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland – 8 February
List of stores still set to close, and when:
• Christchurch (Meteor Retail Park), Dorset – 5 December
• Arnold, Nottinghamshire – 6 December
• Worthing, West Sussex – 6 December
• Droitwich, Worcestershire – 9 December
• Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland – 13 December
• Oldham, Greater Manchester – 13 December
• Weston Favell, Northamptonshire – 19 December
• Portishead, Somerset – 24 December
• Grantham, Lincolnshire – 24 December
• Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland – 31 December
• Farnham, Surrey – 31 December
• Brighton, East Sussex – 31 December
• Hempstead Valley, Kent – 31 December
• Bexhill, East Sussex – 5 January
• Ponders End, Greater London – 5 January
• Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland – 5 January
• Mitcham, Greater London – 14 January
• Cameron Toll, Edinburgh, Scotland – 20 January
