Which stores have been bought by Poundland and full list of stores closing down

Poundland owner Pepco has agreed to buy up to 71 Wilko stores after the collapse of the popular high street chain.

The company will reopen the sites under the Poundland brand, according to Wilko’s administrators, PwC.

Existing employees will not be automatically transferred to the new stores, but Pepco said it would “prioritise” Wilko workers when recruiting for the new Poundland outlets. It aims to open these shops by the end of the year.

Family-owned Wilko employed 12,500 staff and ran 400 shops before it hired administrators early last month after it came under pressure from weak consumer spending and debts to suppliers.

Although a raft of closures are taking place this week – a process which will accelerate over the next fortnight – administrators had previously struck a deal for fellow discount chain B&M to buy 51 outlets.

PwC said around 3,200 Wilko staff currently work across the sites acquired by B&M and Pepco.

Which Wilko stores have been bought by Poundland?

These are the 71 Wilko stores that are expected to become Poundland shops:

• Aberdare, Wales
• Alfreton, Derbyshire
• Alnwick, Northumberland
• Altrincham, Greater Manchester
• Ammanford, Carmarthenshire
• Ashby, North Lincolnshire
• Barking, London
• Bedminster, Somerset
• Beeston, Nottinghamshire
• Bicester, Oxfordshire
• Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire
• Bletchley, Milton Keynes
• Bolton, Greater Manchester
• Brentwood, Essex
• Brigg, North Lincolnshire
• Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
• Chepstow, Wales
• Coalville, Leicestershire
• Cramlington, Northumberland
• Droitwich, Worcestershire
• Eccles, Greater Manchester
• Edmonton Green, Greater London
• Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
• Ferndown, Dorset
• Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
• Grays, Essex
• Greenock, Inverclyde
• Grimsby, North Lincolnshire
• Havant, Hampshire
• Hayes, Middlesex
• Headingley, West Yorkshire
• Hessle Road – Hull, East Yorkshire
• Hillsborough, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
• Hitchin, Hertfordshire
• Jarrow, South Tyneside
• Killingworth, North Tyneside
• Kimberley, Nottingham
• Lee Circle, Leicester, East Midlands
• Leek, Staffordshire
• Leigh, Greater Manchester
• Lichfield, Staffordshire
• Maidenhead, Berkshire
• Matlock, Derbyshire
• Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
• Nelson, Lancashire
• Northallerton, North Yorkshire
• Orton, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
• Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire
• Peterlee, County Durham
• Pontefract, West Yorkshire
• Pontypool, Wales
• Redhill, Surrey
• Redruth, Cornwall
• Ripley, Derbyshire
• Rugeley, Staffordshire
• Sale, Greater Manchester
• Seaham, County Durham
• Selly Oak, Birmingham, West Midlands
• Shrewsbury Darwin Centre, Shropshire
• South Shields, South Tyneside
• Southport, Lancashire
• Stafford, Staffordshire
• Stamford, Lincolnshire
• Stockport, Greater Manchester
• Thornaby, North Yorkshire
• Wellington, Shropshire
• Wembley, London
• West Ealing, London
• Wombwell, South Yorkshire
• Worcester, Worcestershire
• Worksop, Nottinghamshire

It has not been confirmed which Wilko stores B&M has agreed to buy.

Which Wilko stores are closing?

On 6 September, administrators for Wilko revealed the locations of 52 stores which it was confirmed would close on two dates this week.

These closures will result in 1,016 redundancies, while administrators have also announced hundreds of other job cuts impacting warehouse and support centre staff.

The following 24 branches were set to close on Tuesday 12 September:

• Acton
• Aldershot
• Barking
• Bishop Auckland
• Bletchley FF
• Brownhills
• Camberley
• Cardiff Bay Retail Park
• Falmouth
• Harpurhey
• Irvine
• Liverpool Edge Lane
• Llandudno
• Lowestoft
• Morley
• Nelson
• Port Talbot
• Putney
• Stafford
• Tunbridge Wells
• Wakefield
• Weston-super-Mare
• Westwood Cross
• Winsford

And these 28 shops will close on Thursday 14 September:

• Ashford
• Avonmeads
• Banbury
• Barrow in Furness
• Basildon
• Belle Vale
• Burnley (Relocation)
• Clydebank
• Cortonwood
• Dagenham
• Dewsbury
• Eccles
• Folkestone
• Great Yarmouth
• Hammersmith
• Huddersfield
• Morriston
• New Malden
• North Shields
• Queen Street Cardiff
• Rhyl
• Southampton-West Quay
• St Austell
• Stockport
• Truro
• Uttoxeter
• Walsall
• Woking

A further 124 shops will shut for good next week as the process continues, with the final 222 stores all due to close by early October.

PwC said the firm’s warehouse will shut on Friday, with final support centre workers leaving in early October as operations completely unwind.

Additional reporting from Press Association