A fashion chain has gone into liquidation with signs appearing in shop windows announcing everything must go.
Leading Labels, which stocked brands including Calvin Klein and Ben Sherman, is expected to close all 15 of its remaining stores following the appointment of a liquidator.
It has stores in Evesham and Kidderminster.
Jeremy Bleazard of XL Business Solutions Limited was named as liquidator on May 26, with an official notice published on June 1 in The Gazette.
Stores have displayed closing down sale notices for several weeks, including at the Ipswich branch in April.
The company’s website is now offline, calls to its customer service line go unanswered, and emails bounce back.
A notice posted at the Bolton store in April read: “This store is closed due to unforeseen circumstances. Sorry for any inconvenience.”
A spokesperson for The Market Place, where the Bolton shop was based, said there had been “there’s been some internal difficulties with them”.
The official notice in The Gazette stated: “Notice is hereby given that the following resolutions were passed on May 26, 2026, as a special resolution and an ordinary resolution respectively.
“That the Company be wound up voluntarily and that Jeremy Bleazard of XL Business Solutions Limited be appointed as Liquidator for the purposes of such voluntary winding up.”
Leading Labels positioned itself as one of the UK’s largest multi-brand retailers.
The company had overdue accounts listed on Companies House, which now confirms that it is in liquidation.
The closure of Leading Labels comes less than two weeks after reports that another fashion retailer, Quiz, would shut all of its 37 remaining UK stores.
