Figleaves website to shut down

Figleaves workers have been positioned into consultation, the retailer’s head office environment in Welwyn Garden Metropolis will near and operations will transfer to N Brown’s Manchester headquarters. Figleaves’ brand names, which include Panache, Freya and Fantasie, will be moved on to the web site of N Brown stablemate Just Be.

N Brown would not disclose how quite a few associates of workers will be afflicted. The closure of Figleaves was announced final summer season as section of N Brown’s lengthy-phrase system to aim on its 5 core fascias: Jacamo, Just Be, JD Williams, Ambrose Wilson and House Essentials.

The Figleaves model will have a landing webpage on the Just Be web site, and wholesale distribution by way of Asos and Upcoming will go on.

A spokeswoman for N Brown said: “Last yr we shared a refreshed system that provided plans to simplify the buyer proposition and aim on our 5 core brand names, meaning that other brand names are either remaining folded into the core brand names, or shut down.

“Figleaves is remaining folded into Just Be, meaning that the goods will be traded from our head office environment in Manchester and fulfilled by way of our distribution centres in Oldham and Hadfield. We have educated colleagues and an inner consultation has taken put.”