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Mon 01 Jan 2009Land of Leather to close 33 stores
Troubled furniture retailer Land of Leather has announced it is to close 33 stores, including four shops in Ireland.
The Irish stores are based in Cork, Galway and Sligo. A shop in Coleraine in the North is also to shut down, administrators Deloitte said in a statement today.
Today's announcement comes just weeks after the retailer announced it was going into administration after sales declined and it failed to secure new financiing.
Speaking today, Deloitte administrator Lee Manning said the 33 stores concerned employed 95 staff in total with 22 people employed at Irish stores.
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