Some 100 jobs, mostly part-time, are to go following the closure of JJB Stores’ operations in Ireland.
The company is to cease trading in Ireland after the liquidator of the company failed to find a buyer for the Irish business.
JJB Sports’ four retail stores and two leisure centres are to shut with immediate effect, with the lost of 100 jobs, mostly part-time.
Kieran Wallace of KPMG, who was appointed as a liquidator to the company by the High Court earlier this month, this afternoon said a buyer could not be found for the business.
It is not clear whether members of JJB Sports’ two gyms will receive any money relating to outstanding membership. Gym members are now creditors of the company, and have been requested by the liquidator to submit a claim to the liquidator by November 30th. “The outcome for creditors is unknown at this time,” a spokesman for the liquidator said this evening.
British firm JJB Sports went into administration earlier this month, though part of the business was sold to rival firm Sports Direct.
Sports Direct bought 20 JJB Sports stores, as well as the brand and website, from the administrators, saving 550 jobs.
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