More than 350 jobs have been lost at Crawshaw Group after the Yorkshire-based chain of butchers went into administration and shut two-thirds of its stores.
It is the latest high street retailer to go bust after Evans Cycles, House of Fraser, Toys R Us and Maplin, while a string of other well-known names have shut dozens of stores via an insolvency process known as a company voluntary arrangement.
Crawshaw, which was founded in 1954, said it appointed Ernst & Young as administrators on Friday. It shut 35 stores and its distribution centre at Astley, with the loss of 354 jobs.
