Administrators announce job losses at Borders HQ

Nov 30 2009 By Tomy McDonough

More than 30 head office employees of collapsed bookstore chain Borders have lost their jobs.

Joint administrators Phil Duffy, Geoff Bouchier and David Whitehouse of MCR, have announced that a total of 36 employees based at the London HQ have been made redundant.

Mr Duffy said: “Following our appointment as administrators we have undertaken a review of the company’s business and operations in the context of an administration and consequently identified a number of positions that have become redundant.

“This has resulted in the above employee redundancies being made.

“This in no way impacts the business at a store level and I can confirm that no redundancies have been made in-store,” he added.

On Saturday MCR announced closing down sales at all 45 retail outlets of book-store chain Borders (UK). 

Mr Duffy added: “We are now pursuing parallel administration strategies – continuing to seek a purchaser for all or some of the company’s stores.”