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POTENTIAL bidders for iconic Liverpool brand Lewis’s have just a few hours left to submit bids worth more than £15,000.
The famous store closed last May, when parent company Vergo Retail went into administration.
Metis Partners last month launched a new push to sell the brand names owned by Vergo, including Lewis’s and fellow historic Liverpool retail name Owen Owen.
The initial bid deadline was last week. Now Metis has set a new deadline of 4pm today for “best and final offers for the intangibles linked to Vergo Retail”.
No bids below £15,000 for the brands will be accepted.
Lewis’s was opened in 1856 by David Lewis.
In 1991, it was bought by Owen Owen – itself founded in Liverpool in 1868. In 2005, the Owen Owen group was bought by David Thompson. That group went into administration in 2007, but was then taken over by Mr Thompson’s Vergo Retail.
