125 jobs lost as provisional liquidator appointed to card store chain

A TOTAL of 125 jobs are expected to be lost at a chain of greeting card stores after the High Court approved the appointment of a provisional liquidator to the firm.

Birthdays (Ireland) Ltd is to close all its 13 stores because its British parent firm was no longer prepared to support a business that, the court heard, has been haemorrhaging money in recent years due to high rents and falling sales.

Yesterday the company, of Exchequer Place, Custom House Dock, Dublin 1, petitioned the court to have chartered accountant Declan Taite of FGS appointed as provision liquidator.