Hundreds of jobs lost at Topshop and Miss Selfridge

Stores have been under threat since the appointment of court-appointed liquidators

Topshop and Topman stores are to shut.

Almost 500 people directly employed at the Topshop and Miss Selfridge stores have lost their jobs after the liquidators failed to get a buyer for their Arcadia group parent, the Mandate trade union has said.

The union said it was told by the liquidators at Deloitte that there is no option but to shut the 14 shops in the Republic because of the extended Covid-19 lockdown and that the permanent redundancies are now inevitable.