A SHOP at Cheshire Oaks under administration has been bought by a rival clothes firm.
Blue Inc has stepped in to buy 20 of the 28 D2 Jeans shops after D2 collapsed last week.
The move is expected to save 200 jobs.
D2 Jeans collapsed after Christmas, with administrators closing 19 of its 47 stores, making 200 staff redundant and jeopardising hundreds more positions.
On Friday, Blue Inc – which already has a store at Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet – bought 20 of the 28 stores still being traded by the administrator BDO, which it will convert to its banner in the coming months.
Fashion retailer Blue Inc, which has been trading for nearly 100 years and whose backers include former Marks & Spencer boss Sir Stuart Rose, already has 171 stores and last year bought 46 Officers Club shops out of administration.
The stores being bought are in Ayr, Coatbridge, Dunfermline, Livingston, St Enoch centre and Fort shopping park in Glasgow, Barnstaple, Bicester, Cambridge, Cheshire Oaks, Sheffield, Gloucester, Newquay, Penzance, Truro, Banbury, King’s Lynn, Ballymena, Portadown and Enniskillen.
