General Store shops to remain open despite 'exceptionally difficult trading conditions' - except one

All shops that trade under the General Store brand across Greater Manchester are to remain open despite companies that that operated six of them entering liquidation. However, the group's Salford location is to remain closed.

Notices filed with official public record The Gazette have confirmed that the businesses that operated Deansgate General Store, Media City General Store, Moss Side General Store, Castlefield General Store, Sale Foodhall, Stretford Food Hall and Salford General Store have entered creditors' voluntary liquidation.

The companies are SRG Deansgate, SRG MediaCity, SRG Moss Side, SRG Sale, SRG Castlefield, SRG Stretford and SRG Salford.

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The Manchester Evening News understands that all of the group's stores are to remain open, apart from its Salford location which closed recently.

All seven companies are all registered at 57 Great Ancoats Street, Manchester, and are part of the wider Store Group. The business that runs the Ancoats store is not affected.

Manchester-based Kay Johnson Gee Corporate Recovery is acting as liquidator of the seven companies.

The news comes after the Store Group closed Salford General Store in New Bailey Street towards the end of last month.

In a statement issued to the Manchester Evening News at the time, founder and chief executive Mital Morar said: "After exceptionally difficult trading conditions throughout the past two years, the addition of the latest economic pressures in 2022, including the energy crisis, have led us to implement a major restructure of the business in order to protect jobs and to continue to trade.

"As part of this process we have closed one of our stores.

"We have been