Brantano UK

Brantano UK LTD
Limited
Industry Retail
Founded 1998
Headquarters Interlink Way West, Bardon, Leicestershire, UK, United Kingdom
Number of locations
 73 stores
64 concessions[1]
Area served
 United Kingdom
Key people
 David Short (CEO)
Products Footwear
Owner Alteri Investors
Number of employees
 1,086[1]
Website www.brantano.co.uk

Brantano (UK) Ltd was a British shoe retailer, owned by Alteri Investors. The company was started in 1998 by the purchase of 47 Shoe City stores from the British Shoe Corporation by the Belgian retailer Brantano Footwear.[2] It was owned by Macintosh Retail Group until it was bought by Alteri in October 2015. The company entered administration in March 2017 and closed its last store in June 2017; 901 people were made redundant.

History

Between 2008 and 2010, Brantano refurbished their stores to bring a new modern style to coincide with the television advertisement airing. In 2009 Brantano introduced a new concept of layout, by laying out merchandise in styles rather than sizes.

In November 2011 Brantano opened their new website include many new features and a new streamlined design.

In 2015 Brantano opened 36 new stores in the UK and planned to expand into 2015-2016 to open many more stores.

The company was purchased along with its sister company Jones Bootmaker by restructuring specialist Alteri Investors in October 2015 for £12 million. In January 2016, Brantano UK filed for administration and was bought back by Alteri.[3]

Alteri filed an intention to appoint administrators for Jones on 15 March 2017,[4] and entered Brantano into administration for a second time on 22 March 2017.[1]

Brands

Brantano has their own brands manufactured by external companies:

Advertising

Brantano UK Ltd launched a television advert which features a fictional psychologist called Anne-Marie Brantano, portrayed as one of the giants of twentieth century psychology along with Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. She is supposed to have discovered the 'sling-back synapse'; an imaginary part of the female brain in the shape of a shoe which reveals what women want from their shoe shopping experience. It also describes the condition "shoe rage". The concept of the campaign was to change the public's perception of Brantano from a discount warehouse, to a high fashion, affordable shoe megastore.

Charity

Brantano UK has been helping to raise money for the baby charity Tommy's since 2008 and have raised £104,751.48[5] so far through its in-store fundraising events.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Brantano: collapse of shoe retailer puts 1,000 jobs at risk". BBC News. 22 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "Brantano History - Brantano UK". Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  3. ↑ Jahshan, Elias (16 March 2017). "Brantano on brink of administration as potential buyers circle Jones Bootmaker". Retail Gazette. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  4. ↑ Jahshan, Elias (15 March 2017). "Jones Bootmaker files notice to appoint administrators". Retail Gazette. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  5. ↑ https://www.brantano.co.uk/about-us/charity-partnership
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