Fashion Shop Central is closed

  A women's apparel company will close its branch Nelson focus on Richmond, becoming the third

as a retailer to leave the city, in the last month.

Ballentynes ​​Fashion Central on St bridge on 8 End of May with family holiday stores and its

direct customers of the Richmond store on Queen Street

Marketing Manager Michael Ballentyne said they had moved the business from its previous

location at the corner of Trafalgar St, and since he did not have the level of trade they were

received.

Three employees lose their jobs, but most of the staff was on a contract after longtime

manager left last year, and they knew that there is always a possibility.

"We have some of the people in times that does not work as well for them, and they actually

return to work for us because they knew us in trouble.

"They were more than happy to walk you through what could have made in a long-term thing and

that could be a short term thing to help, and it turns out that it was a short term thing."

The movement had the good sense at the time, the store went to a cost to the St bridge

construction law have to pay.

"As a family, which owns the property, you can choose to re-let it. It keeps all options

open."

They had already signed the lease for the building of St. bridge to a new company, but it did

not mean it.

The company has 30 branches throughout the country, and opened his shop in Richmond in the

mid-1990s, and there are about seven years Nelson branch.

It was "seismic changes" to the total retail in the last four or five years, he caused a

"rationalization".

"We are doing OK, but to justify two stores in a relatively small market is difficult. Through

consolidating them in what we hope for most of our customers that shop with us always in

Richmond than before."

Their records showed that most people buy in both places, perhaps a reflection of the size of

the city, he said.

It would not be closing a sale, the company would not be ditching shares, he said.

"That's why we use the term fusion."

This is the third distributor of women to leave the city last month, with K & K Fashions and

Miller's Fashion Club after close.

Single Nelson CEO Cathy Madigan said she felt for the retailer to the top of the St Bridge,

which had a lot to do because of the environment disco and "leftovers" in the morning.

Since these bars were closed during the day, he created an empty pocket there discouraged

pedestrian traffic.

"Many companies, until the upper end of the bridge is St when they leave on deadline, it is a

struggle."

It is disappointing as women fashion stores closed this year, but that does not mean that the

industry was in trouble, she said.

"Women's fashion is probably one of the most important categories in the city of Nelson, then

inevitably, it is the area that it may, if it suffers closures looks.

"Normally, if it's the ebb and flow influenced various categories of retail, but this time he

just seems had the luck of the draw, it was a number of fashion retailers."