Online fashion retailer Boohoo is preparing to shut down its operations at a 1.1m sq ft former Arcadia Group warehouse in Daventry, Northamptonshire, owned by Prologis.
Boohoo signed for its lease at the distribution centre in 2021, after Prologis bought the property back from Arcadia’s administrators at Deloitte.
The retailer had taken the space to manage the need for increased capacity following its acquisition of Debenhams and the former Arcadia brands.
The warehouse, on Prologis’s RFI Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal logistics park, has a base floor area of 404,000 sq ft with additional mezzanines and office space.
Boohoo launched a consultation late last year, with some 400 roles thoughts to be affected.
The news comes a month after Boohoo set out plans to close its Wellingborough distribution centre, also in Northamptonshire.
Boohoo opened a US distribution centre in Pennsylvania last year and invested £150m in its existing Sheffield warehouse. It has also retained a distribution centre in Burnley.
A spokesperson for Boohoo Group said: “For the past three years, our Daventry distribution centre has played an important role in Boohoo Group’s UK operation. We would like to thank colleagues for their hard work during this time.
“As our business and customer needs evolve, the group has taken the difficult but necessary decision to close our Daventry operation and divert investment to other UK sites, in order to better serve our customers around the world.”
A spokesperson for Prologis UK said that the business has “been in regular dialogue with Boohoo” regarding the site closure, adding that it has been supporting the retailer with redeploying its impacted workforce by promoting job vacancies in the area.
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