E&Y begins sale of Focus DIY

  Joint administrator at Ernst & Young have revealed the Focus DIY stores that it has agreed to sell.   B&M Homestore has conditionally agreed to acquire 11 stores: • Alloa Retail Park, Alloa, Clackmannanshire • Bathgate Retail Park, Bathgate, West Lothian • Brownhills, West Midlands • Burnley, Lancashire • Coalville, Leicestershire • Cramlington Retail Park, Cramlington, Northumberland • Darlington, County Durham • Dunfermline • Leek, Staffordshire • Baildon Bridge, Shipley, West Yorkshire • Skipton, North Yorkshire   Wickes has conditionally agreed to acquire 13 stores: • Beverley, East Yorkshire • Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire • Burgess Hill, West Sussex • Chesham, Buckinghamshire • Hailsham, Sussex • Madford Retail Park, Hertford • Hinckley, Leicestershire • Maldon, Essex • Nuneaton, Warwickshire • Rushden, Northants • Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent • West Wickham, Kent • Wharton Retail Park, Winsford, Cheshire   Kingfisher, parent company of B&Q, has conditionally agreed to acquire up to 31 stores: • North Seaton Industrial Estate, Ashington, Northumberland • Buxton, Derbyshire • Cardigan, Dyfed, • Chard, Somerset • Consett, County Durham • Devizes, Wiltshire • Great Western Square, Dorchester, Dorset • Brunswick Construction Site in Ebbw Vale, Gwent • Fakenham, Norfolk • Gainsborough, Lincolnshire • Goole, Yorkshire • Harrogate retail park, Harrogate • Cambridge Road retail park, Haverhill, Suffolk • Huntingdon retail park, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire • Kendal, Cumbria • Launceston retail park, Launceston, Cornwall • Leominster, Herefordshire • Riverside retail park, Leven, Fife • Louth, Lincolnshire • Malvern, Worcester • Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire • Beacon Hill retail park, Newark, Nottinghamshire • Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire • Shepton Mallet, Somerset • Skegness, Lincolnshire • Holland Markets, Lincolnshire • Stroud, Gloucestershire • Woodhall Business Park, Sudbury, Suffolk • Forest retail park, Thetford, Norfolk • Uttoxeter retail park, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire • Thorney Leys Park, Witney, Oxfordshire   Ernst & Young yesterday confirmed it plans to shut the chain as it begins a sale of all the stock.   The 175-strong Focus chain collapsed into administration on 5 May after breaching its banking convenants.   annabel.dixon@estatesgazette.com   To access all EGi news stories and commercial property data sign up for a free trial today, or visit the subscription options page to find out more.