La Senza has this afternoon annouced it is to enter administration. Another big High Street name bites the dust.

Here are the rest fo the major casualties so far:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13977255

Well I hope George and Dave and of course Gordon and Alistair have a lovely Christmas

 

And?

 

Such a High street name I had to google them

 

That explains why they wouldnt sell me a gift voucher for her indoors Christmas when I was in the other day.

 

Er... about the same size as Carpet Right, 160 stores, 2600 staff... sold for £100 million by Theo Paphitis after he turned them around.

 

still never heard of them

 

No I know LOL! I was just letting you know they are a fair size.

 

Really?
They do lovely undies, especially Bras. How very disappointing to see them go
Couldn't find anything on Google. Looks like it has all been removed, unless my connection is bad

 

La Senza is a big name, f1. You just have to ask women.

Shame about their hardships. Hope they continue selling on line, but its not good as seeing with bare eyes before buying. I think that the future generations will become so used to buying everything on line that you will see many people wearing clothes bigger and smaller than their real sizes. Purple will become blue, and red will become pink. People will trust whatever turns up as the result of their on-line transaction. I am happy that I could be dead by then.

 

I know, it was JDM_stig who hadn't heard of them

 

Your a cheery soul

 

La Senza to enter administration

 

You plum I wasn't doubting you, I was just trying to look for them on Google and it kept coming up "Problems loading the page".
It really is a disappointment to me, as I have loads of their undies. Much better than M&S

 

Sorry, thought you meant you couldn't find reference to the story... doh!

 

May be those who haven't heard of La Senza, have just never had a girlfriend or wife to buy sexy underwear for!

 

Or are crossdressers pretending they don't know about it?

 

I can be, if you understand humour with sarcasm.

 

Big name in the soft south, maybe.
Not up here

 

La Senza used to be known as Contessa ...



Mart

 

I haven't been in there for years. The service was always so teeth grindingly slow, I couldn't bear it. Or should that be 'bare' it!

 

prefer La Perla on a woman myself

 

What,s it got to do with them anyway ?

Chip

 

What's wrong with bras going?

Never heard of them btw but I don't get out much

Sorry for staff though.

dl

 

 

Either you have a boyfriend or you one ugly dude.

 

This is all typical late cycle stuff; retailers over-geared as they locked themselves into rents that are upward only and so they can't cope when their revenues drop. i.e. they've effectively taken on too much debt (by committing themselves to these) during the Labour 'boom' times and are now suffering in the downturn. Not sure there's a lot the current government can do except keep walking the tightrope of progressive cuts?

Gordo

 

I'm amazed. In post 13 Lee247 mentioned having loads of La Senza underwear, and four hours later not one request for photos.

 

I loved the scented beads you would get in the bag of a thong. Used to put them in the cars ashtray to make the car smell nice...

 

Beginning of the next cycle IMO.... 2012 is going to be the worst year yet by a long way. The Euro will likely collapse and things are going to get so bad in the UK that I think the coalition will be gone by this time next year and it will be election time again. 3.5 million unemployed, back into recession and government borrowing climbing out of control again.

Will make this year look like a walk in the park. Too many cuts announced too soon coupled with spiralling fuel prices have just destroyed confidence and the Euro zone crisis went critical too soon too whihc has only dampened any flicker of hope.

Happy New Year people

 

Give me chance - I've only just got home.
















So Lee, sweetheart.
How's about those piccies...?