Online pains at Blooming Marvellous

By James Thompson

Saturday, 3 January 2009

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The website of Blooming Marvellous, the 14-store upmarket maternity wear retailer, was down last night and sources said it had been offline since 20 December. A store has closed in Chester and sources said that a store in London was not open for business yesterday.

Blooming Marvellous was bought by Arev, the Icelandic retail investor, in August 2007 for about £5m. Arev has also backed retail investments including the shoe chain Jones the Bootmaker and luxury brand Duchamp.

Arev was also an investor in Hardy Amies, the couturier, and the fashion brand Ghost, which both fell into administration in the last three months of 2008. Both chains re-emerged under new owners. In November, some directors left Arev following the failure of its Icelandic backer Kcaj to provide further funding. Blooming Marvellous was unavailable for comment last night

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cannygal wrote:

Thursday, 22 January 2009 at 05:45 pm (UTC)

I have tried calling one of the branches in Bath who advised that the site was to open last week but still nothing. Can someone tell us what is going on and more importantly if and when I will get they money they owe me!

Debbie
Birmingham

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Blooming Marvellous in Adminstration

mraaronspelling wrote:

Thursday, 12 February 2009 at 06:46 pm (UTC)

BM went into administration on 28 Jan 2009. Philip Duffy and David Whitehouse were appointed Joint Administrators of Blooming Marvellous Limited on 29th January 2009. If you placed your order or BM owe you money from before that date you can contact the adminstrators at bloomingmarvellous@mcr.uk.com or by post to: Blooming Marvellous (In Administration)
c/o MCR, 11 St James Square, Manchester, M2 6DN. Any orders placed AFTER 29 January 2009 will be processed as usual.

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