Department store chain Beales appointed KPMG as administrator last week, after 139 years of trading. The local council in Bournemouth, where the retailer’s flagship store and headquarters are based, ...

THE story of Beales began when Bournemouth was a Victorian boomtown – and it has been bound up with the wider history of the resort ever since. But as revealed by the Echo, the closure of Poole ...

Beales falls into administration (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images) PA Images via Getty Images. In 1979 my family moved to Bournemouth.

Beales, which began trading in Bournemouth in 1881 and has 22 shops nationwide, has appointed KMPG after bosses failed to sell the business. It made a loss of £3.1million last year.

Beales, founded in Bournemouth back in 1881, is the third U.K. department store chain in under 10 months to file for administration. Mega chain Debenhams with 166 stores, were the first, filing in ...

SMASH hit Christmas toy Go Go Hamster hits the shelves of a Bournemouth department store later this week despite initial safety fears. Beales of Bournemouth takes delivery of 140 of the hamsters ...

For more than 140 years, Beales has been a familiar name on the high street, having opened its first store on Bournemouth's Old Christchurch Road in 1881.

For more than 140 years, Beales has been a familiar name on the high street, having opened its first store on Bournemouth's ...

A property boss who accused Bournemouth-based department store chain Beales of foolish behaviour is poised to complete a cut-price takeover of the company.

The last of 23 Beales department stores, at Poole's Dolphin Centre, is set to close. ... The department store began trading in Bournemouth in 1881 and went on to have 23 shops.

Beales asks landlords for 70 per cent rent cut. The remaining 24 stores – including its flagship site in Bournemouth – will have rent paid monthly ...